The Boro Buzz Episode 7: The Cougar Duo!

In this episode we bring on Cougar softball standouts Nauttica Parrish & Kami Dunn! They talk about their state title run and more! You may even see a tumble!!! Only HERE on THE BORO BUZZ!!!
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unknown 1:06

I'm doing great.

SPEAKER_04 1:06

Good. And uh I remember that interview was kind of uh very interesting. I just came up here throwing the well, how'd you describe it?

SPEAKER_02 1:12

I was like, just throw them a nautica, and you come up and videoed out the quarterfile. I was like, oh my gosh, who is this guy?

SPEAKER_04 1:18

Who is this weirdo?

SPEAKER_03 1:19

And we're dancing, so we're just like, yeah, keep dancing.

SPEAKER_04 1:23

Um before we kick into about softball, uh, Nautica, kudos. You uh had a strong finish to your basketball season this year.

SPEAKER_03 1:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:30

Yeah, senior season. How's that make you feel? I mean, pretty good, right?

SPEAKER_03 1:33

I'm not a senior.

SPEAKER_04 1:35

You're not a senior. Why do I think you're a senior? I know you're a senior, right?

SPEAKER_03 1:37

It's because I hang out with like Now and Cammy and all the.

SPEAKER_04 1:40

You're always with him, so I guess I just assumed you were a senior. You're a junior?

SPEAKER_03 1:43

I'm a junior.

SPEAKER_04 1:44

So Baxter's got you one more year in basketball.

SPEAKER_03 1:46

Yep.

SPEAKER_04 1:46

Okay, well, since before we kick in the softball, Jordan threw him under the bridge and said that he takes like 30 showers even before the game he changes his outfits. Is there anything else about Baxter we can uh call him out on?

SPEAKER_03 1:56

Well, Campbell's really gonna like this one. He has these really cringy quotes he gets off the internet, and he even has an app that he uses, and the best one is the best one ever was Bounce Like a Ball. And we make fun of him for that because we were fixing to play a game and he was like, Come on, girls, let's bounce like a ball. And I sit in the locker room and I started crying, laughing, and I didn't want him to get mad at me, so I was just like kind of covering my face, and he looked at me, he's like, Why are you crying? And I start dying laughing. I couldn't help it. Everybody started dying.

SPEAKER_02 2:25

I love watching him walk through school with his different outfits on. And the other day he came in with like an all-blue sweat, and he had on like royal blue Nike dunks, and he looked like a blueberry. I was like, Oh my god. I said, Wow, nice fit you got on there.

SPEAKER_03 2:39

Yeah, sometimes we'll tell him he has a nice fit, but he doesn't know we're being a smart aleck. I love you, Baxter.

SPEAKER_04 2:47

We love you though, bro. We love you. I had to ask, I had to ask. That's hilarious. All right, let's get into some softball. How about that? Um, if someone was watching this and they didn't know about Southwestern uh Randolph softball, how would you describe it?

SPEAKER_03 2:58

Or it went in tradition.

SPEAKER_04 2:59

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 3:00

That was good. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 3:01

That was good.

SPEAKER_03 3:02

That's what we're known for.

SPEAKER_04 3:03

That was uh you nailed it out of the parking. Or the slap hit, right? You just walk up and slap it.

SPEAKER_03 3:07

Oh, yeah. So mine's not going very far.

SPEAKER_04 3:10

You got good slap hit?

SPEAKER_03 3:11

I do slap hit. Okay. I don't hit right hand. I used to hit right-handed, and then they switched me my eighth grade year, and I've been slapping ever since.

SPEAKER_04 3:18

So you have to be a lefty to slap, right? Yeah. See, I look I learned something last year. Look, see?

unknown 3:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 3:22

Cammy laughed at me the whole time when I was doing that. You know, I saw I have a video of her that I filmed where she's on the third base. I guess y'all just scored. She looks back and she's like, I don't know if you remember that in the highlight video.

SPEAKER_02 3:35

Yeah, I always get pumped.

SPEAKER_04 3:36

That's gotta be special. So y'all part of that state championship run in 0424, right? Oh yeah. How was that? Talk about that season, the culture, the fun you had with Strider and all them, and uh the OG himself, uh Chapman.

SPEAKER_03 3:48

Oh yeah. Man, the atmosphere I really think is like grown me as an athlete. Like, I don't think I'd be where I am without that season.

SPEAKER_02 3:54

That was un that was just unforgettable. Like it was crazy. It was a crazy feeling being there, going through it. It was crazy. I can't even I feel like I can't even describe it.

SPEAKER_03 4:04

We really we really were talking about it at practice today. Like, we had did not have like crazy talent on our team in our freshman the 2024, my freshman year. But like our mentality really carried us through that season.

SPEAKER_00 4:16

Wow.

SPEAKER_02 4:17

I remember I was like, we were going through it, and Toby kept saying stuff about like winning, like going to the state championship. I thought, God, this guy's crazy. Like, we are not winning this at all. We could barely hit the ball. Yeah. And then when we beat West Wilkes, there was one base runner all game for us, and they had base runners on all the time. Like they would get bases loaded with no outs and not score.

SPEAKER_00 4:36

Oh wow.

SPEAKER_02 4:36

And I was thinking, dang, and then Madeline hit a leadoff triple, and that was the only run we scored. After we won that game, I was like, dang.

