Speaker 1: Raging Cagen Softball gains a commitment from a Florida State
Speaker 1: transfer catcher. Let's learn about her here on Raging Rundown.
Speaker 1: What's good, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to another episode
Speaker 1: of Raging Rundown All Cajun's all the time. I'm your guy,
Speaker 1: JaMarcus Fitzpatrick, but you know you can always call me fits.
Speaker 1: And in today's episode, we will be talking about Raging
Speaker 1: Cagen Softball earning two commitments, the first from a transfer
Speaker 1: catcher from Florida State and then also a high school signee.
Speaker 1: And then later on in the show, we will talk
Speaker 1: about the fallball schedule that Raging Cagen's Baseball has released
Speaker 1: as they will get closer to the twenty twenty seven
Speaker 1: season and introducing us to Team one thirteen. So let's
Speaker 1: lead off with the transfer catcher that is Danica Spinegatti
Speaker 1: from Florida State announcing her commitment to join the Raging
Speaker 1: Cajun softball program. She initially entered the transfer portal back
Speaker 1: on June the eighth, after spending a red shirt year
Speaker 1: at Florida State. Obviously, now the eligibility rules, it would
Speaker 1: have been her one year already so she has four
Speaker 1: years of eligibility remaining. She is actually coming off of
Speaker 1: an ACL surgery, so she tour ACL last year. But
Speaker 1: on July the eighth, she posted a video on her
Speaker 1: Twitter account saying that almost eight months post ACO surgery
Speaker 1: and she's feeling stronger than ever. So she is coming
Speaker 1: off of an injury. But she has four years of eligibility.
Speaker 1: And she was a part of the Florida state team
Speaker 1: that went fifty to ten, that hosted the tallahasse A
Speaker 1: Regional but ultimately bowed out to UCF in the regional final.
Speaker 1: So a little bit of a snapshot about her. She
Speaker 1: attended I'm trying to pull it up here. She attended
Speaker 1: Montvert Academy, the world famous Montvert Academy where great athletes
Speaker 1: come from Cooper Flag. I think went there if you
Speaker 1: know about from a basketball perspective, she turned herself into
Speaker 1: one of the top prospects in the country. She was
Speaker 1: the number twenty nine overall player by Extra Inning Softball
Speaker 1: and as a six time Florida Class three eight All
Speaker 1: State honoree. In twenty twenty five, she hit a four
Speaker 1: to eighty five with eight home runs and forty rbi.
Speaker 1: She helped Montverd to get the number two rank in
Speaker 1: the entire country. She was a PGF All American in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five and was a finalist for the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five Florida Gatorade Player of the Year. She was
Speaker 1: selected to the US Triple or the U Triple s
Speaker 1: A Select thirty All Star Game in twenty one twenty two,
Speaker 1: and the Triple Crown All Star Game in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1: Just a list of numerous accolades, and she also helped
Speaker 1: Mountverd to win their first ever state title back in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four. So obviously none of that is going
Speaker 1: to translate over to the collegiate level, but it just
Speaker 1: goes to show you the type of catcher that you're
Speaker 1: adding to your roster. Obviously, again, she is coming off
Speaker 1: of that Aco injury, so she's going to have to
Speaker 1: regain her confidence, and we know that after injuries sometimes
Speaker 1: it can take some time. But you are getting a
Speaker 1: former elite catcher at the high school level, and so
Speaker 1: you add her into the mix, it now gives you
Speaker 1: an opportunity to have options at the catcher position. Obviously,
Speaker 1: Kennedy Marshol was a huge factor for you behind the
Speaker 1: dish last season getting All Conference honors, you sign Zoe Harrington,
Speaker 1: the North A Million product, and now you add in
Speaker 1: Danica Spenegotti to the mix. So now if you decide
Speaker 1: then maybe you want to move Kennedy Marsol to the
Speaker 1: outfield or the infield, or you want to move Zoe Harrington.
