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Local players finish college softball season
by PAUL ADKINS, Sports Editor
May 17, 2011 | 1332 views | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend | print
Logan High School’s Ali Neace recently completed her first season of collegiate softball at Alderson-Broaddus College.

The freshman hurler was 4-6 with a 3.44 ERA this season for the Battlers.

Neace, the older sister of Logan High School sister Sommer Neace, made 15 appearances and pitched 61 innings with 59 strikeouts and 16 issued walks. She allowed 30 earned runs and 54 base hits.

Alderson-Broaddus finished the season 24-23 overall and 10-11 in the West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.

West Virginia Wesleyan won the league championship with a 3-2 win over West Virginia State.

The WV State women featured a pair of local players in sophomore catcher Poppy Ramey and freshman pitcher/infielder Marlena Frye. Ramey is a 2009 Chapmanville Regional High School graduate and Harts native. Frye is a Man High School graduate.

West Virginia State finished the season 33-14 overall and 13-5 in the league, good for third place in the regular season standings.

Ramey hit .245 with seven RBI in 37 game appearances. She had 26 hits and was a perfect 11-for-11 in base stealing attempts.

Frye hit .336 with two home runs, 28 RBI, eight doubles and 38 total base hits. She was 8-for-9 in stolen bases.

On the mound, Frye was 0-0 with a 7.88 ERA in four appearances. She pitched 2.2 innings and allowed three earned runs and two hits with two strikeouts and seven walks.

West Virginia Wesleyan advanced to the Mid-Atlantic Regional but lost 2-1 to Bloomsburg (Pa.). The Bobcats finished with a 48-8 record.

Playing for NAIA Pikeville College (Ky.) this season was former Logan High School softball player Hannah Vinson.

The Lady Bears were 19-22 overall and 10-16 in the Mid-South Conference.

Vinson hit .389 with five home runs, 17 RBI, seven doubles and a triple.

Brianna Blankenship, a freshman from Chapmanville, was 1-for-2 at the plate with a double for the Pikeville Lady Bears this season.
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