A Sea Of Red

The games will now be played Thursday and Friday, instad of Friday and Saturday. I will miss thursday games.

We get first 2 batters on 2nd and 3rd. And not score. 2 strike outs and a pop up to 3B.

Top of 5, Delaware leads 1.0 on a home run. LU has left runners on base every inning. Cannot get a clutch hit.

LU scores 2 in bottom of 5th, to win 2-1. DiMartino retires last 5 batters, 3 on Ks to get save. Cassidy goes 5 1/3 to get win. LU pitchers had 8 Ks on the day.

5th inning. LU 5 Delaware St 0

LU wins 6-0. DiMartino throws 1 hitter with 8 ks
Only hit was bunt single. Only 1 ball hit out of infield. LU had 11 hits
Robertson and McFarland had 2 run double for LU.

LU 2 central Michigan 0, 3rf inning. Robertson and Zavodny have RBI single

3_3. 7th inning. Amber Bishop HR top of 7 to tie

Extra innings

LU wins 4-3 in 9 innings. Zavodny triples in Autumn Bishop.

Let me preface this by saying i'm not as well versed in softball as the other 3 major sports but it would seem to be a great start to the year at 8 and 1. Most of them should be wins so far but it looks like heavy challenges coming up the next couple weeks.

Where is the best place to track rpi for college softball?

8-1 is a great start, but California trip looms big. All our opponents out there are better than anyone we have played to this point. As for tracking RPI, google NCAA D 1 softball. Click on NCAA website for softball. There is a link that says rankings, click on that and you should find RPI standings.


DiMartino pitched 10.2 innings today, allowed only 2 hits, 2 walks and had 17 Ks, Engler pitched well, she gave up 2 runs with 2 outs, after allowing a hit on an 0-2 pitch with 2 out and none on.

Gutsy effort by Julia! After CMU put a monkey wrench in what had been her nearly perfect season by roughing her up Thursday, she bounces back with 2 wins, including a dominant 3 plus innings of relief against the Chippawas.

Whats a realistic record next week

I would say 2-3 would be realistic.

3-2, But I can see 4-1 if we're take our A game out there in all facets of softball.

Should beat San Diego State and UC Davis. We have a good shot at UNC but to go 4-1 we would have to beat Arizona State (Only 1 loss to Tennessee) or UCLA (undefeated)

There were lot of upsets this past weekend, Oklahoma lost to Boston University. If my memory is correct, Alabama, Oregon and Florida also lost.

Sooner or later, LU has to take that next step, this weekend would be a good time to do it.

Dalegarz1 wrote:Should beat San Diego State and UC Davis. We have a good shot at UNC but to go 4-1 we would have to beat Arizona State (Only 1 loss to Tennessee) or UCLA (undefeated)

The unbridled optimism on this board is amazing. I hope we win them all. I love DR, but....................................

flameshaw wrote:

Dalegarz1 wrote:Should beat San Diego State and UC Davis. We have a good shot at UNC but to go 4-1 we would have to beat Arizona State (Only 1 loss to Tennessee) or UCLA (undefeated)

The unbridled optimism on this board is amazing. I hope we win them all. I love DR, but....................................

Better than unbridled negativity on a fan site.

flameshaw wrote:The unbridled optimism on this board is amazing.

Try some of this:

flamehunter wrote:

flameshaw wrote:

Dalegarz1 wrote:Should beat San Diego State and UC Davis. We have a good shot at UNC but to go 4-1 we would have to beat Arizona State (Only 1 loss to Tennessee) or UCLA (undefeated)

The unbridled optimism on this board is amazing. I hope we win them all. I love DR, but....................................

Better than unbridled negativity on a fan site.

Totally agree! Personally I like an overall optimistic tone with a dose of reality thrown in. IMHO This board has moved a bit too far to the negative.

UNC is 5-4 and has losses to Providence and Elon. Definitely winnable. ASU or UCLA would be major upsets, but I believe with Julia pitching her best we might have a shot.

I would like that as well! That's what I did before with football and basketball, but i was considered a non-realist. Things most likely not happen in the next few years, but I do believe LU can make something out of their athletic department on a national level. For softball, I do see DR bringing this team to a top 40 in a few years.

cruzan_flame13 wrote:I would like that as well! That's what I did before with football and basketball, but i was considered a non-realist. Things most likely not happen in the next few years, but I do believe LU can make something out of their athletic department on a national level. For softball, I do see DR bringing this team to a top 40 this year.

FIFY - Unbridled optimism!!

Beat the ranked teams on the schedule and we can crack Top 25. (and don't lose to the "weak" teams on schedule.