2024 Softball Roster
Roster
Sage Hoover
- Height:
- 5-7
- Class:
- Junior
- Position:
- RHP
- B/T:
- R/R
- Hometown:
- Edgewood, Texas
- Prev School:
- Northwestern State
2022 Southland Conference Commissioner’s Spring Honor Roll
2022 Easton/NFCA All-American Scholar-Athlete
2022 Louisiana Sports Writers Association All-Louisiana Collegiate Softball Honorable Mention
2022 Southland Conference Freshman of the Year
2022 All-Southland Conference Softball First Team
April 11, 2022 Southland Conference Pitcher of the Week
JUNIOR SEASON (2024)
Did not play… redshirt season.
SOPHOMORE SEASON (2023)
Appeared in 31 games, making 14 starts… led the team with a 2.45 ERA and a 14-3 record… tallied a team-leading three shutouts and 101 strikeouts over 100.0 innings of work… pinned opponents to a .218 batting average… had five or more strikeouts in nine contests... tallied a season-high 10 strikeouts and surrendered just one hit in Tech’s win over Buffalo… hurled her first no-hitter in the Scarlet and Black against UT Arlington
AT NORTHWESTERN STATE-
FRESHMAN SEASON (2022)
Started 21 games in the circle making 27 total appearances, the most by a pitcher on the year...finished with an 11-7 record with and a 2.56 ERA...named Southland Conference Freshman of the Year, the third NSU player to win the award and first since 2002...led the conference in strikeouts with 175 and finished the season with a 9.3 K/7 rate...had the most strikeouts by an NSU pitcher since 2007 and the most in 14 season under head coach Donald Pickett...threw a 2-hit shutout with 10 strikeouts in the first game of the season which was her first collegiate start...had 12 appearances with seven or more strikeouts and six time reached double figures including three straight and in four out of five starts, three of them coming against conference opponents...set the school record with 18 strikeouts as part of her 12-inning complete game performance where she had a no-hitter through the first 6.2 innings of the game...tossed the 15th no-hitter in NSU history on April 22 against UIW...threw 11 total complete games with the Lady Demons winning nine of those outing...held opponents to a .200 batting average for the season, the lowest overall mark in the conference.
HIGH SCHOOL
Played the final two seasons of her prep career at Rains after transferring from Edgewood ... had a dominate senior year in the circle with a perfect 24-0 record and miniscule 0.32 ERA on the way to a Texas 3A State Championship...she allowed just seven runs in over 130 innings of work and struck out 287 ... she was named the TSWA 3A and East Texas Player of the Year after her senior season ... amassed an impressive 47-2 record with more than 500 strikeouts in three high school seasons ... her Rains team was ranked No. 1 in the state with an 26-1 record during her junior season when COVID-19 ended competition ... played her freshman season at Edgewood before transferring to Rains due to mom taking a job in Rains ISD ... she was forced to sit out her sophomore season due to transfer rules but was an important member of the 2019 Rains State Championship Team ... member of the National Honor Society and graduated with honors in Spanish ... her travel teams placed first in the 16u University of Texas Team Camp Championship and USSAA Top Gun Invitational in 2019 and had top three finishes in the 16u Top Club Nationals and TFL Championship ... finished the 2020 18u Inaugural Alliance Cup with a 5-0-1 record in 2020 and were the co-champions of the USSAA American Freedome Invitational.
PERSONAL
Daughter of Valerie and Terry Hoover ... has one older sister who attends Tarleton State ... majoring in psychology and plans to become a psychiatrist ... life’s ambition is to be a benEfit to the world in any way she can saying, “What is the point of being here if you don’t help others and the world around you.”
