The Temple College Softball team will continue their journey through the second week of play on Tuesday afternoon as they will take on San Jacinto – South in Houston.
Times of the doubleheader are slated for 2 pm and 4:30 pm.
Temple (6-2) returned from a weekend series in Odessa that saw the Leopards run-rule Luna Community College in five innings twice (14-2 and 19-6) and fall in back-to-back games on the last at-bat to No. 6 Odessa College (9-8 and 5-3 in eight innings).
The weekend was productive on offense, with the Leopards mashing 53 hits in four games, having hit .477, crushed 11 doubles, two triples, six homers, and drove home 40 runs. The Leopards were 14-of-14 on stolen base attempts.
Temple has hit for ten or more hits in all eight games for 98 hits total, good for fifth nationally. Their 21 doubles are fourth nationally, three triples good for third in the nation, 32 extra-base hits is sixth overall, 149 total bases eighth overall, 68 RBI is 10th overall. TC's 30 stolen bases are also fifth nationally.
Reese Cottrell hit 7-of-12 with a homer and 7 RBI for the weekend. Lexi Dudeczka went 6-of-11 with four RBI. Jasmine Benavidez went 6-of-15 with two RBI. Ryley Litchfield hit 6-of-11 with a homer and 6 RBI. Myah Stark was 3-of-6 with a triple, homer, and five RBI. Izzy Garcia went 2-of-2 with two homers, and four runs batted in.
Cottrell (.600 BA, .625 OBP, 12 hits, 12 RBI), Dudeczka (.500 BA, .536 OBP, 5 RBI), Litchfield (.524 BA, .545 OBP, 9 RBI), Garcia (.857 BA, .900 OBP, 2 HR, 6 RBI), and Angie DeLeon (HR, 6 RBI, BB, 3 HBP) are amongst the early producers for TC through the first week of the season.
The Leopards committed six errors in 104 opportunities during the four-game set for a .943 fielding percentage, having gone into the weekend perfect in 82 chances. TC allowed four unearned runs in the series, all to Odessa.
Temple's pitching staff pitched 23 2/3 innings during the weekend, allowed 22 runs (18 earned) on 19 hits (eight hits were homers), and struck out 31 and walked eight.
Kat Kram (2-2, perfect game, 19 IP, six earned runs allowed, 31 strikeouts, five walks, 11.4 strikeouts per seven innings and Garcia (3-0, 17.1 IP, seven earned runs allowed, 25 strikeouts, five walks, 10.1 strikeouts per seven innings) have carried the bulk of the pitching load so far.
San Jac is coming off a Louisiana swing where they went 2-2. The Ravens were swept at LSU-Eunice, 12-4 and 9-0, and won twice at Baton Rouge Community College, 12-5 and 17-10.
San Jac (3-3) is hitting .328 through the first six games, has an on-base percentage of .368, scored 43 runs on 59 hits, logged five doubles, four triples, two homers, and 37 runs batted in.
Adrain Cantu (.556 BA, .600 OBP, two RBI), Maddie Perez (.538 BA, .500 OBP, 7 hits, eight RBI), and Mia Ortega, Kam DeLeon, and Kenadie Guthrie (each with three RBI) are the producers for San Jac.
The Ravens' pitching staff has an earned run average of 4.82.
Audrey Diercks, Vanessa Valdez, Jenna Hashaw, Kaelin Hicks, and Micaela Lewis comprise the Ravens' pitching staff.