Katie Machado « Ashland Daily Photo

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2023 SOU softball championship parade

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2023 SOU Softball National Champions Parade (June 6, 2023)

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Deja Acosta

SOU President Rick Bailey addresses the crowd

Coach of the Year Jessica Pistole and World Series MVP Cayla Williams

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2023 CCC Softball Awards

2023 Cascade Conference Softball Statistics

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Details here and here.

The question that most people must be asking after seeing who won Player of the Year is how can the reigning National Player of the Year, who is having a very similar season as last, not have received the award? I have no idea. You’ll have to ask the coaches.

The article states that it’s because Loffer has the most walks and runs scored. However, Riley has a much higher batting average, more hits, almost twice as many RBIs, seven more HRs, more than 120 points higher in slugging percentage, and 20 more total bases in the exact same number of games. Total bases is a far more important stat than runs or RBIs as the latter two have a lot to do with where one bats in the lineup. Another way to neutralize the fact that Loffer leads off and Riley hits third is to add runs and RBIs. Again, Riley exceeds Loffer by a decent margin (120 for Donovan vs. 108 for Loffer).

Maybe it was defense then? In conference play, Donovan’s fielding percentage was .991; Loffer’s was .936. Hmmmmm…

This seems like an effort on the coaches’ part to “spread the awards” instead of awarding them to the most deserving.

Deja Acosta

Cayla Williams

Riley Donovan

Katie Machado

Sarah Kerling

Lauren Weinberg

Sammie Pemberton

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Raiders are #5 (or #3?)

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Katie Machado leads the Raiders with a 1.76 ERA and 50 Ks in 51.2 innings

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Details here.

Although the coaches have Oregon Tech at #1, Massey has OIT at #3 (see below) in the conference! Tech and College of Idaho split their series so it is odd that the coaches have the Yotes so far down. The Raiders head to Klamath Falls next week so those two games could shed a bit more light on things.