(Story by Marco Stoovelaar; Photo courtesy of UCLA)
 American pitcher Jessica Vogel joins UVV
Nederlands
 VLEUTEN (Neth.) -
American pitcher Jessica Vogel-Hall arrived last week in Vleuten to join her new teammates of UVV.
This year, the 23 year-old lefthander will pitch for the Silver League-team.
...Jessica Vogel-Hall...
(© Photo: Katie Meyers - UCLA Daily Bruin) |
Jessica Hall pitched four seasons for the Bruins, the team of the welknown University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), where she was a dominating pitcher.
In her four seasons at UCLA (2011-2014), she struckout 598 batters in 614 2/3 innings and walked 276, while giving up 522 basehits and 310 runs.
She appeared in 152 games (91 starts) and closed her college-career with a 62-33 record, eleven saves and a 2.80 ERA.
Towards the end of her college-career, she married Darrin Vogel.
In her first year with UCLA, she was 16-9, then 19-14 in her second, followed by an 11-8 record and was 16-2 in her final year.
Besides pitching, Jessica Hall was a utility player, who also handled the bat well.
Her career batting average is .278 (106-for-381) with 21 homeruns and 69 runs batted in.
She scored 62 runs.
In her last year at UCLA, she batted .289 and collected 41 basehits, including eight homeruns, while batting in 31 runs.
Before she played for UCLA, Jessica Hall played four years for the Bulldogs, the team of Ayala High School.
In her last season there (2010), she was 28-3 with 336 strikeouts in 204 2/3 innings and a .340 batting average with five homeruns and 32 RB"s, which earned her three titles of California Player of the Year.
She won several other awards, including being named Sierra League Most Valuable Player three times.
In her first season at UCLA, she was named to the Pac-10 All-Freshman Team.
In 2012, her second season with the Bruins, she appeared in 47 games as a pitcher, which is the third most in one season in school-history.
The record is 50, which was set in 2005 by Anjelica Selden, who went on to pitch several seasons in the Italian Softball League.
After completion of that season, she was named All-Pac-12 Honorable Mention, which she also earned the following season.
Jessica Hall threw two No-Hitters in 2013.
Through the years, UCLA has produced several wellknown softball-players, including Debbie Doom, Andrea Duran, Sue Enquist, Lisa Fernandez, Amanda Freed, Kelly Inouye, Stacey Nuveman, Dot Richardson, Anjelica Selden and Natasha Watley, who all played for the National Team.
Twelve of its players have participated in the Olympic Games.
(March 28)
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