SPEAKER_03 4:44

After Alyssa's sacrifice hit.

SPEAKER_02 4:45

Yeah. After that, we knew.

SPEAKER_04 4:47

Yeah, so y'all had no no no you didn't think y'all were gonna win state. It's okay to me.

SPEAKER_02 4:50

No, no, not. Oh no, I thought Toby was crazy.

SPEAKER_03 4:53

I was like Well, I like after like that week where we like lost every game, I was like, a lot of us were defeated. And Toby always says something, it's like, what is it? Yesterday is in the past, tomorrow's a mystery, live in the present.

SPEAKER_04 5:07

Sounds like a fortune cookie.

SPEAKER_03 5:08

Yeah, his quotes are amazing. But they genuinely help. Yeah, they're not.

SPEAKER_04 5:12

Are they better than the maxers?

SPEAKER_03 5:14

Yes. Yeah. But like we could have came to practice that week after. Like, I just got done writing a paper about this for school, the state championship. And why not us? Not letting somebody else's expectations control your outcomes. And after we lost that, like the week straight of us losing, like, we could have came to practice and just been done already. But we weren't. Like we wanted we wanted to be better. And we like we had three hour practices that week, and not even on purpose. We never noticed.

SPEAKER_02 5:39

Got carried away. And we worked on bunting. I don't even like every single day of the week of live pitching. And I vividly remember one time he put the net so close to us and threw the ball, and we were about to play North Stanley and was throwing the ball high like it was gonna rise like that. It was getting bad because we weren't hitting it. He was like, This is what y'all were gonna see if we were standing there like just swing before he even loads back. I mean, he was like from me to you, like he was so close. I was like, What are we doing?

SPEAKER_04 6:11

So, what is Toby and Chapman like?

SPEAKER_03 6:13

Oh, Toby's great. Chapman's the like the low-key coach that like absorbs and takes. He's just soaking in, like, yeah, he really absorbs that and he's great on first base. When you get there, you just get that fist bump and he knows you just know like he's locked up.

SPEAKER_04 6:25

No, he was my football coach at my freshman year.

SPEAKER_03 6:27

No way.

SPEAKER_04 6:27

Yeah, yeah. He was the he was the quarterback coach at Ashburg. Yeah, and his son was the JV head coach. Oh, that's what's funny. So every time I see him, I laugh, I'm like, hey, there's a quarterback coach. And I didn't know he was into softball like he is.

SPEAKER_03 6:39

Oh, yeah. That's crazy. That's crazy.

SPEAKER_04 6:41

Who's the other? I'm I feel like I'm missing a coach.

SPEAKER_03 6:43

We have a bunch. Yeah. I think we have like four.

SPEAKER_02 6:45

Now we have more.

SPEAKER_04 6:46

Okay. I was saying because I last year when I filmed, I thought there was like three or four of them in the Dug It Out.

SPEAKER_02 6:51

Now we have, well, we had last year Kevin Healin.

SPEAKER_00 6:54

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 6:55

Um, and Taylor Pugh. She helped a lot. She went to Lenoran. Okay. And now we got Heaven Maynis. She played at Wing It. She'll be in the hallway at all four years. Yeah. She was really good. Who else we got? We have Haley Epps.

SPEAKER_03 7:08

She does like our game on, like our game changer and stuff like that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 7:11

Yeah. Well, it's funny is uh I feel like uh there's a our sponsor of this episode is just keep swinging. Um Curtis and Kelly Cole, you know. Oh my gosh, I love this. They're awesome. The swag. They do good swag. I mean, they they look at this hat. I mean, it's pretty good.

SPEAKER_03 7:24

It's great. It looks great.

SPEAKER_04 7:25

I know. I'm gonna use I have to use them for all my gear, man. They're they're awesome. But uh yeah, we were talking, I learned softball at that tournament. Were you you were there when I went to the knockouts, right? That was fun. I learned a lot. Uh, you were you on the knockouts or no?

SPEAKER_02 7:36

No, I'm actually on there this year.

SPEAKER_04 7:37

Oh, are you? Yeah, yeah. Did you recruit her? Don't lie.

SPEAKER_03 7:40

No, I didn't. I played, I mean, I told her she'd have more fun, but like I mean, it was obvious.

SPEAKER_04 7:45

But yeah, well, I'll I'll be there at that summer, same same tournament actually this summer. Really? Yeah, yeah, filming. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So watch it.

SPEAKER_03 7:50

We're gonna have a lot of fun.

SPEAKER_04 7:51

Oh gosh, I feel like I should mic y'all up secretly.

SPEAKER_03 7:53

Oh, we can't be micro.

SPEAKER_02 7:55

Me and Ani in the outfield is like insane. We were talking about that the other day at practice because Kenlin was like, let's mic each other up. I was like, I'm not gonna.

SPEAKER_04 8:02

Why? Why, Cammy? Why can't we mic you up? What are we gonna hear?

SPEAKER_02 8:05

There's I mean, there's no telling me.

SPEAKER_04 8:07

Monica, what are we gonna hear?

SPEAKER_02 8:08

Sometimes stuff just comes out of your mouth, you know?

SPEAKER_04 8:11

PG 13.

