Softball on Historic Pace

Well, Rob’s finally been forced to leave me at the controls this week. So get ready for Sun Belt bitching, Strategic Plan slashing, and spring game updates  a Softball post! You’re damn right I’m kicking off the week with an entire post about the blazing hot JMU Softball squad. The numbers speak for themselves (cough, Men’s hoops, cough): The 25th ranked and climbing Dukes are 27-6 overall after a 6-0 start to CAA play and currently RIDING AN 18 GAME WINNING STREAK! That’ll get the attention of even the most jaded fans of non football and hoops. And that winning streak includes two-game sweeps of UNC and UVA, plus wins over Maryland and a ranked UCF team. The Dukes also beat a ranked Minnesota team and played #3 Alabama very close earlier in the year. Honestly, but for a blowout loss to #5 Michigan, the Dukes have played a top-notch schedule and been right there all season. Which is all the more impressive considering the early part of the season was played under almost unprecedented weather issues and reschedulings almost everywhere JMU went.

Don’t worry, Jailyn Ford is still a star, just at the plate equally to the mound now!

Freshman Pitcher Megan Good has been so fantastic that last year’s freshman phenom Jailyn Ford, who you may remember led the Dukes to a superb season, a CAA title and an opening win in last year’s NCAA regionals, is now a hitting superstar and the secondary woman in the circle (see, we’re learning). Good has run her record to 16-0 with a 1.04 ERA and a ridiculous 114-21 K/BB ratio. Oh yeah, she’s also hitting a cool .415, trailing only the team’s true badass hitting star Erica Field. For now, that’s about the extent of what we can offer on the subject (though you can explore a lot more here at JMU Sports), but if these women keep rolling (less than 5 weeks to postseason play), there’s gonna be a whole lot more interested Dukes fans real quick – keep it up ladies!