Speaker 1: You have the options to do that as long as
Speaker 1: one of the catchers behind Kennedy Marso, Zoe Harrington, or
Speaker 1: Danica Spinegotti, if either one of those players are able
Speaker 1: to step up. She has a really strong bat from
Speaker 1: some of the cutups that I've seen her in the
Speaker 1: cages and some of the videos that she's posted on
Speaker 1: her social media platform, so you can go and check
Speaker 1: some of that out. But even though she did not
Speaker 1: play on this Florida State team, she was around a
Speaker 1: lot of great players. She was in the locker room
Speaker 1: as that team was building what they eventually had as
Speaker 1: a really solid regular season campaign, winning the ACC and
Speaker 1: back to back seasons and ultimately being able to host
Speaker 1: a region or just not being able to finish the
Speaker 1: job get to a super regional, and who knows what
Speaker 1: could have happened from that point on and so because
Speaker 1: of that, maybe some of those positive aspects that she
Speaker 1: learned while she was there in Tallahassee in her one season,
Speaker 1: she can be able to carry that over into the
Speaker 1: Raging Cajun's locker room. We've talked about it before here
Speaker 1: on this show. In order to build a winning program,
Speaker 1: you have to recruit players that have been around winning
Speaker 1: programs and have been a part of successful programs that
Speaker 1: have won championships and have seen what it takes to
Speaker 1: be great, even if that's going and getting a player
Speaker 1: that hasn't played yet, but they know what greatness looks like,
Speaker 1: and so now when they get their opportunities to go
Speaker 1: out and play, they can be able to execute some
Speaker 1: of those same things that they've seen other great players
Speaker 1: be able to do. So that is how things will
Speaker 1: look for you on that end, on the softball end,
Speaker 1: excuse me, on the pitching perspective. They also received a commitment,
Speaker 1: but it was from the high school ranks of things,
Speaker 1: and we're going to introduce you to her when we
Speaker 1: return here on Rage and Rundown. Hey, guys, thank you
Speaker 1: so much for tuning into another episode of Rage and
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Speaker 1: in just a second. But before we do, if you
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Speaker 1: fans just like yourself. So before we went to break,
Speaker 1: we told you about Danica Spinegatti, the Florida State transfer
Speaker 1: catcher that is now a Raging Cajun. And now we're
Speaker 1: going to talk about the high school catcher that the
Speaker 1: Raging Cagns received a commitment from. Her name is Candid's
Speaker 1: Candice Pooage. She is a right handed pitcher. She is
Speaker 1: from the state of California. Like I said, she is
Speaker 1: a right handed pitcher. In her senior season, she was
Speaker 1: first team All del Rio. I was not able to
Speaker 1: find too many stats in terms of the full collective
Speaker 1: part of the season, but from what I saw on
Speaker 1: max Preps from the games that they have, she also
Speaker 1: hit so she hit a two eighty four. She had
Speaker 1: twenty seven hits, nineteen RBI she had a fielding percentage
Speaker 1: of nine twenty six, So that's her high school career
Speaker 1: batting status. Overall, her senior season from the games that
Speaker 1: they have listed, which I don't know if this is
Speaker 1: the final stats at all, she had a three to
Speaker 1: zero eight batting average, sixteen hits, nineteen RBI. And then
Speaker 1: from a pitching perspective, her NCSA profile has her with
Speaker 1: her fastest pitch velocity being at sixty five miles an hour,
Speaker 1: her change of velocity being at forty three, and an
Speaker 1: overhand throw at sixty seven miles per hour. So again
Speaker 1: you're adding in a young player to the mix, someone
Speaker 1: that is unproven, very similar to Danica Spinegotti, but being
Speaker 1: around a team that was very solid in her final season,
Speaker 1: and now you add her to this roster in a
Speaker 1: bullpen that is going to be spearheaded, like we've said before,
Speaker 1: by Sage Hoover, who is your most experienced pitcher, followed
Speaker 1: by Bailey maccles who was on the team last year
Speaker 1: but had very few appearances in the twenty twenty sixth season.
Speaker 1: After that you have Emily Adams. Mikaela Ranicky is a
Speaker 1: utility player, but she has the ability that if you
Speaker 1: need her to come in and pitch, she can. You
Speaker 1: sign KG Favors, who was the South Carolina transfer, and
Speaker 1: now you add in Candace pooh it. It's going to
Speaker 1: take me a minute to try to be used to
Speaker 1: saying that. So you're, like I said, you're very very
Speaker 1: young out of your bullpen, but you have the opportunity
Speaker 1: to be able to build something and see what she
Speaker 1: can become as an overall player, and maybe somewhere further
Speaker 1: down the line she can become the ace for you.