SPEAKER_02 8:12

Oh, yeah. Like if the batter swings it one over the head, I'm like, oh my gosh, what is that girl swinging at? I just talk to myself in the outfit a lot.

SPEAKER_03 8:20

Sometimes I'll sing. Yeah, I sing.

SPEAKER_04 8:23

What's your go-to song?

SPEAKER_03 8:25

Oh Kurt, right now it's Sam Hunt, any Sam Hunt song right now. Take your time. Yeah, last year was my walkout song fancy. Oh, yeah. When I got up to my up to bat, leading off my walk-up song, I would sing it while I was playing.

SPEAKER_04 8:38

So, what's your walk-up songs this year?

SPEAKER_03 8:40

Uh Washed by Elevation Rhythm. Mine is my love by JT.

SPEAKER_04 8:44

Okay, okay. And y'all uh y'all y'all got a pretty good squad this year, wouldn't you say?

SPEAKER_02 8:48

Pretty talented.

SPEAKER_04 8:49

I heard y'all just picked up a player. Bristol?

SPEAKER_03 8:51

We picked up two players.

SPEAKER_04 8:52

Two players, okay. So you got Bristol and who else?

SPEAKER_03 8:54

Uh Caitlin West.

SPEAKER_04 8:56

Are they pretty solid players to the team?

SPEAKER_03 8:57

Absolutely, yeah. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_04 8:58

How would you describe this too? What they can bring to the team. Because you I mean, you guys have set a culture of winning, you know, it's consistent. Um, I remember when my brother went to Southwest, his senior year, junior year, y'all won state.

SPEAKER_03 9:08

Yeah. Um I would describe them as like hard workers. I mean, they definitely fit into the description of somebody that could play at Southwest. It's always a um like a team effort. They they're really good at doing that.

SPEAKER_04 9:20

It's gotta mean a lot though that like y'all y'all are saying this of something you built. I mean, you're a junior, correct? Yeah, yeah. And you're a senior. You're looking at this, and now you're like, okay, people wanna be a part of this. Like you've built, like, you you've have you had a losing season in your four years, Cammy?

SPEAKER_02 9:35

No.

SPEAKER_04 9:36

That's pretty hard to do.

SPEAKER_03 9:37

I mean, not to be like, no, but no. I mean, we like we work hard every day. It's always about being the best teammate. Like we never like we never focus on like trying to be the best player, and I think that's what really like makes us a great team.

unknown 9:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 9:50

Yeah, and y'all had a pretty solid pitcher last year, Crutchfield. Uh, how's it gonna go this year without her? I know you're gonna miss her.

SPEAKER_02 9:56

We are gonna miss her tremendously, but I feel like growing, I feel like she's also helped us grow a lot, and I feel like Alyssa's growing a lot, and now that we have Kate, like that's a big thing. Chloe's growing a lot.

SPEAKER_04 10:08

And is Kate a pitcher? Yeah, she is.

SPEAKER_03 10:11

She's a pitcher and she plays first base.

SPEAKER_04 10:13

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 10:14

I think we're gonna be good. I think Alyssa's gonna really do good. She's I know she's locked in. She pitched in the Oak Grove game the other day, and she did great. Everybody did great. Yeah, Alyssa has like barely anybody here. No, barely in that game.

SPEAKER_04 10:26

I'll say I remember because that's that's some big shoes I feel. Because I mean, I feel like all three games I called of y'all's, and even the one I filmed, Macy had like daggum 14 strikeouts.

SPEAKER_02 10:35

Oh, she's a great pitcher. She had so many. She has so many strikeouts. And like I loved playing third with her because I could predict when the ball was gonna come down.

SPEAKER_03 10:42

That's why I love playing left field with her. I knew like if you pitch the pitches called, I knew exactly where to stand. Okay, I'm like, yeah, me and not.

SPEAKER_04 10:48

It was funny because Toby cracked a joke about when I did an interview with Macy. She's like, I don't know what she's gonna say, but you can you can't.

SPEAKER_02 10:54

Yeah, you never know. But she goes by dumber.

SPEAKER_03 10:57

Yeah, that's dub. She's dumber.

SPEAKER_04 11:00

So y'all got y'all are pretty close in on that.

SPEAKER_03 11:02

Uh I'd say I'm a lot smarter than her.

SPEAKER_04 11:04

Oh wow.

SPEAKER_03 11:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 11:05

Macy's gonna be listening to this. Yeah, she's you're gonna be seeing her soon. Isn't she at Kataba today?

SPEAKER_03 11:09

Yeah, she is at Katawa.

SPEAKER_04 11:10

Congratulations. As we're filming this today, you committed to Kataba, right?

SPEAKER_03 11:13

I'm really excited about that.

SPEAKER_04 11:14

What made you want to go to softball instead of basketball?

SPEAKER_03 11:17

Oh, basketball's not my forte.

SPEAKER_04 11:19

I don't know. Nautica, you had a pretty good finish to your basketball season junior year.

SPEAKER_03 11:22

Yeah, it's just softball's always been what I love, like the stuff you learn, the people you're around.

SPEAKER_04 11:27

It's just I like it's the atmosphere so much more than what's the old s the songs I remember they used to sing as like down by the river. You remember those?

