OnFocus Stratford Tigers Softball Season Preview

OnFocus Stratford Tigers Softball Season Preview

Key returners this season:

• Returners: Tessa Berg 12/OF, Bailey Linzmaier 12 IF/OF, Lexie Christopherson 12 OF/IF, Sonia Peterson 12 IF/P, Ava Weix 12 OF, Tessa Miller 12 OF, Kenidi Palmer 12 IF, Lauren Kraus 12 IF/OF, Kressa Wenzel 11 IF, Emma Roeper 10 C/IF, Laney Pankratz 10 P/IF 
• Newcomers to Varsity: Trista Larocque 12 OF, Ashley Hollatz 11 IF/OF, Tria Tubbs 9 P/IF, Gracie Schmidt 9 IF 
  
• Strengths of your team: Our strength is a group of girls that work very well together, they are unselfish and understand that every team has roles. So proud of how they have meshed so far.  Additionally, I think we have more team speed than we have had in a couple of years which means the short game will be a larger part of our game this season.  Defensively, our pitchers do a good job keeping batters off balance and our defense works hard behind them.  Excited to watch this team continue to improve. 

• Conference outlook: The Marawood South is always strong as well as our crossover games in the north.  We have two teams that went to the state tourney last year that return the majority of their teams.  We talk daily about how we wouldn’t want it any other way, we want to compete at a high level and our conference shows that.  

• Coaching staff: Mandy Pankratz, Kellen Kafka, Brittany Bredemann, Troy Bargender 

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