Softball Starts Fall Season Tomorrow
COLLEGE STATION, Texas –
Head coach Jo Evans and the Texas A&M softball team begin their
fall exhibition season tomorrow as they host Blinn College in a 6 p.m.
game at the Aggie Softball Complex. The game will be free to the public. The
Blinn Buccaneers placed five players on the Louisville Slugger/National
Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) National Junior College Atheltics
Association (NJCAA) All-America team after finishing fourth in the
NJCAA Division I Women’s Fastpitch National Championship tournament.
The coaching staff, consisting of head coach Rick Church and assistants
Jami Ingram and Haley Long, was named the NJCAA Div. I Regional
Coaching Staff of the Year after the team appeared in its
third-consecutive national tournament. The Aggies finished
the 2011 season at the NCAA Super Regional for the fourth time in
program history. The team returns All-Americans Mel Dumezich and Meagan
May, along with 2011 Big 12 Defensive Player of the Year Natalie
Villarreal and All-College Station Regional honoree Amber Garza.
Fourteen letterwinners will return to the diamond in 2012, while six
newcomers were added to the roster. The A&M softball
team will continue the fall season on Saturday, Oct. 1 in the SKGSL
College Classic in Spring, Texas, matching up against Texas
A&M-Corpus Christi and Stephen F. Austin.
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