SPEAKER_02 11:35

Our elementary school chant. Yeah. I love this. I love when we're like hitting live or something, or we're doing 21 ounce in practice, and Toby will be like, one down, two to go, one down two to go.

SPEAKER_04 11:46

He sings it. Yes, and Toby sings it.

SPEAKER_03 11:48

And he'll hit his little leg kit because you do a leg kit.

SPEAKER_04 11:51

Does he have the gator? He's driving it while you say one, two.

SPEAKER_02 11:54

But I played I've played for him since I was like six, five or six. Okay. And he used to do them when we were little. So it cracks me up when he does it. I'm like, oh my god.

SPEAKER_04 12:04

So y'all really have that love for Coach Strider.

SPEAKER_02 12:06

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_03 12:06

Yeah, I think my senior, my senior game this year is gonna be pretty hard. I genuinely don't know where I'd be as an athlete if I didn't have him as a head coach. Me either.

SPEAKER_02 12:16

I think he's one of the very few coaches that I've had. I think I've had one other coach that's played a different role in my life that's really important. But Toby's always the coach that no matter if you're not doing good or you're the best version that he's ever seen of you, he's always gonna be one of your biggest supporters.

SPEAKER_04 12:34

Were y'all there with Benji Cole? He's one of my favorites. Oh I love missing Benji Cole.

SPEAKER_03 12:38

I love Benji.

SPEAKER_04 12:39

Benji's my go-to. Uh I I coach at Nam's basketball, and he is my go-to all year. We probably talk once a week.

SPEAKER_03 12:44

He's the goofiest dude ever. He's our first base coach in the summer.

SPEAKER_04 12:49

Is he?

SPEAKER_03 12:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 12:49

Oh my gosh, I love it. I that's that's what's so funny because him and Strider co-coaches on that knockouts team, right? Yep. That's hilarious. Yeah, Benji's a pretty funny guy. He'll crack some jokes. But yeah, that's so Toby means that once too. So what when did see I thought he would give it? I thought after this year maybe would be his last year, but I forget he has another one coming up.

SPEAKER_02 13:08

She does, she's a freshman.

SPEAKER_04 13:09

And like the the culture and the vibe, didn't y'all just the middle school just win it again, so it's just gonna keep rebuilding every year, right?

SPEAKER_02 13:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 13:16

Did y'all win it in middle school as well?

SPEAKER_03 13:17

I have no idea. Yeah, we did.

SPEAKER_04 13:19

Well how do you not remember Nautica?

SPEAKER_03 13:21

Oh, wait, when we were there?

SPEAKER_04 13:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 13:23

Oh, yeah, we did.

SPEAKER_04 13:24

She's like, Yeah, maybe. I don't remember. I don't.

SPEAKER_02 13:27

My seventh grade year was COVID year, but I remember vividly we won, is it like called the conference championship? Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 13:33

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 13:34

Uh my sixth and eighth grade year. I remember that.

SPEAKER_04 13:37

I got some awesome coaches. Uh that's kind of cool. They all have per different personalities. You got Baxter, Toby, Chapman, Coach Cole. Like there's gotta be Southwest has gotta be, you know, tug at your heart strength. Talk about the school as a whole and how much Southwestern Randolph high school means to you both.

SPEAKER_03 13:53

Um, I genuinely think it means a lot to me. Like, I when I think about the future, like I would like my kids together, like our teachers care about us a lot. Yeah, and they're very flexible. I mean, I learn a lot, I learned a lot at Southwest, so I'm being honest with you. And um, they're very supportive. They'll come to some games, and the their biggest thing is just being your biggest fan, and it makes you feel really good.

SPEAKER_02 14:13

It's so cool to like walk down the hallway and everybody be like, You got a game tonight.

SPEAKER_04 14:18

Yeah, you know, even a new principle y'all got this year, right?

SPEAKER_02 14:20

Yeah, and he's very involved with sports. Yeah, so like I don't know if you're gonna be able to do it. That's hard to find. That's hard to find. Yeah, he's pretty involved, yeah. And which is really cool. But I remember the year we were going to the state championship, and they did it for soccer this year, too. Like, they call everybody out of class, and everybody lines up with the whole.

SPEAKER_03 14:37

You have to walk. Okay, well, they were playing a band for us, and we had to walk around in front of the whole school. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 14:42

I figured you two would do something silly.

SPEAKER_02 14:44

Oh, I did. I yelled the whole entire time. Maddie was like, Oh my goodness.

SPEAKER_03 14:48

But everybody was acting embarrassed. Yeah. It's like, dude, we're going to the state championship. They know me and Kimmy at this point. We're literally gonna say anything that comes to our mind.

SPEAKER_02 14:55

Yeah, and we don't care. Like, I could care less what anybody on the school thinks about me. Yeah. So I'm just like walking around that hallways yelling. Everybody's like, whoa! And then you got the quiet people.

SPEAKER_04 15:04

I feel like a lot of people are laughing that are listening to this podcast right now. They're like, this is this is Naika and Cammy.

