Lady Hornets Picking Up Where They Left Off

Through March 8th, the Lady Hornets Softball team have continue their winning ways ever since they won the MEAC Tournament last spring. Even though last year was all a distant memory, this year there are some different changes in the lady hornets softball team:

• Shai Tabor has not played during the first eight games of the season
• The Lady Hornets has not hit a home run yet
• Lady Hornets are 5-0 when scoring five runs or more and 0-3 when scoring four runs or less

Softball coach Jeff Savage knows how to find ways to win. Compare to last year their pitching this year has improve successfully with a team ERA of 2.80 with their starting pitching ERA of 2.51

What's even more impressive is that Delaware State is doing what they do every season and that is getting runners on base and scoring runs what ever they can with walks, hits, stolen bases. If the lady hornets continue their Lady Hornet Recipe, you might be looking at the Lady Hornets as being the MEAC Tournament Champions for the second straight year. Remember the lady hornets are predicted to finished first in the MEAC.

Good Start for Hornets Baseball

Well hornet fans the Hornets baseball team, who was predicted to finished fourth in the MEAC, is getting off to a terrific start with a 4-1-1 through the first six games of the season.

The Hornets are batting .331 with 46 RBIs, and 61 runs scored.

What's even better is that four hornets are hitting .300 or better:

• Wynton Weather .375
• Jose Sanchez .444
• Justin Bittner .563
• Ross Babineaux .600

You have to give the pitching a lot of credit so far because the hornets have a ERA of 3.56 while striking out 52 batters and allowing their opponents to bat .220.

Big props to Justin Schmidt because he lead their pitching staff to a 2-0 record with a ERA of 3.29 with a shutout, a save, striking out 16 while only walking two.

Even though Delaware State don't hit a lot of home runs (2), they will finds a way to scored runs by good base running, solid pitching, good defense (.966 fielding percentage and six errors) and being patience at the plate.

If the Hornets can follow the baseball science formula, they can be a dangerous threat in the MEAC Conference and a challenge to defending MEAC champion Bethune-Cookman.