Episode 6- ACC softball starting to take shape

ACC in RPI

VT- 5 SOS 7

Clemson 14 SOS 16

Duke- 20 SOS 136

FSU- 25

UVA- 40

UL-41

GT 42

NC St- 57

ND-61

UNC- 68

Virginia Tech (18-3-1, 6-0) vs Louisville (16-8, 0-3)

VT #3 in country with 44 HR’s

• Swept Louisville IN Louisville
• Louisville coming off of an impressive W vs Arizona on Tuesday of last week
• 5-3 victory, couple HR’s from Vanessa Miller and Bailee Richardson
• Alyssa Zabala went 7 complete, scattered 3 runs, 5 k’s, 11GB’s

Game 1 (DH on Saturday)

• VT 11-1
• Lindsay Grein in the circle, just 1 hit 0 ER in 5IP
• Alyssa Zabala (10-2) only made it 1.2 IP… 
• Surprising no HR’s or xtra base hits w/ 11 hits, showing VT can win in other ways

Game 2 10 innings! -- crazy how same teams can play, same day, and turn around and a completely diff game

• 5-2 VT
• All VT runs were from HR’s
• solos by Bre Peck, Emma Ritter & 3run shot by Cori McMillan in top 10th to go ahead
• Mazzarone  started- 5.1 IP, 4h, 2 r (none earned)
• Lemley in relief went 4.2-- 0 ER, 0 BB & 11 K’s
• Louisville didn’t score an earned run on the day, putting pressure on defense to make mistakes, but have to find some ownership of scoring their own runs
• VT committed 2 errors in each game

Game 3

• 4-3 VT
• Late inning comeback run from Louisville, cut short
• Scored all 3 ER’s off Lemly in her relief in the 6&7th but still came up one run short
• VT threw Grein, Mazzarone and Lemley
• Huge advantage to be able to pitch by committee in game 3

UNC (19-4, 2-1)  vs Virginia (15-7, 3-3)

• UNC’s Sanaa Thompson .557 and Alex Coleman .556 #1 &#2 in country in BA
• .400 team BA is #2 in country behind Texas at .401
• #1 in country in SB at 75 (2nd place is IU at 62)
• Virginia’s Madison Harris is #4 in the country in ERA with a .31 earned run average

Game 1, 0-3 Virginia

• Eden Bigham continues to show us she is the real deal
• 7IP, 3BB, 6K’s 0 runs, against the top offensive team coming into the weekend
• UVA offense same names leading the way Jade Hylton and Leah Boggs

Game 2, 4-1 UNC (DH)

• Alex Coleman, Sanaa Thompson and Abby Settlemyer with multi hit games
• Lead off Coleman, as she goes this team goes. 
• UVA pitch by committee
• UNC’s Kenna Raye Dark, faced just 3 above the minimum-- not overpowering, no strikeouts or walks--she lets teams put it in play and if defense is solid behind her she can put her team in a position to win. 

Game 3 (DH) 6-1

• UNC’s offense opened up- Alex Colman 2-3, HR’s by Sanna Thompson and Autumn Owen
• Eden Bigham did get the start, gave up 6 BB’s 
• Britton Rogers looked solid for UNC, i think fatigue started to be an issues in late innings saw BB’s go up and had to be relieved in the 7th

UNC’s defense looked solid

NC State (14-8, 1-5) vs GT (18-7, 6-0)

-GT #2 in country with 48 HR’s

-Matched last season's HR total (48 HR’s in 53 games), current 48 HR’s in 25 games.

-GT didn’t commit an error on the weekend

-T3 in country in double plays with 15- defense secures championships

Game 1, 4-1 GT 11 innings

• GT Sophia Voyles looked great in the circle
• No hitter until the 7th, and Taylor Ensley hit solo shot to tie it
• GT defense was big this game, 0 errors, closing doors of potential rallies
• NC State 4 errors
• Inscoe and Weixleman held their own in the circle, but the depth of the pitching is concerning
• But both teams showed fight

Game 2 , 8-1, GT

GT

• Mal Black 5 rbi, including a Grand Slam
• Neleman and Dennis combine for 1 run, 2 hits -- We like this combo

Game 3, 10-2, 5inn GT

• GT timely hitting- 6 players with RBI’s, 4 with 2 RBIs
• Sophia Voyles started, only made through 2 innings- gave up 2 runs
• Chandler Dennis coming in relief again, 1h 0 runs--looking really good in this relief role

Clemson (17-6) had Tenn (L), and a DH with Minnesota this week (split w/ Minn), W’s vs Mercer, Longwood, Fordham

Vs Tenn, 1-2

• Cagle went 9 IP, 10 k’s, 
• 9th inning 2 out BB and then a double for Tenn to take the lead
• Clemson left 7 runners on
• Depth on Clemson, no pinch hitters and DH JoJo Hyatt had only gotten 1 hit on the season coming into this game (1-23)
• 3rd time Clemson has lost by 1 run to Tenn