SPEAKER_02 15:10

This is that. I told Naunica coming up here, I was like, this is gonna be a lot of personality. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 15:15

I mean, it's it's funny because I feel like last year and just filming, and that's what people forget, when you have that video camera, you get to know these athletes like you two, and that's why I was like, these two would be the perfect to bring on. I was like, this would be the I was like, I ain't no telling what I'm gonna poor poor poor Medley, he's always got to edit for this. Uh he's probably gonna be laughing and like, oh Lord. Yeah. But I told I told him before y'all got here, I said, man, I said, I couldn't think of two better personalities to put together. Um, my first episode, I had Nivea and uh Naima. They were they were pretty, pretty good. Yeah, um, and then you two together, I knew. As soon as I had those two, I was like, man, softball season's here. I'm getting Nautica and Cammy. I hate, I couldn't get Maddie, but I'm gonna save her and bring her and Emery on together.

SPEAKER_02 15:53

So yeah, she's been talking about it. She was talking about it this morning in class.

SPEAKER_04 15:56

Yeah, I told him I said, let's push off and get a same schedule because I wanted you two together, and then I want Emery and her because I want them to talk smack.

SPEAKER_03 16:02

Yes, yeah, definitely not definitely happened. I'm not a good smack talker.

SPEAKER_04 16:06

Are you sure? Because I feel like you do. I see you in the zone. You're clap. I don't know if it's just you're excited, but I see you clapping and getting it.

SPEAKER_02 16:11

I feel like I clap and yell. And I mean, in the dugout, we we pretty much yell.

SPEAKER_04 16:15

You literally just told me, and I'm not gonna say on air what the what the saying is, but you know, that that's trash talk. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 16:20

Well, I like trash talk, like kind of like I'd be like, let's go, Lissa, but like I'm saying it in a really cocky way as to like strike this girl out.

unknown 16:27

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 16:28

Like, but my trash talk's never like and unless I'm in the dugout. Like if somebody knows a ball in dirt, I'm like, dirty ball. Macy used to be the bitch.

SPEAKER_02 16:36

She would do this voice, and it was like, I can't do it because it like I can't. It's agitating.

SPEAKER_04 16:42

Try it, try it, Lissa. We gotta hear it.

SPEAKER_02 16:44

Dirty ball. That's that is exactly what it's like. Yes, and she'll like she used to open the gate and she would yell, and then she'll close it. And then she'd look at you like this. She'd go, she did something wrong.

SPEAKER_03 16:56

Yeah, it was what is Toby and then they're just like sometimes Toby will be like, hey, it depends on what we're saying. Don't do that again. Yeah, or like he really doesn't say much. He's really good about having fun and being serious at the same time.

SPEAKER_04 17:07

Yeah, so he knows when when the line's drawn and when I would love to just have a mic in y'all's dugout because there ain't no telling what I'm gonna hear.

SPEAKER_02 17:15

I wish you had a mic on our dugout Oak Grove game. Oh yeah, it does.

SPEAKER_04 17:19

This year, the one that just happened?

SPEAKER_03 17:20

Oh yeah, I think that was the loudest our dugout was gonna be good. Because that's how our travel team on their team and then on our team. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 17:27

So do y'all just have like code words to the other team that they know when you're talking smack? Or like because I feel like what y'all are saying to each other in the audience are probably like the crowds like, man, they're being ugly, but y'all are actually really just having fun at each other.

SPEAKER_02 17:39

Yeah, and I think the biggest game like that is random. Because I'll hear like like I have friends.

SPEAKER_04 17:44

You and Kenzie Ivey go after each other over there.

SPEAKER_02 17:46

Uh we yeah, we do yellow wall. We yell at railing to rivals. Addie D's, Kaylee, Kinsey. Okay, like we're all going back and forth, but we like them. Yeah, they're good too. Yeah, like me and Addy grew up playing together, and it's fun to play against them because like they're not taking it to heart. Yeah. But like the parents are like, dang, y'all are so obnoxious. Like, yeah. That's what we do.

SPEAKER_04 18:09

What's the fun as like I know we're getting a little further into this, but uh, what's the funniest memory that you have with softball? Each one of you, it's gotta be different. It could be the same, I guess, if it is.

SPEAKER_02 18:19

So I played for Toby when I was young, like 10U. That was like when we entered travel ball.

SPEAKER_00 18:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 18:24

And like kids are just now pitching us. Well, me, Maddie Strider was on the team. There's some girls from Randoman. Kaylee, Katie Green, okay, was on the team.

SPEAKER_04 18:33

Yeah, good athlete right there.

SPEAKER_02 18:35

Yes, yeah, really good. Haley Henshaw was on the team too. I don't think she plays softball anymore. Camden Scott was on the team.

SPEAKER_00 18:41

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 18:41

And Toby used to put in these teeth when we would do bad. Oh, yeah. And he would come out there and he would get mad, and he like his neck, you know, he's a redhead, his neck will turn red, and he's like, I'm grit my teeth. Y'all look like bad news bears out here. And he's got these fake teeth in. And if you go on his is a buckhorn shredder. Yes, buckhorn outdoors, he puts them in. I'm like, oh. He's kept them that long. Yeah. And he would wear them out there, and I'm vividly like that is hilarious. I used to think it was so funny.

SPEAKER_04 19:08

Oh my goodness. And uh, as we get close to wrapping up, um, I like to do a little fun thing. Um, it's it's like an icebreaker. I call them quick hitters, but in softball, I don't think there's really a quick hitter, I guess, unless you just swing for the first, you know, at bat. But uh, if you you can't think, you just gotta say off the top of your head.

