Earlier, I thought it strange that a team could have the pre-season player of the year and pitcher of the year, yet be picked to finish tenth. If the coaches were right about Lipscomb's talent level, they had to be better than that, right?
Right.
Lipscomb is 21-18 overall, 15-9 in conference, and has a 3-game lead on Mercer in the race for the #1 seed in the conference tournament. Caleb Joseph, the afrementioned Player of the Year, is hitting .377 with an OPS pushing 1.100. Brandon McClurg has an ERA of 2.72, and has yet to allow a home run in 53 innings of work. Not bad when the hitters are holding metal bats.
The softball team is having an unexpectly good year as well, wrapping up the #1 tournament seed this weekend. The Lady Bisons are 16-6 in conference, 27-22 overall. Kim and Alaina Jacobson (no relation that I know of) have been servicable on the mound, but the story has been Abby Keese. The sophomore shortstop has been tearing the cover off the ball, hitting .349 with 14 HR's and an OPS of 1.087.
Good stuff.
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