Vs Minn split - G1, 3-5 (9inning) G2, 3-1

• My big take away…is Clemson pressing, example-
• Game 1, Bottom of 9th down by 2 w/ runner on 1st and 1 out
• Clark tries to sneaky bunt her way on and is thrown out
• Game 2, - bottom of 7th, runner on, 1 out
• Clark hits walk off HR
• Go on to W 3 more outsourcing opponents 28-3

Duke 2 (19-1, 3-0)  wins vs Elon & SDSU DH

• Still only the 1 loss of the year, coming in their 1st game this season vs Oklahoma
• 14 shutouts on the season, has not allowed a single run in the month of march
• 159-15, .73 ERA, .980 field %, 
• Jala Wright #5 in country w/ .32 ERA
• Cassidy Curd still #3 in the country for strikeouts per 7 innings- 11.7
• Team ERA .73 top in the country
• .359 BA 5th in country
• .980 field % 11th in country/top in ACC

FSU (15-5)

• 4-1 on the weekend, 2 W’s over Purdue, W Michigan and FGCU
• Amaya Ross is #4 in the country for runs scored per game with 1.45
• Playing from behind
• Vs Purdue, Purdue put 3 runs T1
• Down 3-0 until scoring 1 in the 6th in Loss vs FGCU
• Vs Purdue, down 6-1 after 1st (went on to score 15 runs and win 15-9)
• Vs FGCU down 4-0 after 1st (went on to score 13 and win 13-6)
• From this past weekend- team #s
• Makenna Reid- 2-0 on the weekend in Fort Myers
• 18 for 19 on stolen bases
• Finding ways to get in scoring position other than by hits…
• Always been a solid base running team
• 10 HRs on the weekend 
• 43 runs scored
• Royalty leads team in IP with 37.1 and has given up 21 runs but only 11 earned
• FSU pitching by the numbers…. Team totals
• FSU- 130IP, 125 H, 90 R, 61 BBs, 100 Ks
• Duke- 125IP, 66 H, 15 R, 29 BBs, 149 Ks
• Duke has given up ½ the amount of hits, ⅙ the amount of runs, and ½ the amount of BBs, while having…. 50% ?? more strikeouts than FSU
• Clemson (3 more games played than the others)- 157 IP, 139 H, 58 Rs, 35 BBs, 140 Ks
• Clemson has also given up a lot of hits, almost 1 hit an inning but has given up ½ the runs and ½ the walks while adding another 40% more strikeouts than FSU

Pitt (8-14)

• Also played in the FGCU tournament alongside Florida State but the two teams did not play against each other
• Lost to Purdue, lost to Western Michigan on Friday; came back to win against both of those teams on Saturday, then lost to FGCU on Sunday
• Looking for consistency
• Cameron Compson- 3 for 3 with 3 HRs against Purdue
• Grandslam, 1 run HR, 2 run HR (7RBI)

Syracuse

• Last played against Duke on March 3; played 8 days later against Le Moyne & Norfolk state (yesterday) and run ruled both, also play another double header today against Norfolk State and Quinnipiac 
• Interesting scheduling
• Rebecca Clyde looking good for the Orange; a couple HRs and several RBIs yesterday
• Taylor Posner also with a long ball and a few RBI on a timely single late in the game put the run rule into effect…
• Syracuse outscored opponents 20-1 in the first 2 games of their tournament in Norfolk

BC

• A lot of scheduling mishaps for the Eagles last week, 3 of their games ended up getting canceled, they beat George Washington University on Tuesday
• Split with Maryland, lost game 2 in extras
• Good showing against B1G
• Abby Dunning still showing off in the circle
• Nicole Giery looking good for BC offense

ND

• Karina Gaskins holds the top spot for on base percentage in the country with a .654 percentage of getting on base
• ACC holds 3 of the 5 top spots for OBP
• Karina Gaskins makes Notre Dame history with the most walks in a career with 121, also hit a HR this weekend
• 30 bbs this season for Gaskins, the next highest on the team is 10 (Kronenberger) 
• Went 4 and 1 on the weekend in West Virginia
• Beat Indiana State twice, Marshall, and Ball State and also lost a game to Ball State
• Jane Kronenberger hit a few HRs on the weekend 
• Addison Amaral had some timely hits as well on the weekend securing a run rule against Ball State

Looking ahead

Midweeks

• Wednesday
• FSU vs Bama 
• GT @ Georgia

Conference

• Duke @ FSU
• UNC @ Clemson
• ND @ GT
• Syracuse @ Virginia
• Pitt @ VT
• BC, Louisville, NC State OOC