Did Hinano Bautista just commit?

She committed a little over a week ago (pg 1 of this thread). Interesting she's only listed as a P in that pic

Some hitting clips: https://web.gc.com/athlete/morgancarlson18

Beautiful lefty swing!

Most of her HRs were pure line-drives. With two more years to go, Morgan should be even stronger when she arrives in Berkeley. GO BEARS!

CalFanatic said:

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Some hitting clips: https://web.gc.com/athlete/morgancarlson18

Beautiful lefty swing!

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Why is she trotting down first base after the slap in the first clip?

Second clip, she is agian trotting watching her ball in flight? WTH

Same in third clip. She likes to watch her ball instead of sprinting. sigh

In the fifth clip, it becomes a bang bang play. That close from this angle, could have been called out. Why? Whe watched the ball instead of sprinting down first after the bunt. It's not her job to see if it is foul or a bunt. Her job becomes a spinter to get to first irrespective of foul. It's the first base coach's job to letting her know as she is sprinting. As a slapper, her sole job is to get on base at the top of the lineup. She is senior, this is really rudimentary.

I'm not watching anymore. Having done Malia Rick's game, the sprinting, hitting, smart base running and the speed, I will take Malia any day over Carlson.

Don't come for me, it is just my opinion doing top level high school games.

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What's even more impressive is she hit .378 this summer for Lady Magic with only five strikeouts in 35 total games.

High school ball is one thing, but putting up numbers like that in travel ball is a whole different beast.

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I would not place any weight on BA as they are done by parents who may or may not know the difference between an error and a legit hit.

BearinOC said:

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CalFanatic said:

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What's even more impressive is she hit .378 this summer for Lady Magic with only five strikeouts in 35 total games.

High school ball is one thing, but putting up numbers like that in travel ball is a whole different beast.

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I would not place any weight on BA as they are done by parents who may or may not know the difference between an error and a legit hit.

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Ha! I've gotten so much crap over the years for robbing kids of their GC/maxpreps #s...

cal fanatic, has it ever occurred to you that maybe telesco wuz tired of working for a mentally unstable bully who alienated players, their families and other coaches which resulted in the cal softball program totally blowing up is a direct reflection of the poor evaluation/decision making by worthless current co athletic director ****tard jennifer simon-o'neil who enabled and failed to protect the suicidal women's swimmer from another bully, jenny apparently didn't learn anything from that abuse & is continuing her career marked by literally failure after failure while working against the cal football & men's basketball programs

she's really just a bad human being who is both arrogant and a worthless bureaucrat, hopefully the chancellor will throw the trash out soon

In the SF Chronicle this morning, they have Livermore softball ranked #1 in the Bay Area over perennial power St Francis-Mountain View. Livermore is a public school and stands 23-1. St Francis (23-2) & Archbishop Mitty (21-3) are private schools from the WCAL that follow right behind...

Schroeder71 said:

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In the SF Chronicle this morning, they have Livermore softball ranked #1 in the Bay Area over perennial power St Francis-Mountain View. Livermore is a public school and stands 23-1. St Francis (23-2) & Archbishop Mitty (21-3) are private schools from the WCAL that follow right behind...

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One of Livermore's top players is 2027 commit Gianna Willes. In addition to being undefeated in EBAL games, they won the Livermore Stampede tourney by beating Willow Glen (featuring Alanna Clincy) in the semis and St. Francis in the final, so their ranking is pretty well deserved at this point.

The reason that i brought up Livermore was because of Gianna Willes. The Livermore Stampede is certainly an advantage for Livermore High, however. GO BEARS!

Any info on potential portal players coming to Cal?

Might be a bit too early to know.

The NCAA Division I softball transfer portal for the 2026 season will be open from June 8 to June 22, 2026.

Thanks for info. Need some players from the portal

Cal desperately needs a couple of experienced pitchers for next season. GO BEARS!

Singleton is following some key players who've already hit the portal. That was my first clue with the (very) successful women's basketball transfer portal class this season. It's a different world from when Ninemire was getting Shannon Thomas or Katie Vickers to transfer…

I would hope the addition of Coach Singleton would payoff with an upgraded pitching staff. I believe our previous coach failed miserably in that area.

You think the previous staff failed? I thought we did ok but they all transferred because of the chaos they created by cheating and un-kosher sexual behavior with the players.

BearinOC said:

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they created by cheating and un-kosher sexual behavior with the players.

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..please PM me more!

As I sit here watching the Women's College World Series, I started to reflect on the year of Cal softball and I can't stay quiet about it any longer.

Let's talk about the elephant in the room.

Taking on a head coaching role for the first time at the Division I level is a challenge anyone would acknowledge. There's a learning curve. That's understood and, frankly, expected. What's not acceptable is how that adjustment period played out not behind closed doors, but on the field, in front of the athletes you were hired to develop.

From early in the season, the narrative became clear: this wasn't his team. He didn't recruit them. He was "left" with them. We heard it repeatedly from the dugout, to opposing coaches, apparently even to a UCLA coach mid-game while wearing a UCLA hat on Jackie Robinson Day. Not a Cal hat. A UCLA hat. The UCLA coach's response said everything: "You've been here a year. Develop them." She was right.

Those aren't just optics. That is a head coach publicly disowning his own roster while his players are on the field competing. And it didn't stop there.

