WE HERE NOW!

GD, I love Aggie Baseball.

SEC today 24-2

Ranked wins

#15 Missouri 10 -#8Duke 3
#2 Florida 13 - #22 Michigan 1
#5 Tennessee 12 - #20 Northwestern 1

Losses
#15 Missouri 3 - Notre Dame 4
#11 Alabama 1 - #17 Arizona 9

Huge congrats to freshman Sydney Lessentine on a great game! NINE strikeouts! Her first collegiate game and start was a 'pitcher's duel' and she handled it really, really well. Freshman Kate Munnerlyn only in for one inning but did well. Looking forward to seeing more innings from her.

Allie broke her non-hitting spell with a 3-run homer - good for her!

Freshmen KK and Frankie continue to shine. KK gets her first collegiate HR - good for her! The two combined for the only run in the 1-0 win vs ACU. Fellow freshman Kelsey Mathis pinch ran a few times but finally got to bat. A SAC fly to CF scored a run. Good for her! I hope to see more of her in the future because she was an offensive powerhouse all four years in HS but with Kramer, Allie and Frankie in the OF her time will be limited this year.

Sidne did better this time around. She leads the team with 12 strikeouts AND only a single walk - both are wonderful! As a team, 35 strikeouts with only 8 walks. Really good ratio.

Bottom of the order with KK, Frankie and Kramer continue to impress. Kramer currently leads the team with a .600 BA. See rest of the stats here:

https://12thman.com/sports/softball/stats/2025

One more game in the tourney. Next week the team heads for Florida for a tournament with better competition. Will be a good test.

Not a great day for the SEC

13-2 overall. A couple teams like OU and LSU survived scares against unranked opponents

No wins against ranked teams today

Losses

Kentucky 3 - #8 Duke 6
#24 Miss St 0 - #16 Nebraska 3

Clearwater opponents

Wichita St went 5-0 at Grand Canyon Tournament
UCF went 5-1 in their own Tournament with the only loss to Georgia
Ok St went 2-2 in Puerto Vallarta Splitting with Fla St and falling to La Tech
Virginia 3-2 at S Carolina Tourney dropping both games to USCe
Charlotte 2-3 at LSU Tourney. Run ruled by LSU twice and SE La once, Beating SE la once and Central Arkansas

In an interview Coach Ford said that Harger made up the non-conference schedule.

Designed so that the competition gets harder and harder each weekend, all leading toward SEC play. A lot of schools do this and it is a very good thing to do.

Most years our season starts with a home tournament, always a good idea. We have played really tough tournaments in CA and FL the second week of the season in past years. Some years we do well, some years not so much.

After this coming weekend, we will have two games against FSU, at their place. It will be good for all the girls, especially the freshmen, to experience a hostile crowd early because the SEC is full of hostile crowds. Once again, preparing for SEC play.

I'm looking forward to the challenge !!

Don't sleep on SE La at FSU as well. They gave LSU all they could handle this weekend. I like this schedule although except the lack of midweek games to keep the hitters sharp. Will be interesting to see the effect that has on the bats as we get into conference play

Boozer92 said:

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Don't sleep on SE La at FSU as well. They gave LSU all they could handle this weekend. I like this schedule although except the lack of midweek games to keep the hitters sharp. Will be interesting to see the effect that has on the bats as we get into conference play

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Oh, I know SE LA is good, they have played us tough in the past. Mentioned only FSU because the tourney is at their place, with their crowd. Great test for the freshmen, especially.

Cannot really overlook any school. Learned that years ago. This past weekend's 1-0 win over ACU is a great example. They gave up a lot of runs in their previous games but ... well, you know what happened in our game with them.

Personal note - a brother graduated from Louisiana many years ago (was USL back then). My mom was a HUGE Cajun fan. I follow their games closely, in memory of my mom. They play NE LA and LSU every year.

When we played Louisiana in the WCWS in 2008 my mom rooted for the Cajuns when we played them. She always supported the Aggies - except when they played Louisiana. I was at that tournament and went to their games as well as the Aggie games. I sent my mom a shirt with the eight teams listed, she loved it!