Speaker 1: The thing that's going to be very clear about, not
Speaker 1: just the pitching staff, but this roster as a whole,
Speaker 1: is that this team is going to be very young.
Speaker 1: They're going to be not nearly as experienced as what
Speaker 1: they would like. But if the coaching staff is able
Speaker 1: to get these girls developed enough quickly enough to get
Speaker 1: them ready, this team has the opportunity to be good
Speaker 1: for some time. As it stands, your roster has twenty
Speaker 1: two total players. They still have three roster spots potentially available.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure exactly how much further they will go
Speaker 1: in terms of a recruiting standpoint, but they have twelve
Speaker 1: total twelve total returners seven incoming freshmen, three transfers, but
Speaker 1: all three of those transfers are basically freshmen as well
Speaker 1: because all three of them red shirted last season. Angelina
Speaker 1: Conde from Texas Tech, Danica Spinegatti from Florida State, and
Speaker 1: then KG Favors from South Carolina are your three transfers,
Speaker 1: and I'll list off all of the players that you
Speaker 1: have across the board and the pitching staff. Bailey Macholes
Speaker 1: and Sage Hoover are your two returners. Emily Adams and
Speaker 1: Candid's Candice Pooage is your are your two freshman pitchers.
Speaker 1: KG Favors is your transfer pitcher. Your infielders Mea Lescano,
Speaker 1: Brooke Otto, Madison Manning, Hailey Hard and Emily Smith are
Speaker 1: all returners. Ali Rios, Tory Gonzalez, and Angelina Condey will
Speaker 1: be newcomers. The two freshmen, Ali Rios into Gonzales Conde
Speaker 1: being the transfer. Your outfielders Jajah Williams, Mia Norwood, Lily
Speaker 1: Knox and Kennedy Stuts are your returners. Hayley Johnson is
Speaker 1: a incoming freshman. Your catchers, Kennedy mors Zoe Harrington is
Speaker 1: a freshman. Kennedy Morso is a returner, Danika Spinegatti is
Speaker 1: the transfer, and then your utility player is Mikhaela Ranicking.
Speaker 1: Still working to find out where she's gonna land in
Speaker 1: terms of positional player, but she has the ability to
Speaker 1: play anywhere. So, like I said, the team will look
Speaker 1: extremely young. Last season, you had only five seniors. This
Speaker 1: incoming season, you will have only five singers. Those five
Speaker 1: seniors will be Sage Hoover, Bio Ascano, Brooke Otto, Dejah Williams,
Speaker 1: and Madison Manning. Everybody else thereafter are all underclassmen. And
Speaker 1: of the newcomers that you have, that being ten newcomers,
Speaker 1: your true freshmen, and your transfers. All of them will
Speaker 1: be freshmen. All of them have either four to five
Speaker 1: years of eligibility. So that means if you can get
Speaker 1: this group to start clicking over the summer months now,
Speaker 1: once they get back on campus through fall ball, and
Speaker 1: once the season starts, you can have them to get
Speaker 1: off to a fast start. That means that you will
Speaker 1: be able to be good for a very long time.
Speaker 1: This is the part about building up a program. The
Speaker 1: main thing is will this coaching staff be able to
Speaker 1: get these young ladies ready Alison Habits, Lacy Prajean Kyle Brady,
Speaker 1: Bill Shipman. It's their responsibility now that your roster is
Speaker 1: starting to slowly come to form, after you've had players
Speaker 1: to leave the program to enter the transfer portal and
Speaker 1: go elsewhere. Now it's about taking the players that you've
Speaker 1: brought in because a pretty much all of this roster
Speaker 1: except maybe two to three players or all your recruits.
Speaker 1: They are all the ones that you went and sought
Speaker 1: after you brought them in and you have integrated them
Speaker 1: into the program. So now it's about getting them ready
Speaker 1: to be able to go out and compete, to not
Speaker 1: just be competitive, to not potentially win a few games.
Speaker 1: It's the standard is to dominate the Sun Belt, to
Speaker 1: win the Sun Belt and then host a regional and
Speaker 1: go on a run to try to go toward a
Speaker 1: college World Series. So it'll be interesting to see how
Speaker 1: this team turns out. But that is how things stand
Speaker 1: with your softball program. Twenty two total players, three spots
Speaker 1: remaining as you have twelve returners, seven freshmen, and three transfers.
