Tor softball girls scalp Chiefettes, off to blazing 13-2 start

PLEADING THEIR CASE Lamesa shortstop Nicole Ortiz and a San Angelo Lake View base runner wait for a ruling after a close play at second base during Tuesday evening’s high school softball game, which the Golden Tors went on to win, 5-2.

Vanessa Rodriguez’s fiancé Coach Jeremy Hernandez celebrated his 27th birthday here on Tuesday evening at Spikes Field, but it is her Golden Tornado softball squad that really is beginning to come of age.

By holding off San Angelo Lake View, 5-2, here on Tuesday evening at Spikes, the Tor softball squad is off to a blazing 13-2 start, which already is one more game than it won all of last season. Last year – Rodriguez’s first at the helm of this program – the Tor softballers finished at 12-14.

As excited as Rodriguez is about this year’s team, she does not get lost in its heroics.

Instead, it is more of a matter of reaching her expectations that this former Angelo State University college softball outfielder has set for this still relatively young squad. Its lone senior is first baseman Olivia Caudillo.

“We played ok today, but we’re always going to feel like we could do better,” Rodriguez said.

“We ended up doing some good things again out there today. We had some of our kids step up and get us big hits when we needed them.”


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Author: Dwight Heins