Pitt Softball Ranked

[Consultant Panther]

Pitt Softball ‏@Pitt_SB 2m2 minutes ago
What a day! For the 1st time in program history, your Panthers are ranked! #H2P USA Today/NFCA:

http://ESPN.com/USA Softball:

NCAA Softball, NFCA, USA Softball and Pitt Athletics

 

[Nish67]

Wow, that's great news!

 

[goalieman]

Nice start !

 

[Pantherguy4]

FANTASTIC!!!!

 

[ThePanthers]

Fantastic start. Took my kids to a few softball and baseball games last year. Great time. Can't wait to take them again this year.

 

[Del Ray Panther]

Nice!!......H2P!

 

[Pantherguy4]

This is great!!! HAIL TO PITT!!!!

 

[CrazyPaco]

Pitt up to #19 in the latest coaches' poll (with one #1 vote...I wonder who did that?).

https://nfca.org/index.php?option=c...-division-i-coaches-poll&catid=109&Itemid=149

FSU #1
Pitt #19
ND ORV

ACC not a great softball conference, but did beat the Big Ten in the ACC-Big Ten Softball Challenge. It has some work to do to catch up to the rep of ACC baseball.

 

[Piranha]

Very Impressive

 

[Nish67]

As a bit of background, Coach Aprile was a pitcher/outfielder on the great U.S. national teams headlined by Jenny Finch.

 

[Pantherguy4]

As a bit of background, Coach Aprile was a pitcher/outfielder on the great U.S. national teams headlined by Jenny Finch.

Wow! I did not know that! Hail to Pitt!

 

[CrazyPaco]

As a bit of background, Coach Aprile was a pitcher/outfielder on the great U.S. national teams headlined by Jenny Finch.

I don't know what her current contract is, but Pitt may need to take a look at it at the end of the season. She certainly has to be making herself into a hot commodity.

 

[Nish67]

Sorry, on my phone and I cut myself off. Wanted to add that Coach has a great background to attract and develop talent. Many of our best players have been from California but, with our recent success, she's been able to get more local talent in Ohio and Pennsylvania including current freshman Hannah Edwards who was ranked #7 nationally. We're in good/great hands!

 

[Pantherguy4]

Sorry, on my phone and I cut myself off. Wanted to add that Coach has a great background to attract and develop talent. Many of our best players have been from California but, with our recent success, she's been able to get more local talent in Ohio and Pennsylvania including current freshman Hannah Edwards who was ranked #7 nationally. We're in good/great hands!

EXCELLENT NEWS!

 

[mike412]

Edwards was ranked #7 by one service but between 80 and 100 by two others. Another frosh, Connor McGaffic, actually was ranked higher by one.

I think the key to the team is going to be pitching. Harris throws 3 to 5 mph harder than she did as a frosh. Or at least it looked that way on Periscope. The frosh pitcher, Brittany Knight, started great. In the first six games, she was 4-0 with a zero ERA. Against Nebraska, she gave up two runs in the 1st, but then settled down and shut them down the next 5 innings. Then she needed help from Harris coming from the bullpen in the 7th. In her next start, she got hit hard by Northwestern and Harris again had to come in from the bullpen.

By the way, a lot of the weekend games are on Periscope. I think it is the father of soph pitcher Sarah Dawson who videos them. Not great weather in Tallahassee, but a lot warmer than Massachusetts.

 

[CrazyPaco]

Edwards was ranked #7 by one service but between 80 and 100 by two others. Another frosh, Connor McGaffic, actually was ranked higher by one.

I think the key to the team is going to be pitching. Harris throws 3 to 5 mph harder than she did as a frosh. Or at least it looked that way on Periscope. The frosh pitcher, Brittany Knight, started great. In the first six games, she was 4-0 with a zero ERA. Against Nebraska, she gave up two runs in the 1st, but then settled down and shut them down the next 5 innings. Then she needed help from Harris coming from the bullpen in the 7th. In her next start, she got hit hard by Northwestern and Harris again had to come in from the bullpen.

By the way, a lot of the weekend games are on Periscope. I think it is the father of soph pitcher Sarah Dawson who videos them. Not great weather in Tallahassee, but a lot warmer than Massachusetts.

If they aren't on ACC Extra, please link the periscope streams if you can and you think about it.

 

[Bethlehemjohn]

ACC beat Big 10 19-13 this weekend. They aren't as good as SEC or Pac 12, bit can hang with any other conference.

 

[mike412]

If they aren't on ACC Extra, please link the periscope streams if you can and you think about it.

Just subscribe to Donald Dawson on Periscope and allow the app to give you notifications and you will get a message every time he is broadcasting a game.

 

[Joe the Panther Fan]

A lot of times the games are available on the web site of the school hosting the event. For instance the Pitt web site has links to live video for all of the five games this weekend that sends you to the Troy web site.