The field of 8 is set for the Women’s College World Series and if you didn’t have a chance to follow the Super Regionals this past weekend, “upset” was the name of the game! M…
Firecrackers in the NCAA Supers!
The road to the NCAA Women’s College World Series is getting shorter! The field of teams has gone from 64 to 16 and by this Sunday we will have our 8 remaining teams who will make their dreams a…
Wester Sisters Top NCAA National Player of the Year Lists
Firecracker alumni and University of Notre Dame sister sensations, Karley and Ali Wester, are charging into the 2016 collegiate softball postseason with a vengeance! The one-two punch atop the Fightin…
Janelle Lindvall and Duck’s Clinch 4th Straight Pac-12 Title
As Janelle Lindvall began her senior year at the University of Oregon, we had a chance to ask her a few questions about her career and her expectations for the season. The Oregon Ducks just clinched t…
Georgia’s Tina Iosefa Leads the Nation in RBIs
RBI. Ribbie. Ribeye. Whichever way you say it or write it, it means the same thing: runs batted in. Every coach at every level of the game wants a hitter’s RBI count to be high; the higher the number,…
Nicole DeWitt
With NCAA post season rapidly approaching, we are fortunate as an organization to have many Firecracker alumni represent us at the next level. Some Play with Honor out of the spotlight and others have…
Karley Wester explains why “Notre Dame wasn’t my dream school”
But everything happens for a reason. The process of college recruiting for softball is incredibly stressful – this is probably true for any sport, but softball is the sport I know. College coac…
Megan Kleist gets it done in the circle for the Ducks
CATHEDRAL CITY, Calif. — Freshman Megan Kleist pitched a complete game two-hitter as the Oregon softball team blanked Oklahoma State, 7-0, in their final game at the Mary Nutter Classic Sunday m…