On multiple occasions, this coach told his players outright that he gives up. That he can't wait for the season to be over. He told them he hates this team. When that landed the way it should have, the correction offered was that he meant he "hates coaching this team." Let that sink in. That's not a clarification. That's not better. That is a head coach, on the record, telling his players he doesn't want to be there and then doubling down on it. Those aren't private frustrations vented in a staff meeting. Those are statements made directly to the athletes in his charge. The psychological damage of a head coach declaring surrender to the people depending on his leadership cannot be overstated. Tearing down team spirit isn't a coaching philosophy. It's a failure of the most basic responsibility of the role.

On the field, the issues were just as glaring. The offensive identity imported from his Texas assistant coaching days amounted to one thing: home runs or bust. That's not a strategy that's a highlight reel wish. Winning softball is built on patience, on-base percentage, stringing together walks, situational hitting. You don't have to take our word for it; look at the box scores of championship programs. The long ball matters, but it is rarely what wins games consistently.

Defensive decisions appeared arbitrary at best and punitive at worst moving players out of position, deploying athletes at spots they'd never played. If the intent was to experiment and develop depth, that's a conversation. But done mid-season without apparent rationale, it reads as punishment. The question is: punishment for what, and at whose expense?

The pitching situation deserves its own conversation. Halfway through a season, a coaching staff should have made meaningful adjustments with their pitching corps. That didn't happen. Whether the pitching coach is still finding her footing at the D1 level is a fair question. It raises a broader one about how the staff was assembled and whether hiring decisions were made with the program's needs first and foremost.

And then there's this: a comment made during a game about an opposing baserunner that she "isn't fast, she only looks fast because she's Black." There is no context that makes that acceptable. None. That kind of statement has no place in this sport, this program, or any locker room or dugout at any level. It is disqualifying on its own.

As exit interviews arrived, it became apparent the plan was to clear the roster and "start over" with his own recruits. What was lost in that calculation is the group of talented, competitive athletes who spent a season being told in words and in actions that their coach had already moved on from them. They deserved better. They deserved a coach who would have looked at that roster and found a way. That's the job.

Developing players you didn't recruit is not a consolation prize of the head coaching role. It is the head coaching role.

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To the players:

I'm sorry. I'm sorry you faced the adversity you did this season. I'm sorry you weren't respected by the person who was supposed to have your back more than anyone. I'm sorry you weren't developed, weren't believed in, and were made to feel like a burden instead of the talented athletes you are. I'm sorry you were let down at a level this profound.

And I'm especially sorry to those of you who have lost faith in Cal softball or who feel the portal is your only option because staying feels hopeless. That is not on you. That is never on you.

You came to Cal. You put in the work. You showed up every day for a program and a coach who didn't show up for you. That says everything about your character and nothing about your worth as athletes or competitors.

Cal softball is bigger than one bad season and one bad coach. You deserved so much better.

I have no inside knowledge of the truth regarding the above allegations. I did notice lots of strange things going on last season with the utilization of the players. The pitching did not seem to improve either.

I will be curious to see the personnel changes for next season and whether or not the team performance improves with this coaching staff. The only coach that did a decent job last season seemed to be the hitting coach. I hope that HC Singleton is not guilty of all of the claims made above. The truth shall likely become self-evident over the next couple of seasons. I did not notice the team morale decline noticeably as the season progressed. I'm also not aware of any of his assistant coaches planning to bail out of the program. If the situation was as bad as reported, one would expect departures of players and assistants.

BearinOC said:

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You think the previous staff failed? I thought we did ok but they all transferred because of the chaos they created by cheating and un-kosher sexual behavior with the players.

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I do not know specifically the internal issues of the previous coaching staff, but I do believe they failed to develop the pitching staff and let the best pitcher transfer to Georgia. Anybody following Cal softball could tell something was missing. I would agree there was talent, but that talent was not developed. To me, Cal lacked a work horse pitcher that most really good teams have.

BearinOC said:

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I noticed this is your second post on this site and just started posting last month, yet you seem to have intimate knowledge of the team. Suffice it to say, you are likely either a player or a player's parent.
Your description of Coach Steve appears out of character to me, based on my own interactions with him. Regardless, I am going to chalk it up to him encouraging certain players to enter the portal.

I do want to thank the players who are entering the portal for wearing the Cal uniform and doing their best; I am forever grateful for their contributions. However, Cal deserves top talent, and I believe he is likely just trying to make room for such players.

Go Bears!

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Yeah, I'm sorry. I don't believe this post. Reminder folks: Anyone can come on here and just claim to be anyone or anything. If a post goes against the character and reviews of virtually every coach, player and person involved in the sport it's likely…untrue.

I appreciate every player who put on the Cal uniform and battled game in and game out this year. Onward and upward!

I hear you, and I genuinely respect that you're looking out for people's reputations that matters.

What I'd ask is this: the players who went through this season also have reputations worth protecting. Their experience is worth taking seriously, even when it's hard to hear. Doubt is reasonable. But defaulting to 'probably untrue' because it conflicts with someone's public image is how these situations stay buried.

I'd also point to something observable: this team managed to win a series when the head coach wasn't in the dugout. You can draw your own conclusions, but it's worth asking whether that timing was just luck or whether it says something about the environment he created.

I'm not asking for a conviction on a social media post. I'm asking people to hold space for the possibility that these athletes deserved better. That's why I wrote it.

In a battle of Cal recruits, Mikayla Finn (2027) and Del Oro defeats Alanna Clincy (2026) and Willow Glen to advance to the D2 Northern California championship.

Finn pitches 5 innings and gives up 0 runs. Clincy pitches 4 innings and gives up 1 earned run.