Blake Colston
sports@piedmontnewsonline.com
Piedmont softball will head into next season with plenty of talent to work with it appears.
With recent commitments, seven Lady Wildcats have now pledged to play college softball.
Second baseman Rikki Hadley and catcher Ellie Griffin were the most recent to commit. Hadley picked East Central and Griffin chose Seminole State College.
Hadley, who will be a junior, put together a stellar sophomore campaign, hitting six home runs while driving in 47 runs and batting .451. Griffin, meanwhile, was a .371 hitter with nine RBI’s in limited action last season.
Jordan Collins, Chloe Bohuslavicky, Molly McDermott, Tara Hibbler and Jade Rowland are also college-bound.
Collins, a SWOSU commit, had 17 hits in 33 at-bats last season and scored 15 runs. McDermott had a home run and 11 RBI’s. She has pledged to Murray State (Okla.).
Bohuslavicky served as Piedmont’s ace in the circle for the past two seasons and is a cinch to play that role again this fall. A Northeastern State commit, Bohuslavicky was 18-6 last season with a 1.58 ERA in 141 2/3 innings. She totaled 91 strikeouts with only 41 walks.
Hibbler, a SWOSU commit, and Rowland, who is headed to Seminole State, will play their first seasons at Piedmont this fall after Rowland transferred from Canute and Hibbler moved in from Choctaw.
Head coach Keith Coleman said he expects outfielder Kenedi Morelock, who is not commited anywhere, to play in college, too. Morelock batted .500 as a sophomore and scored a team-high 48 runs last season.
Piedmont finished 30-7 and advanced to the Class 5A state title game in 2017.
