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THREE RIVERS EDITION/RIVER VALLEY & OZARK EDITION OF THE ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE DIAMOND ROUNDUP
SUNDAY, MARCH 22, 2020
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for Conway High School, which has never won a softball state championship.
“We’ve got a big class with nine seniors,” she said. “Last year, we had four seniors; the year before we had two, so we definitely have a chance this year.”
Hickey said Jordan’s strengths are her game knowledge and game management.
But paradoxically, those are her weak- nesses, too.
“Sometimes she tries to control more as- pects of the game than she can,” Hickey said, “but she is a great ball player, very precise. She has high expectations of herself, as she does of her teammates. If somebody’s slacking, she’ll let them know.
“She is a vocal leader and real good about leading by example.”
Jordan agreed with the list of weaknesses and added another one: “I’m not very fast.”
“But I have a really good [right] arm,” she said. “Only a few people stole on me last year.” Jordan said that when behind the plate, she
loved having eight teammates looking to her. “You have to control the field and the pace of
the game,” she said. “I like being in that leadership position.”
Her goals for her senior season include hit- ting a home run at least every two games and increasing her RBI numbers.
“It does help having some of the fastest people in the state on my team,” Jordan said.
Away from the field, she sports a 4.01 grade- point average. She plans to study nursing at Henderson.
She chose the Reddies over offers from Arkansas Tech and Central Baptist College.
“I’m a home person, and it felt like home,” she said of HSU. “I love having [Ouachita Baptist University] across the street, so there are all kinds of people around.”
Her hobbies include hunting and fishing with her dad and sister.
Hickey called her “the rule sticker-to-er.”
“If she has an issue, she’ll follow procedures, address it and stand up for others,” the coach said. “She’s not going to let something happen. She stands up for basic right and wrong. She’s the first to speak up and say, ‘Hey, that’s not right.’
“She’s the one you want to have, who’s going to get the work done, lead by example and do what needs to be done.”
STACI VANDAGRIFF/RIVER VALLEY & OZARK EDITION
Conway catcher Addie Jordan’s career stats heading into her senior season include a .356 batting average, 36 runs scored, 92 RBIs (including a team-high 55 in 2019), 31 doubles (including the Lady Cats’ best 16 last season), 1 triple and 10 home runs, including 6 last year. Jordan has stolen 7 bases, has an on-base percentage of .501 and has struck out only 10 times in three years.