Aggies ranked 5 on ESPN/USA Softball Rankings

https://instagr.am/p/DF8SKBCuTwO

Also 5 in coaches

https://nfca.org/component/com_nfca/Itemid,230/list,1/pdiv,div1/top25,1/year,2025/

And 7 in DI Softball

https://d1softball.com/d1softball-top-25-poll-2025-week-one/

I keep the following site bookmarked, changing only the year in the URL each year. Can look at four polls in one place with color-coded cells to easily see who moved up, down, stayed the same, dropped out, etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_NCAA_Division_I_softball_rankings

Some tough games this weekend.

Find on the Aggie youtube page (from today):

Clearwater Invite Preview: Trisha Ford

Clearwater Invite Preview: Kramer Eschete, Frankie Vrazel


Saw advertised on the side of the page. I missed it (from four days ago), a 27 min audio interview

Covering the Bases with Trisha Ford

The sips play Texas Tech a couple of times in their tournament in Austin. Tomorrow and Sunday. Good chance Canady will get the start for Tech both games.

Will be a good preview because we play Tech on March 1 and 2. The last tournament before we start SEC vs #2 Florida. At home this year. Payback time.

Note that one of the players Glasco brought over from Louisiana is Alexa Langeliers. She is really good. Sam Landry, one of the Cajun's best pitchers, also transferred but she went to OU. She is a senior so we will not see her again unless we play them in postseason.

There is a great new interview with Coach Ford on the TexAgs softball page:

"Trisha Ford recaps No. 5 Texas A&M's 6-0 weekend at Davis Diamond"

For whatever reason it gives me an error when I tried to open in Firefox but it opened fine in Edge.

I'll leave it to someone else to start a thread for the tourney that starts tomorrow if we are going to continue doing so. Does not matter to me.

Will any of the games be televised this weekend?

Gigemchicken90 said:

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Will any of the games be televised this weekend?

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I think all of them will be on ESPN+.

Our website has

Thu & Fri ESPN+
Sat morning ESPN2
Sat noon ESPN+
Sun SEC Network

Sunday is a long way away but keep an eye in the forecast. Currently calls for scattered T storms turning to steady rain. Since we play at 8am(9am Florida time) maybe we can beat the rain

Gigemchicken90 said:

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Will any of the games be televised this weekend?

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Shriners Children's Clearwater Invitational Softball Tournament Schedule
Thursday vs Wichita St. - ESPN+ & Disney+
Friday vs Central Florida - ESPN+
Saturday vs Okie State - ESPN2 & ESPN+
Sunday vs Charlotte - SEC Network

It's Florida. It will rain. Might do it daily. Usually afternoonish.

Started a game thread for the tournament here

https://texags.com/forums/8/topics/3527545/replies/69649863

Usually afternoon storms are summertime rituals. Winter rains are dependent on when the cold fronts pass through the area in question. Depends on when & how fast the front is moving as to when the rain clears out of the area or hangs around. Check the forecast Sat. Night.

If anybody is going, the retro-Diner Lenny's is right around the corner on US 17-92 & is a great place to eat. Fields are in 3 venues, side-by-side (sorta kinda) on Drew Street.

Field 1-4 are furthest from the Gulf on Drew St. Huge oak trees make it a nice venue to enjoy the game in the shade with a breeze. Fields 5 & 6 are next door. One is next to a couple of buildings, the other out in the opening. Field 7, 8 & 9 are a half mile towards the Gulf on Drew. These are in a big space & lots of room.

Thank you all for the replies about the times.

5. Texas A&M (7-0)

Aggie Classic (6-0)
Clearwater Invitational (1-0)
Game 1 - Wichita State: 9-1
Game 2 - UCF:
Game 3 - Oklahoma State:
Game 4 - Virginia:
Game 5 - Charlotte

Home Runs
Mac Barbara - 3
KK Dement - 2
Allie Enright - 2
Mya Perez - 1

RBI's
Mac Barbara - 14
Mya Perez - 12
KK Dement - 6
Kennedy Powell - 5
Allie Enright - 4

Batting Average %
Frankie Vrazel: .563
Kramer Eschete: .538
Kojo Wooley: .455
Mya Perez: .444
Mac Barbara: .421

Pitching
Emiley Kennedy: 3-0
Sidne Peters: 2-0
Sydney Lessentine: 2-0

Up next: Clearwater Invitational - February 14 -
UCF (6-2)

Clearwater continues to be tough on SEC teams. San Diego St takes down Alabama. Virginia pushed Auburn to extra innings