Belvidere North has four slap hitters that can produce at the plate and Oregon has three. Those just happen to be teams that are hovering at or near the top of the early-season standings in the NIC-10 ...

Angie DeLuca strikes fear into the opposing team’s defense when she steps in the batter’s box. The Sachem North senior stands at 5-1 and isn’t known for power. So why is DeLuca such a threat? She’s a ...

JT Gasso saw a problem. OU softball’s associate head coach was frustrated at the number of his hitters who were getting called out for stepping out of the batter’s box during their slap-hitting ...

HADDON HEIGHTS – One wouldn't blame Gianna Iuvara if she was a little hesitant about slap hitting at first. When her town softball coach approached her with the idea, there was a pretty big problem.

Shirey is part of a growing phenomenon in softball today - from the high school ranks to the professional game - that is slap hitting, a strategy designed to place stress on the defense and provide ...

A SLAP tear can be a serious injury no matter your age or professional level. It is common in baseball and softball pitchers, position players and other athletes who do a lot of overhead arm motions ...

The Notre Dame Bulldogs are heading back to the final four with new players, new roles and new jerseys. But one thing remains the same -- they bunt, slap and run like crazy. "Using speed and putting ...

Top-seeded Taunton softball defeated No. 8 Bridgewater-Raynham 2-0 to advance to the Division 1 Final Four for the fifth consecutive year. Taunton pitcher Cate Larson allowed only two hits and struck ...

It has to be one of the more unsettling things for a defense, watching Kalista Birkenstock stride to the plate. Because there is a tacit acknowledgment that, even if a quality pitch is made and it ...