Eastern Florida State College Softball Finishes Regular Season with Record Setting 38 Wins

Titans No. 7 seed for the FCSAA Division I Softball Championships

BREVARD COUNTY • FLORIDA—The Eastern Florida State College softball team is the No. 7 seed for the FCSAA Division I Softball Championships, which opened Tuesday in Clearwater.

The Titans, who are 38-20 this season, are making their second straight appearance in the state tournament and faced No. 2 seed Northwest Florida State College in the first round at Eddie C. Moore Complex.

Northwest Florida State College came into the tournament 54-2 and was 20-0 in the Panhandle this season. Cailyn Heyl was the Pitcher of the Year for the Panhandle and heads into the postseason 28-1 with a 0.83 ERA in 143 innings. Sophomore first baseman Sister Arnold was the Panhandle’s Player of the Year after hitting .437 this season with 12 home runs and has driven in 50 runs.

Freshman Avery Velazquez was the Citrus Conference North Player of the Year leading the state in RBIs with 65 while hitting .414 with seven home runs and 22 doubles. On the mound Velazquez is 23-10 with a 1.14 ERA in 208 1/3 innings.

Florida Southwestern State College is the No. 1 seed in the tournament while Indian River State College is the No. 3 seed.

The 38 wins are the most in the regular season for the Titans and have reached the 30-win mark for the ninth time in the past 25 years.

The game was a rematch of last season’s South Atlantic District B Championship in which Northwest Florida won, advancing to the NJCAA Division I National Tournament.

Fans can watch all of the games here.

The Eastern Florida State College softball team picked up a pair of wins on the road Tuesday to punch their ticket to the postseason for the second straight season.

The 17th ranked Titans defeated Hillsborough Community College 11-2 in the first game and then 13-1 in five innings in the second game to finish the conference season 23-17. Eastern Florida State College will find out when they will play in the state tournament later this week. The tournament begins next week in Clearwater.

On Tuesday, the Titans finished off Game 1 by scoring twice in sixth inning and four more times in the seventh inning to win 11-2.

Aracelis Jimenez went 5-for-5 and scored three times in the win while Jessica Merk had an inside the park home run and had three hits with three RBI and three runs scored.

In Game 2, the Titans kept things rolling, scoring twice in the first and four times in the second and third innings. They scored three more times in the fifth inning to end the game.

Ashley Corazzini drove in three runs on two hits while Isabel Otero went 3-for-3 with two runs scored. Cora Middleton went 1-for-1 with two runs scored and drove in two runs.

The Titans finish the regular season 38-20.

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