SPEAKER_02 19:25

Oh gosh.

SPEAKER_04 19:26

And all right, you ready?

SPEAKER_02 19:27

I have to edit something.

SPEAKER_04 19:29

Who is the teammate most likely to forget their equipment?

SPEAKER_03 19:33

This was Macy Crutchfield. Yeah, this was Macy Crutch. She's not there in Crutchfield. She came to practice one day with nothing.

unknown 19:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 19:40

Nothing to practice.

SPEAKER_03 19:41

And she was crying.

SPEAKER_04 19:42

Oh no.

SPEAKER_03 19:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 19:44

Who who's the teammate that'd be late for the bus?

SPEAKER_03 19:46

Probably me now. Yeah, now it's Nautica. Why?

SPEAKER_04 19:50

Why are you late for the bus?

SPEAKER_03 19:51

I just take naps and I get home. I don't have fourth block and I take naps and then I get lazy.

SPEAKER_02 19:55

And she'll roll up with like a whole tray of food in a to-go box. And it's like home cooked food. I'm like, bro, stop.

SPEAKER_03 20:03

Where did you get this food from?

SPEAKER_04 20:07

That's pretty good. Who uh what it the funniest. This isn't, I don't know if you I'm trying to think how I want to wear this one. Uh I have it right here. Let's see. Where we go. Who has the funniest player on the team this year?

SPEAKER_03 20:23

Wow, that's a lot of us. Yeah, it is. It's gotta be like me, Cami, Maddie. I think it's me and Maylee on the slide. Oh yeah, probably me, Cammy, and Mayley. Maddie chimes in a little bit. Maybe is hilarious. Maddie's funny one, but you have to like joke with her first.

SPEAKER_04 20:38

What do you mean, like this?

SPEAKER_03 20:39

Well, we start well, we'll really get out at get out at practice. Yesterday, I was slapping and Cammy was at third, and Maddie was at short, and I hit a ball, and Maddie backhanded it, and I was running really slow, for me, slow, and she got me out and I said, You just wait till I get back up. And I hit it to Cammy, and I crossed the bag, and I turned and I said, Yeah, die, boom. And then I said something else. And we were just that's like the biggest trash talkers, me, Maddie, and Kimmy, and then we started going scuba, scuba.

SPEAKER_02 21:06

We do it too much.

SPEAKER_04 21:07

Y'all's practices must be wild. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 21:09

That's when I was like, Where's sports in the borough right now? Yeah, according to our practices.

SPEAKER_04 21:14

Well, uh, my next one. All right, so um, what's the I'll never forget this moment?

SPEAKER_02 21:22

Oh man. Okay. When in West Wilks, Toby running out to the outfit and doing cartwheels.

SPEAKER_04 21:28

What? Yeah. Do we have any video of this video?

SPEAKER_02 21:31

Yeah, we do have a video. I have a video on my phone. Me too.

SPEAKER_04 21:33

We need to send that. Send that. We'll have to put that in here later when I see Toby doing a cartwheel.

SPEAKER_02 21:36

I will.

SPEAKER_04 21:37

Was it a good cartwheel? How would you rate it one to ten?

SPEAKER_02 21:42

A five.

SPEAKER_04 21:42

It was a little uh knees bend a little bit.

SPEAKER_03 21:45

Yeah, hips got a bit off. I don't know. Mine's not that funny, but it's when we played North Stanley at home and went 14 innings, and I was in the outfield, and I was making plays that I genuinely cannot believe I made, and I made this one play, I'll never forget this movie. I made this one play and my body like twisted. And I got up and she's looking at me and she's like, Man, you never failed to impress me. And I just started laughing because I didn't even know how I caught the ball. Like it was a line drive, and my body like twisted in a weird direction. It's just a moment I'll never forget because that game was so crazy.

SPEAKER_00 22:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 22:16

I love going back and watching that.

SPEAKER_02 22:18

Because it was recorded on what was it? I don't know what it was recorded on. County sports or something.

SPEAKER_04 22:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 22:25

There's video of it.

SPEAKER_04 22:26

That's awesome.

SPEAKER_02 22:27

It makes me so emotional. Me too.

SPEAKER_04 22:29

How much how much came do you love softball?

SPEAKER_02 22:32

A lot. Like, there's so much stuff that I think about on a daily, or like when I'm not doing too great, it's so much stuff that I can like go back to and know, wow, like I wouldn't have this. Like, there's so many relationships I wouldn't have if it wasn't for softball. Just stuff like that. And like softball for me is very fun. I feel like I don't ever have a point where I'm like with Toby that I'm like, God, this isn't fun. Like it's always fun, no matter if you're doing good or bad. It's like this is fun. He's cracking jokes, you're cracking jokes. But even if you're not doing great, it's still that's the best part about the sport is you fail 99% of the time. Yeah. I've I always say, I heard one teammate when I was little, and her mom used to always say it's a game of redemption. Like, if you get up there, you're first about and strike out, well, go redeem yourself. You know, like Major League Baseball players get paid to hit a 300, that's three times out of ten. They're making big bucks. So, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 23:27

That's that's that's awesome. And uh, I mean, same same question for you, you talk off of it, but like the fact that you both are gonna go to the next level, what does that mean? That's gotta be something special. How did how did it come to did it come through the knockouts organization? Did it come through Toby? Like, what what how did you find out about these schools and how did you end up getting your offers?

