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Gimme all the wins! All of them!!

Posted in Softball, Wolves in college, tagged , , , , on February 16, 2020| Leave a Comment »

Sarah Wright leads the dugout chatter back in her high school days. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Winner, winner, (Southern fried) chicken dinner.

Powered by Coupeville grad Sarah Wright, the Sewanee: University of the South softball squad rolled to a doubleheader sweep of Johnson University Saturday in Tennessee.

Winning 10-0 and 10-4, the Tigers notched their first victories of the new campaign, and sit at 2-4 on the season.

Sewanee returns to action next weekend, when it travels to Georgia for back-to-back twinbills.

Wright and Co. play a doubleheader at Agnes Scott College Saturday, Feb. 22, then bounce over to Wesleyan College for two more games the next day.

The Tigers play the first 15 games of their 40-game schedule on the road, not making their home debut until March 7.

Facing off with Johnson University Saturday, Sewanee controlled the action from start to finish.

Wright caught both games of the doubleheader, collecting three hits and two RBI while holding down the #5 slot in the lineup.

On the season, the former Coupeville star is hitting .313 with five hits, three RBI, two walks, and an on-base percentage of .389.

That puts her in the top three on the team in all five offensive categories.

A freshman at Sewanee, Wright is studying politics in between softball games and practices.

During her time at CHS, she was class Valedictorian, while playing volleyball, soccer, basketball, and softball.

Wright capped her prep softball career by being tabbed as the 2019 North Sound Conference Defensive Player of the Year, while helping the Wolves advance to the state tourney for the third time in program history.

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Wright steps into college spotlight

Posted in Softball, Wolves in college, tagged , , , , on February 10, 2020| Leave a Comment »

Former Coupeville star Sarah Wright made her college softball debut this weekend. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

She’s entered a whole new world.

Coupeville grad Sarah Wright became the latest in a string of Wolves to take their game to the next level when she made her collegiate softball debut this weekend.

Wright, now a freshman at Sewanee: the University of the South, played four games in two days in two states, as the Tigers softball team kicked off their 40-game season with back-to-back doubleheaders.

While Sewanee came out on the short end of the score, being swept 8-0 and 10-0 by Judson (Ala), and 3-0 and 6-3 by Fort Valley State (GA), Coupeville’s progeny was a bright spot.

Wright collected two hits, a walk, and her team’s only RBI, which came on a bases-loaded free pass.

While the season is just 10% played, the former Wolf star is tied for the team lead in OBP (on base percentage) and hits.

Sewanee returns to action next weekend, when it hits the road again, playing a doubleheader February 15 against Johnson (TN).

The Tigers play their first 15 games away from their home field in Tennessee, not making their home debut until Mar. 7.

Wright’s season stretches from Feb. to late April.

During her time at CHS, the ever-ebullient one was a four-year star for the softball team, helping carry the Wolves to the state tourney during her senior season, where they beat Dear Park and came within a play of upending Cle Elum.

Wright also had strong stints as a basketball, volleyball, and soccer player, was the class valedictorian, and may have threatened to eat a worm of two to amuse her softball teammates.

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Sarah goes South for softball

Posted in Softball, tagged , , , , on May 8, 2019| Leave a Comment »

Coupeville softball star Sarah Wright has signed to play college ball for Sewanee: The University of the South in Tennessee. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Softball is carrying Sarah Wright across the country.

The Coupeville High School senior signed a letter of intent Wednesday to play for Sewanee: The University of the South, an NCAA D-III school in Tennessee.

While attending the liberal arts college, Wright plans to study politics, but will also spend a fair amount of time hanging around the diamond.

“I can’t imagine my life without softball,” she said in her Senior Night farewell. “And I am blessed enough to continue to play the sport I love.

“Go Tigers!”

The school, which is commonly referred to as simply Sewanee, offers 24 varsity sports.

The softball squad, coached by Merrit Yackey, went 3-27 this spring and graduates five of 11 players, leaving plenty of opportunity for Wright to make an immediate impact.

During her time at CHS, she’s been a four-year starter at catcher, while also pulling some side duty at third base and in the pitcher’s circle.

One of the most-ferocious sluggers ever to pull on a Wolf uniform, she brings smarts, grit, a surprising amount of speed, and eye-popping power to the diamond.

Wright is hitting .621 this season, with 41 hits, including 12 doubles, two triples, and four home-runs, while scoring 32 times and picking up 30 RBI.

During a four-year run she’s shared with fellow seniors Veronica Crownover and Nicole Laxton, the trio has won back-to-back league titles as juniors and seniors, while never losing a game to arch-rival South Whidbey.

Wright also played basketball for three seasons, volleyball for two, and soccer for two, and was named Homecoming Queen her senior season.

Sewanee softball, which plays in the Southern Athletic Association, currently has players from Florida, Tennessee, Alabama, Texas, and Pennsylvania on its roster.

A deep dive into Wikipedia reveals the campus (referred to as “The Domain” or “The Mountain”), sits on 13,000 acres atop the Cumberland Plateau, overlooking the Tennessee Valley.

The school was established in 1857, is affiliated with the Episcopal Church and has a long history of athletic and academic achievement.

The Sewanee Review, founded in 1892, is the oldest continuously-published literary magazine in the country, while 26 Rhodes Scholars have been launched from the campus.

Playwright and Pulitzer Prize winner Tennessee Williams, author of landmark plays such as The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, left his literary rights to the school.

There’s now a performance venue and teaching facility on campus named in his honor, and the school offers Tennessee Williams teaching fellowships.

The school can also lay claim to one of the great early-day athletic success stories.

The 1899 Sewanee Tigers football team went 12-0, with 11 shutouts, outscoring their foes 322-10.

Five of those wins came during a six-day, 2,500-mile road trip by train.

In a 2012 vote held by the College Football Hall of Fame, the 1899 Sewanee team nipped the 1961 Alabama squad and was named “the greatest collegiate football team of all time.”

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