3/27/12

Mason Robinson

Texas State softball is on a hot streak. The team has had some perfect performances in its quest to win another Southland Conference championship. Mason Robinson has more in this Bobcat Update.

The Bobcats' softball team is a winner. In Texas State athletics history, only volleyball has won more games as a team. But this team has a pair of players who've done something this season so special, it's unmatched in the history of the game. It started when senior Chandler Hall threw one of the few no-hitters in Texas State softball history, shutting down a solid Stephen F. Austin lineup in the first game on the Southland Conference schedule.
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Not to be outdone, junior pitcher Anne Marie Taylor did what a lot of fans would only say in jest -- go out the next day and throw another no-hitter. Only Taylor wasn't kidding.
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It's something that head coach Ricci Woodard had never seen nor heard of in more than two decades of playing and coaching softball.
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But what makes the story more remarkable is the follow up to the follow up. Hall threw a two-hit shut out against Southeastern Louisiana. Then, Taylor did something a mere 24 hours later she's never done, and coach Woodard had only seen once before. She threw a perfect game.
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It's unheard of to have pitching performances like these so close together on one team. And as Texas State won the conference tournament last season, and the last three regular season championships before that, does this kind of hype make this Bobcat club the center of attention?
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As the halfway point of the conference schedule comes closer, some of the 'Cats are hungry for more than just another S-L-C title. Taylor wants to get past a regional tournament for the first time in school history. To do that, they'd have to defend their current title, and Hall says they might just be the ones for the job.
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