Speaking of Ole Miss
 

My daughter Ashton signed her National Letter of Intent to play FastPitch Softball for Ole Miss. Being a diehard LSU man; I am extermely proud of her. She has always wanted to play Division 1/SEC softball. I am humbled to be a dad that has been able to see his 1st child's dream become a reality.

Y'all are a second family and feel it is only right to let y'all know about it. So if you happen to be watching the SEC Network next year and see Ole Miss Softball playing, be on the look out for #12 of the Lady Rebels.

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congrats sapper i have two that went to OLE Miss and loved it. I am more of a Tulane fan myself :)

I will keep an out for the lady rebels

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Way to go! Post up some vids in the College forum if you get 'em ... Women's NCAA Fastpitch ain't no joke, dem girls bring the heat! :)

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oh hell i was just thinking about girls fast pitch. i faced one at a park once. she got really mad at me for crowding the plate. i was goofing around till she beamed the hell out me. took two weeks for the welt to go down. hope she can duck and cover really quick. that freaking hurt

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She's pretty good with the bat.

A a batter trying to hit a 58-60 MPH fastball in fastpitch softball, has the same reaction time as a baseball player trying to hit a 105 MPH fastball. There are few that can throw in the low 70's. That's bringing it! If you blink; take your eyes off the ball for a milisecond and it's a strike.

My daughter pitches every once in a while. I used to have to catch her. Lets just say I bought shin guards. Lucky for me, I used to be a catcher so it wasn't as bad on me.

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I hear ya' ... played a lot of "slo"-pitch (of course, ;)) at one point and our "manager" got the bright idea to enter us in a fast-pitch tourney because we had one guy (count 'em ... ONE, :rolleyes:) who could pitch at that level. Yeah, we were the 'pride of the bar leagues' ...

Needless to say, it was an eye-opening weekend for me ... think I managed to foul one off at some point, not sure, :neutral: ... made me a firm believer that the hardest thing to do in professional sports would be hitting a fastball, :).

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Congrats!!!

As a die hard Cow Bell Man from Dirt Farmer U, I am extremely proud & happy for you and your daughter.

Give'em hell on that diamond...and go getting that degree to what she wants to be!

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Job well done Sapper. I'm sure you are very proud of Ashton.