Video: Spring High vs Klein Oak High
See Spring junior Brelyn Senegal blast a home run.The softball season in Texas is seven weeks old and some girls are racking up solid statistics. MaxPreps looks at the top five players in four major statistical offensive categories.
Batting averageCat Patterson, Jr., Brazosport Christian (Lake Jackson), .829Patterson has been on a tear at the start of this season. She is 29-for-35 at the plate, including 9-for-10 in her last three games. She also has 20 stolen bases.
Claire Wehrly, Jr., Brazosport Christian (Lake Jackson), .828Patterson's teammate, Wehrly, has been just as hot at the dish. She is 24-for-29 on the year and has an on-base percentage of .839. Ten of her hits are of the extra base variety.
Shelby Gayre, Sr., D'Hanis, .806Gayre is 8-for-10 in her last five games, which remarkably dropped her season average. She has 19 extra-base hits out of her 25 total hits, and an on-base percentage of .850, which leads Texas.
Jayda Coleman, Fr., The Colony, .737What a start to the varsity career for Coleman. She has 42 hits and has scored 37 runs. Coleman isn't just a contact hitter, she has tallied 22 extra-base hits, including 11 doubles.
Ally Puentes, Sr., Levelland, .731Puentes is 19-for-26 early in the season. She enjoyed a breakout 5-for-5 game with four RBIs, two doubles and a triple in a 31-0 victory over Slaton on March 3.
Home runsAbby Buettner, Fr., Ryan (Denton), 12Buettner has 12 homers in the first 59 at-bats of her career. She has homered in 10 of her team's 20 games, including two multi-home run games.
Madison Hirsch, So., The Colony, 12At just 5-foot-3, Hirsch packs a lot of punch in her bat. In the season opener, Hirsch laced two home runs and went 3-for-3 with five RBIs. She also had a two-homer, six-RBI game six weeks later.
Kasey Flores, Jr., Eastlake (El Paso), 10Flores has homered in six of her last 11 games to up her long-ball total to 10. She also has nine doubles.
McKenzie Parker, Jr., Willis, 10Parker has three multi-home run games, including three blasts, five RBIs and four hits in a 5-1 victory over Oak Ridge on Feb. 25.
Shelby Gayre, Sr., D'Hanis, 10One of the leaders in batting average, Gayre had six home runs in the first three games of the season, including going 9-for-11 with 14 RBI and eight runs scored.
Shelby Gayre, D'Hanis
File photo by Jeff Lavender
Buettner is putting up staggering stats this season. She has 59 official at-bats and 53 RBI, which is 2.65 RBIs per game. She has four or more RBIs in eight games.
Kasey Flores, Jr., Eastlake (El Paso), 51Flores' team has tallied 294 runs in the first 23 games, with Flores driving in 51. She has had two games with seven RBIs in the last two weeks.
Jazmyne Armendariz, Jr., Chapin (El Paso), 48Armendariz has laced 23 extra-base hits this season, 16 of those are doubles. Of her 48 RBIs, 20 have come in just three games.
Makana Morton, So., West Rusk (New London), 43Morton has been on an RBI-rampage in the last six, driving in 17 runs. Her most prominent game this season was when she tallied eight RBIs and was 5-for-5 with four runs scored in a 29-2 win on Feb. 8.
Faith Jimenez, Jr., West Texas (Stinnett), 42Jimenez has nine RBIs in her last three games to bump up her season total to 42. She has eight game this year where she has driven in three or more runners.
RunsKasey Flores, Jr., Eastlake (El Paso), 46Flores is smooth on the basepaths, scoring 46 runs this season. She has scored a run in all but three of her team's 23 games this season, and has two or more runs in 15 games.
Kristin Fifield, So., Chapin (El Paso), 44Fifield has come around to score in 17 of her team's 19 games, the only two she didn't were shutout losses. She has scored 21 runs in the last six games.
Savannah Wysocki, Jr., Eastlake (El Paso), 42Wysocki has 48 hits and nine walks this year and has scored 42 times. On 13 occasions, she has scored two or more runs.
Aziah James, Jr., Spring, 41Spring is scoring a ton this year, and a big reason for that is the play of James. She has an on-base percentage of .561 and has tallied 41 runs.
Alexis Pevehouse, So., Melissa, 39Pevehouse has scored in all but one game this season. She has reached base 48 times this season, on just 32 hits, and came around to score 39 runs.
