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Interesting season this year. A lot of injuries and tough moments, but Kenzie Brown continues to be really good and this team just battles and has a really good vibe around it right now

They had to finish strong to even make the BigXII tournament, then took the difficult path and won the BigXII tournament with wins over Arizona, Oklahoma State and Texas Tech in the title game

It's been an unsettled couple of years - there was definitely an exodus and she struggles after the change, but a lot of attention on program and community - the good got better, but the talent and depth wasn't there

You start thinking of it's just going to be a feeder program at it's best, are they going to fall behind GCU locally, is the program just out of range for being competitive

This year and this finish gives hope. Yes, you need someone strong in the circle - ASU can get that someone, get more than one year out of them, graduate them and send them to the pros.

This team is smaller in player size than many I can remember, but they work well together.

They don't always play clean or make things easy, but they are very capable

In a bit of a moment, they ended up in college station for the regionals. Win yesterday to play A&M today and came from 1 down in the 7th to win by 1.

A win in their stadium, that despite their ball whatever chant was carried in atmosphere by the traveling ASU fans - even when they'd play that organ prompt it was meet with "let's-go-dev-ils"

Even if they lose 2 tomorrow and don't make it through, there had been life breathed back into this program

However, it would be incredibly sweet to end A&Ms season, in their stadium after the impact they kicked off 4 years ago
 

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Nice 4-1 win over Texas in the super regional

Texas has lost their last 7 super regional game 1s and advanced in 4 of them so this is far from done, but the devils are playing well with great vibes right now
 
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Getting ready for game 3 on ESPN at 1:30

They got out to a 2-0 lead and carried it into the 5th when Texas tied it up. A solo shot put ASU up 3-2, but Texas hit back with a 2 run HR to settle the margin 4-3.

Has been a really interesting and competitive series with very fine margins.

Pitching should be intriguing as well as but teams have gotten good performances from their secondary pitchers
 

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Not feeling good about this one. They have had chances but just cannot find a hit with RISP.
 
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