SPEAKER_03 23:45

Do you want to go first?

SPEAKER_04 23:46

Okay, jinx.

SPEAKER_02 23:48

So I started going to Wingett um when I was about 11. Okay. So it's it's been a while. Like when Coach Stancliffe first got there, she's not there anymore. But I had gone every single year, and I remember my mom telling me my first camp, she was like, I want you to go to the school, like it's beautiful. And I'd never really heard of it. I was little, you know. When you're little, you're like, Oh my goodness, I want to go to UF. I don't want to go that far.

SPEAKER_04 24:13

Why Catawba?

SPEAKER_03 24:14

Um, so I don't know how much of it.

SPEAKER_04 24:16

To reunite with uh what's your your best your bestie?

SPEAKER_03 24:19

I don't know how much into detail I can go into this, but I'm gonna tell you anyways. So like it started with let's see, I started playing Showcase a couple a little bit in eighth grade, and then Toby, let's see, I played with Ricky Martinez my freshman year, and that's when I started like playing.

SPEAKER_04 24:34

Shout out the OG of Knockouts right there. Oh yeah. Yeah, I was shocked I know about knockouts, aren't you?

SPEAKER_03 24:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 24:39

People don't realize this, but my brother graduated at 07, his girlfriend at the time in high school, she was on the knockouts. She was on that state championship team, and she was the catcher. Uh uh shout out Kristen Trocdon. She's probably uh it might not be good, I don't know, but we'll see how that goes.

SPEAKER_03 24:52

Um I started getting that like atmosphere of being in front of college coaches my freshman year, and then I started playing with Toby. And there was a school that had been following me since like my freshman year, and I kind of wanted that to be the place I wanted to go, and that was a little nor line, I'll tell you about where it was. And um Did they ever offer? Yeah, they did.

SPEAKER_04 25:11

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 25:11

But um, like after getting the offer and like just being on campus and like being around the girls and the coaches, I realized like that wasn't what I messed with, and I didn't like it. And I never really would have thought that I was gonna go to Catawba until I like was in that atmosphere. Like I saw Coach.

SPEAKER_04 25:28

It's a nice campus too.

SPEAKER_03 25:29

Yeah, I was on actually on campus today, but I saw Coach Larley. I went to a game, like she's awesome, the girls are amazing, like it really feels like home there. And that's how I knew. And she'd been watching she came to a bunch of my games, followed me, and I just knew like she's one of those people where it's like I want you on my team. It's not one of those people where it's like it's an honor for you to play for me. It's an it's an honor for you to play for on this level. Like, she wanted me on her team and she made that known. And I know some of the girls on the team, which makes me more comfortable. Yeah, she's a she's a great coach. I love, I'm looking, really looking forward to playing.

SPEAKER_04 26:00

I think I met her at that video. I think she was at that tournament I went to.

SPEAKER_03 26:03

Yeah, she was. I think she was on the field when you were actually recording.

SPEAKER_04 26:06

Yeah, I think I talked to her for a few minutes actually, um, because I told them I like so I'm trying to take my middle schoolers to hopefully Katawba for the middle school camp this summer. So I think this is one of the coolest things. Uh and then one of the only colleges in this area that offers a middle school camp where you can play games every day. Yeah. Um, but I'm I don't know if you're gonna get emotional on this next question. Um, but what does Cami mean to you? I mean, you know she's a senior, this is your last year playing with her ever softball.

SPEAKER_03 26:30

I'm actually really upset because when I when I do see her again, we're gonna be playing each other. But she really means a lot to me. Like coming in my freshman year, she like really took me under her wing. We got along very well, and then like we just became like best friends on the field.

SPEAKER_04 26:43

Like you didn't recruit her for basketball?

SPEAKER_03 26:45

No, we tried that this summer, but that didn't work. But we had this thing when we get an out, we like do we'll like look at each other, and if there's one, then we'll like blow a kiss. If there's two, we'll blow another kiss. But we just mesh together and we we make jokes. We don't ever get butthurt about anything, so I'm really gonna miss her.

unknown 26:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 26:59

And my question for you, uh, Miss Senior, um, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2024, and hopefully 2026. Um when you when when you get handed that diploma and it's all over, what emotions do you think you're gonna have and you look back on and what you've created here at Southwest Randolph?

SPEAKER_02 27:19

I get really emotional right now, actually. Like I think about it all the time. I don't I'm gonna cry. I know I'm gonna cry. When Toby takes me off the field, I'm gonna baw my eyes out. I think that I don't know how this year will end. And I'm hoping that we don't end up like we did last year because I won't be able to keep it together, knowing like crap, like this is my last, this is my last inning here. So I'm gonna be very emotional. I'm gonna be really sad.

SPEAKER_04 27:53

And I'm gonna play off of that. I what when that when you get taken taken off that field and you look at Coach Toby in the face, what do you think you're gonna say?

SPEAKER_02 28:03

Thank you. I think that's like one of my big things. Like, he's done so much for me. He's like my family and everything. He's like family to me. Like, he's like another dad. If I had any other problem, I could go to him and he'd answer. I think another big thing that's gonna be hard is looking out, and Nautica knows about this. It there's a group of pawpaws that sit there, and they're not really pawpaws on our team. We all call them pawpaws.

