Seriously do you watch SEC softball? Georgia was top 3 in every hitting category last year. To include home runs. They hit 107 we hit 51. RBIs… UGA 384-263 UA. Batting average UGA .323 UA .284.
Yet we took 2 of 3 from UGA by a combined score of 21-8. UGA's stats look great because they played a soft non-con schedule. In conference only games they hit .280, Bama hit .272. Agree they "out-homered" us - pretty much everyone did. I'm not saying Bama's offense is better than UGA's. My point - which is valid - is that players like Goodnite aren't going to cure UA's problems. We need power and lots of it. And a deeper pitching staff.
Lexi headed to Oklahoma State. Little Surprised most everyone thought she would either be a Nole or Gator from everything I saw.
Yeah there was absolutely no way she was going to UCF or USF unless her surgery was that bad for her future. She was too good of a pitcher. Georgia and Arkansas wanted her but ultimately this was probably a better choice for her.
Agreed on her being too good for USF or UCF. I only guessed USF because of the rumors of her wanting to be closer to her fiance, and that it wouldn't be the Gators. I didn't think it would be FSU, since their staff is already solid. Kinda shocked by Okie Lite, since it is much further than Tuscaloosa. That being said, OSU will be really tough again next year, and should definitely make a deep run in OKC again.
Those were pretty much message board rumors from sites like the rant and 247 in which the subject matter goes all over the place. She was being pursued by large schools since the end of the season . Even when it was known after the MSU by people in the know that she was transferring she basically indicated that Georgia, Florida, and Arkansas were preferred choices. If she was going to USF or UCF then she would have made that decision pretty much the second that the season was over and not been flying out to Arizona, Stillwater, Arkansas, and Athens.
She is still a coveted player. You can't teach speed like that. If she had played 4 years at Bama. She would have probably been top 3 CFs in team History behind Haylie McCleney and Brittany Rogers. Goodnight could hit and bunt. Murphy was trying to make a slapper out of her. There isn't anything with adding slapping to her game. The problem is making her do it at every at bat. She hit her one and only HR of the season in the 3rd game at Arizona. The 2022 team had hitters. What we need is a HITTING COACH! In 4 years at Bama KB Sides hit 3 HRs. In one year at Arkansas she hit 13. In the 1st 27 games Goodnight hit .413. https://rolltide.com/sports/softball/roster/dallis-goodnight/7798 Games included, Oregon St, Arizona, Virginia, 2 against Louisiana, 2 against Texas and SEC series against LSU and Kentucky. During the 2nd half of the season he plays a player (that's in a worse slump) in her place because she's in a slump. She hit above .300 the entire season except for 1 at bat against Stanford. She is a natural leadoff. The 2022 class was one of the best we've ever had and 1/2 of it transferred.
I fully expect Goodnight and Bloodworth to become household names in the next two years. Jena Lord I have no idea. But anyone that really believes that losing 3 freshmen starters is addition by subtraction and replacing them with 3 more freshmen is a good strategy really has an opinion against facts and logic.
Goodnight is special. We will regret losing her along with Bloodworth, Kilfoyl and Lord.
