Inaugural Season • 2008 2008 Drury Softball Schedule Drury Panther Bios Continued
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DRURY PANTHER BIOS CONTINUED 2008 DRURY SOFTBALL SCHEDULE INAUGURAL SEASON • 2008 Casey Elliott Keri Waggoner Kelsea Garthoff Position: Outfield Position: Third Base/Catcher Position: Pitcher/Outfield B/T: R/R B/T: R/R B/T: R/R Height: 5-6 Height: 5-6 Height: 5-3 Class: Freshman Class: Freshman Class: Freshman Hometown: Skiatook, OK Hometown: Midwest City, OK Hometown: Olathe, KS Last School: Skiatook Last School: Carl Albert Last School: East Was an all-state, all-region and all- Helped Carl Albert High School in Was an all-conference and all-dis- conference pick her senior season at Midwest City, Oklahoma win the trict pick in 2003 and 2004 while at Skiatook High School in Oklahoma. the 2006 state championship. Olathe East High School and earned MVP honors both years. 20 21 22 Sadie Ball Mandy Burnett Position: Catcher/Outfield Position: Shortstop/Third Base Date Opponent Location Time Date Opponent Location Time B/T: R/R B/T: R/R Height: 5-6 Height: 5-5 Feb. March Class: Junior Class: Freshman Hometown: Wichita, KS Hometown: Edmond, OK 15, Fri. ^Delta State Tunica, MS 12 p.m. 18, Tues. *West Florida Pensacola, FL 3/5 p.m. Last School: Northwest Last School: Santa Fe 15, Fri. ^Henderson State Tunica, MS 2 p.m. 19, Wed. *Lyon Pensacola, FL 9/11 a.m. Led her team in home runs with 14 Was an all-state alternate, an and in batting average .487 at Butler all-conference, All-Region 6 and 16, Sat. ^Arkansas Tech Tunica, MS 10 a.m. 21, Fri. @Kentucky Wesleyan (DH)# Owensboro, KY 12/2 p.m. County Community College. All-Edmond honoree and earned defensive player-of-the-year honors 16, Sat. ^Southern Arkansas Tunica, MS 2 p.m. 22, Sat. @Southern Indiana (DH)# Evansville, IN 12/2 p.m. for Santa Fe High School. 27 44 17, Sun. ^Alabama-Huntsville Tunica, MS 2 p.m. 29, Sat. Saint Joseph’s (DH)# Springfield, MO 12/2 p.m. 17, Sun. ^Arkansas-Monticello Tunica, MS 4 p.m. 30, Sun. Indianapolis (DH)# Springfield, MO 12/2 p.m. 20, Wed. @Southwest Baptist Bolivar, MO 1/3 p.m. April SEASON PREVIEW 22, Fri. &William Penn Springfield, MO 12:45 1, Tues. Central Missouri (DH) Springfield, MO 3/5 p.m. p.m. 5, Sat. @Quachita Baptist (DH) Arkadelphia, AR 12/2 p.m. 22, Fri. &Baker Springfield, MO 4:30 p.m. Drury’s first-ever softball team got a sneak peek at its abilities during a fall “We have some kids who are upperclassmen who have definitely emerged as 6, Sun. @Arkansas-Monticello (DH) Monticello, AR 12/2 p.m. schedule that produced a 5-3 record in scrimmages against various schools. great leaders,” Medico said. “The young kids are naïve but eager and are here 22, Fri. &Missouri Valley Springfield, MO 6:15 p.m. 12, Sat. @SIU Edwardsville (DH)# Edwardsville, IL 12/2 p.m. That was enough for coach Annie Medico to believe her Panthers can take the to work hard.” 23, Sat. &Evangel Early Bird Bracket Play Springfield, MO TBA field this spring with a confidence level that tells them they can compete with Medico, a former college standout herself down the road at Missouri State 13, Sun. @Quincy (DH)# Quincy, IL 12/2 p.m. March most anybody in that opposing dugout. “I had a feeling we got better every University, says the Panthers discovered who their stalwarts might be during the 17, Thur. @Missouri S&T (non-conf) (DH)# Rolla, MO 2/4 p.m. time we played,” said Medico, 28, in her first season as a head coach after serv- fall drills, including the revelation that freshman Brittany Davis will likely draw 1, Sat. %Northwest Missouri State Pittsburg, KS 10 a.m. ing as an assistant at Southern Indiana. “We have a group that works really the top assignment as the ever-important No. 1 pitcher. But several players will 19, Sat. Northern Kentucky (DH)# Springfield, MO 12/2 p.m. 1, Sat. %Henderson State Pittsburg, KS 2 p.m. hard and have some kids who’ve made a lot of improvement. I think we’ll be be in the mix throughout the spring for playing time, especially in the outfield 20, Sun. Bellarmine (DH)# Springfield, MO 12/2 p.m. very competitive.” and on the mound. 