Lady Cardinals season comes to an end
Catonsville, MD- The Lady Cardinals season has come to an end.
After a season of injury battling and COVID-19 regulations, the CCBC Catonsville softball team concludes their season. They finished 9-20 on the year with a team batting average of .353. After their regular season, the Lady Cardinals would travel to Anne Arundel Community College for a Region XX play-in game, where they defeated the Riverhawks 5-0. Mackenzie Brooks really nailed the win for the team with a 3-run shot to right field.
The team would then travel to #1 Hagerstown with just 9 players. Despite losing to them in by a whopping 18 runs earlier in the season, the Lady Cardinals-with just 9 athletes to work with- finished 7 innings with a tie. It would not be until the bottom of the 8th when Hagerstown sealed the win. Unfortunately, the Cardinals had to forfeit their losers bracket game against Frederick Community College to end their season.
STANDOUT SEASON STATS:
- Abigail Heagy led the team hitting .479/.575/.845 and led the team in homeruns with 6- which is also tied for first in the MD JUCO conference. Heagy leads MD JUCO in batting average as well.
- Mackenzie Brooks finished with .417/.447/.736 and was right behind Heagy with 5 homeruns- tied for second in the MD JUCO conference. Brooks also led the team in RBI's with 31- another MD JUCO leading stat for the Cardinals.
- Madison Miller finished the season with .405/.451/.649. Miller was second in RBI's with 25 (3rd in MD JUCO), first in doubles with 9, and only struck out 3 times in 74 AB's.
- Bryanna Hoskinson was fourth in strikeouts (45) and tied for second in wins (5) in the MD JUCO conference.
- Felicity Voss was fifth in strikeouts in MD JUCO (37).
As COVID-19 restrictions begin to lift and life starts to return to some normality, the softball program looks forward to a bright future and a successful 2021-2022 season.