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St. Paul softball: Green scores 12 runs on six hits in 22 games during freshman year

  • East Texas Baptist University and St. Paul Class of 2022 Sydney Green played utility player in her freshman season of softball. She got six hits, five RBI and a double, scoring 12 runs in 22 games batted and had two putouts on defense. Photo courtesy of East Texas Baptist University.
    East Texas Baptist University and St. Paul Class of 2022 Sydney Green played utility player in her freshman season of softball. She got six hits, five RBI and a double, scoring 12 runs in 22 games batted and had two putouts on defense. Photo courtesy of East Texas Baptist University.

    Sydney Green, 2022 St. Paul graduate, played utility in her freshman season (2023) for the East Texas Baptist University Tiger softball team, seeing action at the plate and in the field.
    Green played in both games of the season-opening doubleheader at home against Trinity on Feb. 18.
    In the first game, at the plate, Green hit, 2-2, one run, three RBI, one double, one walk as ETBU won 11-1.
    In the second game, she was 1-for-2, one run, one walk and one hit by pitch as the Lady Tigers took a 13-1 win.
    Green played all three games March 3-4 at Concordia. In the first game (March 3), she was 0-for-0, scoring two runs, three walks, one stolen base on one attempt and one hit by pitch in ETBU’s 6-1 win. In game two (March 3), she went 1-for-2, one run and one hit by pitch as the Lady Tigers won 7-3.
    In the third game of the series (March 4), Green hit  0-for-1 with one strikeout and the Lady Tigers fell 3-1.
    On March 7, Green made one putout on one chance in the field, playing first base, against Southwestern in a 12-0 EBTU win.
    She scored one run in the home game against St. John Fisher in the second game of a doubleheader March 9 as ETBU won 10-2.
    In the first game of home doubleheader against Howard Payne on March 10, Green was walked twice and got one stolen base on one attempt in the Lady Tigers’ 9-1 win. In the second game, she went 0-for-1 with two runs, one walk and one hit by pitch in a 9-1 ETBU win.
    In a single game on March 11, Green was 0-for-3 and one walk as the Lady Tigers earned  9-4 win to take all three games of the series March 10-11. In the second  of a home doubleheader against Illinois Wesleyan on March 16, Green was 1-for-3, one run and one strikeout in a  6-0 win for ETBU.
    She was walked once in a 10-2 win over Eastern Connecticut State at home in the second game of a doubleheader on March 17.
    Green played in two games at Mary Hardin-Baylor on March 24. In the first game, she was 0-for-1with one strikeout as EBTU fell 2-1; in the second game, she was 0-for-3 with one strikeout as the Lady Tigers lost 8-2. Against McMurry  in the first game of a March 31 doubleheader at home, Green was 0-for-1 with one walk in a 3-0 Lady Tiger win. In the field, she made one putout on one chance at right field.
    Against McMurry April 1 in the third game of the three-game series, she hit 0-for-1 with an RBI and the Lady Tigers won 9-0.
    Her next game came against LeTourneau in the second game of a doubleheader  on March 11 and she was 0-for-1 with one strikeout in ETBU’s 3-2 win.
    Green was 0-for-1 with a strikeout in the  second game of a doubleheader at home March 21 against University of Texas-Dallas with ETBU winning 6-1.
    In the March 28  second game of a doubleheader at Ozarks (Arkansas), she was 0-for-1, two runs, one walk, one stolen base on one attempt in the Lady Tigers’ 13-0 win.
    In the second game of a home doubleheader against Sul Ross State on May 5, Green was 0-for-1 with one run scored and EBTU won 9-1.
    Green was 1-for-1 as EBTU lost to Belhaven (Mississippi) 4-0 in the NCAA Division III Marshall Regionals to conclude the season.
    Green batted in 22 total games, started nine games, had 24 at-bats, 12 runs, six hits, five RBI, one double, 12 walks, three stolen bases on three stolen base attempts, four hit by pitch and six strikeouts; her batting average was .250.
    In the field she had two putouts on two total chances for 1.00 fielding.
    The Lady Tigers went 39-7 overall and had a record of 22-5 in American Southwest Conference (ASC) play and won the ASC Tournament for the program’s 11th conference title.