Vidor, Kirbyville ready for softball action

The list of Golden Triangle area softball teams remaining in the state high school playoffs isn't very long. There's Vidor in Class 4A and Kirbyville in Class 3A.

In Vidor's Heather Bobbitt and Kirbyville's Holly Tankersley the teams share something in common with the rest of the state's post-season survivors.

Outstanding pitching.

But Bobbitt and Tankersley have much more in common than that. The two seniors have been teammates for five summers on the Beaumont Blast travel team.

Next year, they'll again be teammates -- at the University of Louisiana-Lafayette. Both signed with the Ragin' Cajuns, who are playing in the College Softball World Series this week.

"Pretty impressive, isn't it?" says Mike Dodson, the Beaumont Blast founder, when asked what he thinks about having his pitchers go so far, both in the high school playoffs and beyond.

"Heather and Holly will both pitch at UL and do very well," he predicts.

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By Dave Rogers
Port Arthur News staff writer