2, Sun. %Nebraska-Omaha Pittsburg, KS 12 p.m. The Panthers began official workouts on Jan. 16 in preparation for the first The Panthers will use the non-conference portion of their schedule to prepare 23, Wed. Rockhurst (DH)# Springfield, MO 3/5 p.m. 2, Sun. %Pittsburg State Pittsburg, KS 2 p.m. official games in the program’s history when Drury will compete in the Delta for the rigors of the Great Lakes Valley Conference, one of the premier leagues 26, Sat. @Wisconsin-Parkside (DH)# Kenosha, WI 12/2 p.m. State University Tournament Feb. 15-17 in Tunica, Miss. At press time, the in the country and one that produced the NCAA Division II national cham- 7, Fri. !Truman State Joplin, MO 2:15 p.m. 27, Sun. @Lewis (DH)# Romeoville, IL 12/2 p.m Panthers are finalizing details for a home double-header with Southwest Baptist pion last season in Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, which DU will 7, Fri. !Missouri Southern State Joplin, MO 5:45 p.m. on Tuesday, March 4, which would represent their first-ever home games at the visit for a double-header on April 12. 29, Tues. Pittsburg State (DH) Springfield, MO 2/4 p.m. 7, Fri. !Fort Hays State Joplin, MO 7:30 p.m. revamped Thompson Field at Meador Park. “I’m confident in our squad and its ability to be competitive,” Medico says. “I May Drury will open with its first 17 games away from home if that’s the case, think something I learned before the fall was that in our conference, the teams 8, Sat. !Washburn Joplin, MO 4:30 p.m. 2-4, including a double-header at SBU in Bolivar (Feb. 20) and tournaments at that are successful are the ones that are aggressive in terms of base-stealing, GLVC Tournament Peoria, IL TBA Evangel University and Pittsburg State. The Panthers will visit Missouri South- using the hit-and-run …we’re not a very big team, so we’re going to have to use 8, Sat. !Northwest Missouri State Joplin, MO 6:15 p.m. Fri.-Sun. ern on March 7-8 for another tourney – most softball tournaments consist of things like that to our advantage.” 10, Mon. Truman State (DH) Springfield, MO 3/5 p.m. 9-11 Regional Tournament TBA TBA between four to six games in a single weekend - before hosting Truman State Drury’s first baseball team in more than three decades made a huge and unlikely Fri.-Sun. 14, Fri. Missouri S&T (DH)# Springfield, MO 12/2 p.m. in a double-header on Monday, March 10 in what would become the first-ever splash in its debut last spring, winning 34 games, the GLVC championship and Head Coach Annie Medico home game should the SBU matchup not come to fruition. advancing to the NCAA-II Tournament, where Coach Mark Stratton’s Panthers 15, Sat. Missouri-St. Louis (DH)# Springfield, MO 12/2 p.m. Assistant Coach Kristen Karanzias Medico, who started at Drury in the fall of 2006 in order to spend a year won a pair of games. 17, Mon. *Huntington Pensacola, FL 5 p.m. recruiting talent for her first squad, has assembled a group of 20 players to rep- To expect the same from the softball Panthers in their inaugural effort is a bit resent the Panthers this spring, including a nice mix of experience and youth. unrealistic … but it doesn’t hurt to dream, either. “We can definitely shoot for 17, Mon. *William Jewell Pensacola, FL 9 p.m. She credits several of the squad’s junior college transfers, including catcher that,” Medico says. “I think our immediate goals are to be competitive, to have Sadie Ball, outfielder Kelly Ross and third baseman Stephanie Ray, for helping a winning season and to make it into the conference tournament field (where Denotes: ^ Gulf South/Mid-West Crossover, & Evangel Early Bird Tournament, % Pittsburg State University Softball Invitational, # Great Lakes Valley Conference Game, the freshmen make the transition to the college game. the top eight teams qualify).” ! Teri Mathis Zenner Memorial Softball Tournament hosted by: Missouri Southern State University, * University of West Florida Spring Fling DRURY SOFTBALL COACHES 2008 DRURY SOFTBALL ROSTER DRURY PANTHER BIOS Lauren Cranford Brittany Powers Kelly Ross When then-Drury athletic director Edsel and also served as a student assistant coach for the Bears in 2003 before moving Position: Pitcher/First Base Position: Pitcher/Outfield Position: Outfield B/T: R/R B/T: R/R B/T: L/R Matthews was searching for a softball coach on to USI, one of the top programs in the GLVC. Height: 5-7 Height: 5-6 Height: 5-0 to head the start-up efforts of the new Pan- “My main goal is to recruit quality student-athletes to represent Drury and Class: Freshman Class: Freshman Class: Junior Hometown: Midwest City, OK Hometown: Catoosa, OK Hometown: Bloomington, IL thers’ program, he knew he needed someone compete at the highest level possible as we get the program off the ground and Last School: Carl Albert Last School: Catoosa Last School: Totino-Grace meeting a couple of prerequisites: First, they strive to eventually compete at the national level,” Medico said.