Their season has been over for more than a week now, but we continue to roll along with season recapping coverage of the ADM softball team.

Today, head coach Rick Dillinger talks about his ace pitcher Molly Jacobsen, who had nothing short of a brilliant sophomore season.  Even with her gaudy statistics though, Coach Dillinger says he still sees a lot of room for improvement in the young lefty.

“I think Molly made great improvement during the season and my hats off to her for doing all the work to improve, but I think she can get more movement, she’ll get stronger which means she’ll throw the ball harder, and then locating a ball in crucial times will come from experience… She has another step or two to take and the exciting this is I know she’ll do the work to try to get there.”

In his hall of fame coaching career, Coach Dillinger has had his fair share of dominant ace pitchers, and he says Jacobsen has the chance to rank as one of his all-time bests when her career is all said and done… she just has to keep on working.

“I’ve actually got a former pitcher going into the Iowa Softball Hall of Fame this state tournament, and (Molly) will rank very highly (along those lines) when she’s finished.  It all depends upon how hard she works but I’m totally convinced she will work hard so I’m expecting great things.”

In 2014, Jacobsen went 25-11 with a 1.91 earned run average. Her 330 strikeouts still led all classes of high school softball this season entering this week’s state tournament.