Marisa Olmos and Ashleigh Rodriguez met when they were in fifth grade. They went to the same middle school, played travel softball together the past six years and now are juniors at Liberty.
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Julia Jensen, who led the Raiders to the state title with her pitching and hitting, is the Review-Journal”s state player of the year. See the complete teams.
Follow the link for the Review-Journal”s all-state softball teams.
Lincoln County softball coach Pat Kelley lost five players to graduation from his 2014 state championship team, and had only one senior coming back to defend his team’s title this season.
Pahranagat Valley sophomore Christian Higbee was the No. 5 pitcher in the Panthers’ rotation a season ago.
Boulder City’s Charlene Masterson isn’t a very talkative person.
Coronado junior Basia Query has been named the Southeast League”s Most Valuable Player. She hit .452 with 12 doubles and 36 RBIs for the Cougars, who won the Southeast softball title. Query floated between catcher and shortstop, depending on where her team needed her.
Palo Verde falls short in its quest to win its second consecutive state softball title, losing to Reed 3-2 in eight innings Saturday in the Division I championship game. Reed won its first state title since 1998 and avenged a loss to the Panthers in last year”s final.
After dropping its first game Saturday, Lincoln County’s softball team was trying to get out of the heat and regroup.
Pahranagat Valley has had its fair share of multi-sport athletes, but not many of them can say they’ve accomplished the “triple crown” in two consecutive years.
Follow the link for the schedule and scores (when available) for the 2015 state softball tournaments.
It easily could have been the most heartbreaking loss of her softball career.
Faith Lutheran’s softball team seemed to be in good stead after two innings of its elimination game against Fernley in the Division I-A state tournament on Friday.
When the White Pine softball players hit the breakfast buffet on Saturday morning, they’ll make sure Britney Kingston gets as many French toast sticks as she would like.
Pahranagat Valley’s softball team had to use a late six-run rally to win its opening-round game of the Division IV state tournament.