Press Sports Editor sports@presspublications.com From top to bottom, Oak Harbor’s girls softball lineup might be better than it was last year. That’s saying something, considering that last season the Rockets won their first-ever regional championship in getting to the final four.
Last year, the Cardinal Stritch softball team was young, and keeping the season alive was the play of then-senior third baseman Allie St. Clair, who batted .574 (27-for-47) with 24 RBIs and 14 stolen bases.
For Cardinals this season is for Allie St. Claire Published by sports@presspub. on Mon, 05/10/2021 - 1:28pm
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Senior pitcher Allie St. Claire (Press photo by Doug Karns/www.DougKarns.smugmug.com)
Cardinal Stritch softball is 3-9 overall and 3-2 in the Toledo Area Athletic Conference, but coach Tony Esposito says the Cardinals are where he expected them to be. He only has 11 players in his entire program and only one player who came into the season with any high school experience, let alone varsity experience. Six of the remaining 10 had never played organized softball before, or any kind of softball since second grade.