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CSU Pueblo softball player joins Ben Cason on podcast episode, talks improving young team
An excerpt from the Pueblo Star Sports podcast episode with CSU Pueblo softball’s Ashley Tosh. Tosh played primarily in the outfield in her sophomore season. The team finished with a 21-30 record, but only had three seniors on the roster.
Ben Cason: It’s a very young team, you yourself were only a sophomore this season. As the season has been going on what did you all learn as a team:
Ashley Tosh: I think the biggest thing is growing our confidence. As a really young team we started this season honestly a bit scared of our opponents. We’d come up and say “We’ve heard all of this about Regis and CCU, we’re only freshmen and sophomores on the field right now. How are we going to hold up?” But then we’d go and play them and we started focusing on playing for each other and that made all the difference. Once we were doing that we were competing with all of these big teams. Did we win all the big games in the end? No, but we were only losing by like one run, and it would be one situation or one home run that would change the course of the game. So to just see how close we were to beating them was really cool to see.
Ben Cason: That’s super cool, you guys obviously got more wins down the stretch. You had that one rough stretch early in the season, and then from there you picked up momentum down to the end. What do you think is going to carry over from this year into next year for your team?
Ashley Tosh: Carrying over from this year to next year will be the confidence we built and that we gelled together. We have a big recruiting class coming in with good pitchers coming in, that will make all the difference. Our pitchers did great this year, but it’s really hard to last a full college season with only four. Having more depth next year will really help us in those four game series’ to keep it together a bit longer. Our offense came through so much in the last half of the season. We keep that side of the ball hot from the get-go next season and we’ll be unstoppable.
