Sophomore pitcher Libby Levendoski and head coach Brittany Beall are finalists for Florida Dairy Farmers statewide softball honors after leading Eustis to its first state championship last month.
Levendoski was named Class 4A player of the year and Beall was named 4A coach of the year this week based on voting by coaches and media representatives.
The overall Dairy Farmers Miss Softball and coach-of-the-year winners are scheduled to be announced Tuesday.
Levendoski finished the season with a 23-1 record, 0.46 earned run average and 286 strikeouts in 152 innings. She claimed the 4A award in a landslide over Riverview’s Brittany Michael.
Orange City University’s Aminah Vega finished second in 7A voting to Cassidy McLellan of Lakewood Ranch by a 124 to 104 voting tally. Taylor Krapf of Winter Springs came in second in 6A to Doral Academy’s Alyssa Zabala by a 136 to 91 vote.
Windermere Prep junior pitcher Gracie Wallace finished third in Class 3A voting.
Other finalists for the Miss Softball award include Fort Myers’ Julia Knowler (5A), Rachael Tetrarca (3A) of Tampa Academy of the Holy Names, Morgan Talley of Fort Myers Canterbury (2A) and Trenton’s Darian Ingram (1A).
NCAA softball
Former Orlando area high school softball standouts are competing this week in the eight-team NCAA Women’s College World Series in Oklahoma City.
Lauren Mathis, a 2016 Sentinel softball player of the year and 2017 West Orange graduate, is a senior relief pitcher for Georgia, which plays Oklahoma State at 2:30 p.m. on Thursday. Georgia freshman Payden Bordeau, who had her senior high school season at Lake Brantley cut short due to the COVID-19 pandemic, has started 41 games this spring at catcher.
Kaley Mudge, the Sentinel Girls overall Athlete of the Year as a Winter Springs senior in 2019, has made 14 starts and played in 49 games as a redshirt freshman for FSU, which faces UCLA at 9:30 p.m.
NCAA Women’s College World Series games are scheduled to be televised live on ESPN networks through the end of the week. The best-of-three national championship series begins Monday.
This article originally appeared on OrlandoSentinel.com. Email J.C. Carnahan at jcarnahan@orlandosentinel.com.