Speaker 1: Switching gears now to the other diamond sport. The baseball
Speaker 1: program source allowed me to be able to find out
Speaker 1: what their fall ball schedule will look like. The Cajuns
Speaker 1: will begin action on October the second. They have four
Speaker 1: games they will play. Three of them will be against
Speaker 1: in state opponents, the other will be against Lamar, but
Speaker 1: all of these games are against Southland Conference opponents. So
Speaker 1: on October second, they will travel to Nichols. On October sixteenth,
Speaker 1: they will play Northwestern State. On October twenty fifth, they
Speaker 1: will play McNeice at home, so the Northwestern State game
Speaker 1: of the McNeese game both at home, and then they
Speaker 1: will round out fall ball on Friday night, October the
Speaker 1: thirtieth against Lamar. So three Friday night action games with
Speaker 1: the Nichols, Northwestern State, and Lamar game, and then one
Speaker 1: Saturday opportunity to see the raging Cagens baseball team on
Speaker 1: October twenty fifth. We know what that roster completely looks like.
Speaker 1: We've talked about it in previous episodes that you can
Speaker 1: check out on the channel of the type of dynamic
Speaker 1: that Matt Diggs appears to have gone through, and I
Speaker 1: actually will be trying to get an opportunity to speak
Speaker 1: with him a little bit later this week on my
Speaker 1: day job at KTC, so I'll be trying to get
Speaker 1: some answers from him on what went into the thought
Speaker 1: process of why he decided to go the route that
Speaker 1: he did and not taking as many freshmen on the roster,
Speaker 1: only taking two and going and getting transfer guys that
Speaker 1: had a ton of experience to go along with the
Speaker 1: returners that he had in the mix. I'll be trying
Speaker 1: to get some of those answers from him. But, like
Speaker 1: what we've talked about, he said after the Start Build
Speaker 1: Regional that they he didn't feel like they ran out
Speaker 1: of gas. He felt like they simply ran out of arms.
Speaker 1: And now they are not going to have that problem
Speaker 1: anymore because they have twenty total pictures on the roster
Speaker 1: and they have some elite skilled players like a Blaze Rodriguez,
Speaker 1: like a Noah Lewis, you know, like a Cole Brown,
Speaker 1: and then O saw your preud as the other freshman
Speaker 1: the big four that we've talked about. They have a
Speaker 1: ton of skilled players to go along with the pitching
Speaker 1: staff that they have now built up with the transfers
Speaker 1: that they're bringing in the extensive amount of transfers that
Speaker 1: they're bringing in is what is stands out the most
Speaker 1: to me at this point you know. That is what's
Speaker 1: going to be interesting to see as we see them
Speaker 1: face off against some of these instate opponents and seeing
Speaker 1: how they're how well they're going to jail together. This
Speaker 1: is the opportunity that they will have where you'll be
Speaker 1: able to see, Okay, here's who we can have at
Speaker 1: first base, here's who we can have at second Maybe
Speaker 1: we can rotate differently at this position. Here's who you
Speaker 1: got in the outfield. You can try this person in
Speaker 1: the left field, this person at center, this person at right.
Speaker 1: You have the opportunity to see who's going to be
Speaker 1: your main starter out of your bullpen, who's going to
Speaker 1: be an ace for you, who's going to be your
Speaker 1: Friday guy, your Saturday guy, your Sunday guy. This is
Speaker 1: the first opportunity that you have to learn about what
Speaker 1: this team will be made of. You have the opportunity
Speaker 1: to see how hard they're willing to work. They're going
Speaker 1: through their workouts now and that will carry over even
Speaker 1: more into the fall. But once they get out there
Speaker 1: and they're actually playing some live action against a different opponent,
Speaker 1: that's when you'll be able to see what your team
Speaker 1: is truly made of. So it'll be fun to see
Speaker 1: what Team one thirteen will look like as we inch
Speaker 1: closer to the season through the fallball action that's going
Speaker 1: to wrap up yet another episode of Rage and Rundown.
Speaker 1: If you've made it to this point in the episode,
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