No lead will be enough and the defense will be severely tested because there will be few strikeouts and many hard hit balls. The Irish have two junk ball pitchers and one relatively hard thrower with little movement or location. Morgan Ryan, the hard thrower, has the most potential but in my opinion she has not and will not receive competent pitching coaching to reach her full potential.


Notre Dame softball same as it has always been. Gumpf is a great representative of Notre Dame but she has not hired, for whatever reasons, elite assistant coaches and her talent evaluation and recruiting is meh. Her inability to recruit a bell cow pitcher the last 17 years has doomed the program to mediocrity.

and that is NOT a good combination.