Let the Softball playoffs begin!

[RBARKER]

Here is the last poll before the playoffs. Should be interesting this year. Good luck to all the teams in their quest for a title.


1 Bridge City
2 Splendora
3 Rockdale
4 Barbers Hill
5 Liberty Hill
6 Huntington
7 Orange Grove
8 Van
9 Borger
10 Marion
11 Midland Greenwood
12 Raymondville
13 Columbia
14 West
15 Shepherd
16 Needville
17 Goliad
18 Monahans
19 Bellville
20 Snyder


The top is the hot spot in 3A after Splendora returned the favor and beat top ranked Barbers Hill 1-0 last week. Splendora and Barbers Hill will play again. Elsewhere the Marion Bulldogs are back to back district champs, 9-0 in district, 18-5 overall. Monahans beat Midland Greenwood 8-1 Meanwhile in district 31-3a, Orange Grove has clinched the title two weeks ago, and sits at 7-0, with 1 district game left. Orange Grove blasted San Diego 15-0 and beat Regional qualifier Falfurrias 5-0, recording their 3rd straight district shutout. So far this year OG has scored 81 runs in district and allowed only 7, none the 2nd half through. Junior pitcher Jackie Darnstaedt is a perfect 7-0 in district with 52 strikeouts in 37 district innings and an ERA of .95, overall she has 118 strikeouts in 109 innings. Offensively, Darnstaedt leads south Texas in stolen bases,26, runs scored,37, and is batting .556, with 35 hits, which includes 2 doubles and a homerun with 10 rbis in the lead off spot. Sophomore Kaleigh Boening leads all of south Texas, and possibly the state with 9 homeruns(6 of these have cleared the fence 200feet and beyond), 30 rbis , 4 doubles, 4 triples, 12 stolen bases, has scored 25 runs , batting average .435, with a slugging percentage of 1065%. And she has been intentionally walked 5 times. In district 30-3a Goliad has clinched the district title as they are 7-0 in district and 14-5 overall, Sinton will finish second with 2 district losses to Goliad. fully, Van lost to Canton 3 - 0 then Van's Cara Hulme struck out 14 through five innings en route to her 21st win and the Lady Vandals' 24th of the season. Trish Crocker went 3-for-3 at the plate with a double and a fifth-inning solo home run. Jasper beat Shepherd 3-0 to drop Shepherd to 8-1 in district 22 3-A. Sealy went 1-1 loss to Columbus 6-5 beat Rice 9-1. Katie Maddox tossed a two-hit shutout at Center, and Brittany Baker drove in a couple of runs to pace the offense for Spring Hill as the Lady Panthers clinched at least a tie for the District 16-3A title with a 3-0 win over the Lady Roughriders. Whitney Landwermeyer tossed a complete game six-hitter and Canton erupted for six runs in the first frame en route to the victory over the defending state champions.

[Brahma73]

Polls. What a joke.

[GOFOR2]

Like in any other poll, there will always be teams on these things that have no business on them, because they are a matter of opinion or regional equity. The games must still be played on the field. The only poll that really matters is the one that seeds state qualifiers.

[donjuan]

and there are also teams in the bottom 10 that should be ranked in the top 10 - polls don't matter though - in the playoffs, you have to prove it on the field

[Ray_BearKat]

is this a personal poll or is this from a website?

[Old Cardinal]

This is a poll by the Texas High School Girls Softball Coaches Association.
I think that polls are just opinions but are just one method of trying to determine how teams are doing across the state.
It's not something of paramount importance, but it is interesting as to how some teams have won enough games against , say 4As and 5As that someone sees their efforts as commendable. It looks to me that Region I, II, IV each have several superior teams this year and Region III mainly because of the huge select team trained programs have a half dozen to a dozen that will just have to eliminate themselves down to one. The greater Houston area select team training format is phenomenal. Recently one the 5A HS teams won the top National tournment. held out west.

Will the 10 top teams fare better that the next ten? Probably not, all it takes is a team to have a bad day at the plate--not placing the ball in the open space and not grouping all their hits in one or two innings and they are beat! It take a lot of luck and good fortune to move up the ladder.

[Ranger Mom]

Greenwood has a bye, so hopefully our pitcher will be able to get her geometry grade pulled up and will be able to play!

[GOFOR2]

Originally posted by Ranger Mom
Greenwood has a bye, so hopefully our pitcher will be able to get her geometry grade pulled up and will be able to play!

oh crap! that would be nice.