Since the SEC tournament starts this week, I thought it would be interesting to look at Tennessee's statistics in SEC contests only.
The overall SEC league batting average is 248. Tennessee's batting average is 246. We are 7th in a league of 13 (six teams ahead of us and six below us). With four SEC series left, we sat at an average of 215. Although, it may not have felt like it we have improved by 30 points over the last few weeks. Yes, we need to keep improving but we are not struggling as much as I thought.
We have two players in the top 11 in batting average. McKenna Gibson at 359, and Kiki at 352. You can add Zaida Puni when you look at on-base-pertage. Giving Tenessee three players in the top 13. We are the only program with three players represented.
Kiki leads the league ( SEC only) in Home runs at 10.
We lead the league in walks and hit by pitches. Making our on-base-percentage 378 which is second in the league.
I also was surprised by individual batting averages for SEC attempts only.
M. Donihoo 137; G. Koutsoyanopolus 190; Katie Taylor 205; J. Brockenbrough 224; R. West 243; L. Beautae 266; Zaida Puni 299; K. Malloy 352; M. Gibson 359.
Our fielding percentage is 967. The league average is 969. Again we are sitting on the league average. In other words, all of my concerns about fielding are not validated.
Our pitching is off the charts and I will post about that as well. However, our fielding and hitting is average (or above) in the best softball conference in the country.