Montpelier Locomotives 2025 Softball Preview

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Montpelier Locomotives

Head Coach: Andy Robinson
Years Head Coach (current school): 5th
Record (current school): 48-37
Years Head Coach (overall): 5th
Record (overall): 48-37

Assistant Coaches:
Eric Stantz
Bryan Hopper
Tommy Bechtol
Kaycee Humbarger

Record last season: 17-8 (6-1)
League Affiliation: Buckeye Border Conference (BBC)
Last year's playoff results:
Sectional and District Champs
Regional Semi finalist

Top players returning:
Madelyn Hopper (P): BBC POY, 2nd Team All district
Pitching - 16-5, 218 Ks, 29ER, 1.6 ERA
Batting - .506 avg, 41H, 4 HR, 33RBI

Kelsie Bumb (SS): 1st Team BBC, 2nd Team All District
.474avg, 37H, 5HR, 28RBI, 39R

Lyla Mahan (C/OF): 1st Team BBC, HM all district
.388avg, 31H, 11RBI, 32R,15SB

Jada Uribes (1B,UTL): 1st Team BBC
.408avg, 29H, 16RBI, 16R

Maggie Jacob (OF): HM BBC
.345avg, 19H, 11RBI, 15R

Top players lost:
Lost 1 senior
Addison Dick (OF): .283avg, 15H, 13RBI, 14R

New impact players:
Katie Terry
Henna Beck
Bella Ramos

Twitter:
@LocosSoftball

Final Comments:
Coming off our most succesful season in 20 years and only losing 1 senior we are looking for another strong year in 2025. We have a group of 5 seniors that have all been playing Varisty softball for 3 or 4 years now and have seen success. We will be aiming for a league title first and foremost and to make a deep run come tournament time.

Strengths
- Pitching is one of our best strengths this season, led by the back to back league player of the year in Madelyn Hopper. Hopper is coming off of back to back years with 210+ strikeouts and a 1.5 ERA last season. She is a Defiance College Commit and is looking to finish her senior year strong
- Behind Hopper is a veteran defensive group who had less than 50 errors last season and only let up 79 runs on the season. The defense is lead by senior catcher, Owens College commit, Lyla Mahan along with Senior Short Stop Kelsie Bumb and 1st base/UTL Jada Uribes.
- Batting and team speed is another strength. The team batted .356 last year led by both Madelyn Hopper (.506 Avg) and Kelsie Bumb (.474)

Weakness
Finding 3 confident outfielders who can make plays on any ball hit their way will be a challenge we look to figure out in the offseason."
 
 
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