Varsity softball has seen incredible success this Spring season, with a current overall score of 17-3, and is looking forward to League Prelims and CIF.

The team has more confidence and better skill according to varsity coach Ed Tunsen because of beating Irvine 0-6,Yorba Linda away 1-2, Brea home 9-0, and Villa park Home 6-3. Competing in the Sunset League, the team had also won sixth place in the Michelle Carew Classic out of 18 teams.

The team’s four seniors, pitcher Chrys Hildebrand, catcher Hailey Bosley, third base Viviana Vejar, and first base Jasmine Lowe, who have played since freshman year, have led the team to victory.

Hildebrand, the team’s star player and anchor, has improved dramatically in the past year. Tunsen gave praise to junior Sophia Tricoli for her performance at Michelle Carew, doing “a grand slam with two outs in the bottom of the seventh.” At Yorba Linda, Jillian Grimes  did a “pinch hit” to tie the game 1-1, and ended up winning the 2-1.
The seniors explains the team’s success came from the seniors experience starting from the bottom and the team’s sisterhood.

“Going into freshman year, we had our hopes crushed for the first two years,” said Vejar, “our sisterhood kept us together”.

“We are more confident in our playing abilities,” Bosley said, “and we’re with each other and practicing together, bonding over time”.

The girls have a firm belief that they can compete in League and CIF. When asked what they were doing after graduation, the girls gave multiple responses

Hildebrand is signed on to San Jose State after getting an offer there, preferring  the distance from home.

Bosley will go to Tennessee State after being recruited by travel coaches that saw her talent and is excited to go to the amazing college. The most important thing to her was the immediate sisterhood she would be able to attain at the campus.

Bosley said that she preferred “representing schools in other ways besides academics”.

Vejar will stay local at Santiago Canyon Community College, after deciding not to go to the east coast, and says she will fit right in with girls she has played with before.

Lowe said, “I plan to go to the Air Force. I can do college while getting paid learning and get a career, with more experience than straight out of college.”