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Posted by: () on Thu Jun 5 12:08:59 2003

Anybody watch the Women's College World Series?
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> > > 19 Homeruns, a new tournament record - the old record was 7.
> > >
> > > Veronica Nelson, Cal 1b, hit a couple despite being walked almost every other time. Is she rotational? How can you be that big/heavy and rotate your lower body quickly?
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> > > Mims/UCLA hit some bombs too. It looked like she was more throw the hands. Anybody disagree?
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> > > The monster shot of the tournament was from the freshman from Louisiana - Danyele Gomez - she hit the base of the 300 foot fence off of Osterman- the best pitcher. Power, no doubt.
> > >
> > > Texas got two homeruns from Poppe and Hall.
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> > > Maybe the game is going to change. Any comments?
> >
> > I saw Mims differently. Classic no-stride approach; exaggerated back shoulder tilt and upswing; Hips lead the hands. I taped and watched her in slow-mo and thought she was the most rotational hitter I saw during the series.
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> > Another point: The Louisiana-Lafayette team upped their home run average by approximately ten-fold after getting Epstein's tapes. The coach himself admitted as much.
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> I follow the Louisiana team. The hitting coach has only been there 3 years. Last year they hit 76 homeruns (a school record)- Alana Addison was invited to the Olympic trials and made the cut down to the top 25. Only Louisiana native to ever earn such an honor. She played in the Canada Cup and hit a two run bomb off of Fernandez to help the Elite team beat the Gold team. She graduated last year.
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> This year they hit 80 homeruns - led by a freshman, Danyele Gomez who hit 20. What is impressive about the team is that they all hit homeruns - all 9 in the line-up. They are definitely rotational - but he has his own "ideas" about the differences between a pure baseball swing and a softball POWER swing.

Now you've really really got my attention. Please do go on.

By the way, I would have LOVED to see what would have happened if Brooke had been at her best. Pitching-advantage Texas. Hitting-advantage ULL. Interesting match up.

The one time DD got to hit against Brooke was a 12 pitch foul fest walk at the gold qualifier in Katy a few years back. Glad to see her doing well.

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> Anybody watch the Women's College World Series?
> > > > 
> > > > 19 Homeruns, a new tournament record - the old record was 7.
> > > > 
> > > > Veronica Nelson, Cal 1b, hit a couple despite being walked almost every other time.  Is she rotational?  How can you be that big/heavy and rotate your lower body quickly?
> > > > 
> > > > Mims/UCLA hit some bombs too.  It looked like she was more throw the hands.  Anybody disagree?
> > > > 
> > > > The monster shot of the tournament was from the freshman from Louisiana - Danyele Gomez - she hit the base of the 300 foot fence off of Osterman- the best pitcher.  Power, no doubt.
> > > > 
> > > > Texas got two homeruns from Poppe and Hall.
> > > > 
> > > > Maybe the game is going to change.  Any comments?
> > > 
> > > I saw Mims differently.  Classic no-stride approach; exaggerated back shoulder tilt and upswing; Hips lead the hands.  I taped and watched her in slow-mo and thought she was the most rotational hitter I saw during the series.
> > > 
> > > Another point:  The Louisiana-Lafayette team upped their home run average by approximately ten-fold after getting Epstein's tapes.  The coach himself admitted as much.
> > 
> > -----
> > I follow the Louisiana team.  The hitting coach has only been there 3 years.  Last year they hit 76 homeruns (a school record)- Alana Addison was invited to the Olympic trials and made the cut down to the top 25.  Only Louisiana native to ever earn such an honor.  She played in the Canada Cup and hit a two run bomb off of Fernandez to help the Elite team beat the Gold team.  She graduated last year.
> > 
> > This year they hit 80 homeruns - led by a freshman, Danyele Gomez who hit 20.  What is impressive about the team is that they all hit homeruns - all 9 in the line-up.  They are definitely rotational - but he has his own "ideas" about the differences between a pure baseball swing and a softball POWER swing.  
>  
> Now you've really really got my attention. Please do go on. 
> 
> By the way, I would have LOVED to see what would have happened if Brooke had been at her best. Pitching-advantage Texas. Hitting-advantage ULL. Interesting match up. 
> 
> The one time DD got to hit against Brooke was a 12 pitch foul fest walk at the gold qualifier in Katy a few years back. Glad to see her doing well.

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