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The future looks bright for the lady pirates. They will be returning 7 of the 9 starters next season. Both of the pitchers will be returning and a strong incoming Freshman class that will fill in the open spots. The program is going to have a good but serious problem with having a ton of talent and not enough positions on the roster. They really need to look into having a reserve/freshman team and start developing the girls when there Freshman and soph. so there game ready when they are juniors. The errors this year is what cost them in every game that they lost, The fundamental defense has been horrible for the last few years. The days of relaying on a stud pitcher to get you to the state level is over since they moved the mound back. You have to be able to play error free softball if you want an elite program. The hitting was great this year and will only get better next year. All in all a good year. Looking forward to the future.............

I agree, the future looks bright. IMO alot of the errors were due to players playing out of position. I'm not placing blame because I don't think the coach had any other options with the players he had this year. I think next year with a couple of freshmen coming into the program that are very very good infielders everyone can be moved back to their natural positions, and the defense will be solid. Next year is the first of the years everyone has been waiting on, this group and the ones to follow have had a tremendous amount of success. Should be an exciting number of years!!