SPEAKER_04 28:32

That's awesome.

SPEAKER_02 28:32

One is Donald Stroder, he will sit there when you're up to bat. You swing it a ball, swing it a strike. Okay, and he'll tell you. And after the game, if you're not hitting it, he's like, hey, swing it a strike, you'll hit the ball. And I love him back there. He'll be like, move. Like if you're moving slow, he'll tell you. And I think like they get there at like 11 o'clock in the morning, put their chairs out, put their chairs out. Like that's where they sit. Everyone knows it, too. Like everybody knows it.

SPEAKER_04 28:57

They go leave their chairs there and then they come back later.

SPEAKER_02 28:59

Yeah, don't sit in their seat. And I think last year, I like had this thing where I like lost my jersey. It was as soon as they got there, they come up to me and was like, that's not your jersey. I was like, I know, I know. They know my number. It's like it's such a family atmosphere. And I think all of Randolph County is such a family. When we were going to the state championship, there was it was posted on are those things called billboards?

SPEAKER_00 29:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 29:24

It was like that we were going, it was it was crazy.

SPEAKER_03 29:26

It was unreal. And our fans like overtook the the who would it play? Maiden? Yes. There was unreal. I couldn't look because I was so nervous, but like whenever they called Southwest and Randolph, like all of our fans stood up and they like it just roared. Like it was insane.

SPEAKER_02 29:42

Oh, it was it was crazy insane. It made me very I'm very emotional. Nautica knows I'm very emotional. And I think that's what I'll miss so much is how much of a family atmosphere and Randolph County is.

SPEAKER_04 29:55

My last question, and before we sign off here, um, I want you to look at Nautica. When it's your last game ever with Nautica Parrish, the one you took under your wing, what is that emotion gonna be like?

SPEAKER_02 30:05

It's gonna be sad. I can't think about it right now. I'm gonna cry. I think about this all the time. I'm like, I'm gonna ball crying. It's gonna be my last game with her. My next time I'll play on a softball field with her, we'll be playing against each other. She'll be trying to get me out, but won't. Yeah. I might have to. I'll get you out.

SPEAKER_04 30:22

Don't hit a third base.

SPEAKER_02 30:23

I know her weaknesses.

SPEAKER_04 30:24

You know her weaknesses, uh-oh.

SPEAKER_02 30:26

Oh no. Oh, she's gonna tell her about hey, yeah. Play up. She soft slips. Oh if another team's listening to this, she doesn't.

SPEAKER_03 30:35

So I hope she doesn't. I actually have new skills. Uh new skills unlocked.

SPEAKER_04 30:39

Yeah, y'all hear that, random and everybody else? Yeah, you heard that. Yeah, random. Play up. She'll shove it down.

SPEAKER_02 30:48

Yeah, it's gonna be sad. Very sad. I'm gonna cry. I'm gonna cry a lot. I'm gonna ball.

SPEAKER_04 30:53

I feel like I need to come to that game. I just need to see. I I want to see the emotions. I gotta film it. I gotta capture it. Senior night. I think I'm gonna have to come to senior night. I think I think I gotta mark it down. I think I'll be at other games, but I think senior night's one I'm gonna have to come to and do a recap of for sports in the borough.

SPEAKER_02 31:06

I know. I told Toby, I was like, we can't, we can't do senior night before the game. Like, I need to be called out after the game because I'm not I'm gonna cry before the game. And he mentioned something at Oak Grove about how like seniors, he could tell we're nervous. It was our first, our first last high school game. And it was my first last game with him besides playing summer ball.

SPEAKER_00 31:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 31:27

And I just had to look away from the group because I was like, my eyes were watering. I was like, this is this is gonna be hard.

SPEAKER_04 31:34

Well, anything you want to thank anybody else before we sign off here? And I want to thank you both for coming here on the Borough Buzz. And we gotta give a shout-out again to the our key sponsor, just keep swinging. They've been with me for two years now, so they are awesome. We're going on two years, and uh, if you need swag, hit them up, they got the best there is, and they got good softball gear out here, too.

SPEAKER_03 31:53

Oh, yeah, they do definitely.

SPEAKER_02 31:55

Curtis is amazing, yeah. He is awesome, he keeps everything very organized. Yeah, he's never been like, well, this year he'll be my coach, but he's never been straight up my coach. Yeah, but he's always been like a coach to me. Sweetest guy ever. Yeah, helps so much.

SPEAKER_04 32:08

Yeah, awesome. Well, thank you both for being on here. You want your parents, anybody guardians want to give a shout-out to before we sign off?

SPEAKER_03 32:15

Yes, my family. Yeah. Yeah. And Toby, of course. Yeah, my family.

SPEAKER_04 32:19

I'm gonna feel like I need to get y'all uh coach Toby's shirts. We gotta come up with a funny slogan we can give him. Like maybe senior night y'all can come up with and we'll get the shirt made.

SPEAKER_03 32:26

We need like a picture of his face. We did get tattoos with his face last year.

SPEAKER_04 32:30

Maybe we can get like him doing that cartwheel freeze frame it and on the cartwheel, and we'll put it on a shirt and give it to him.

SPEAKER_03 32:34

Oh my goodness. He would die.

SPEAKER_04 32:37

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