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It must be nice to be starting your junior season in high school and have it figured out as to where you will attend college to continue your academic and athletic careers.  That’s the situation Torrington’s Sydney Matzko finds herself in after verbally committing to attend the University of North Carolina on a full scholarship in the fall of 2014. Read More

Fico became one of the greatest softball pitchers in state history during a record-setting four-year career at Masuk High. Fico is now a freshman pitcher at Louisiana State. She led Masuk to Class LL championships in 2007 and 2008 and posted a career record of 105-3 with an ERA of 0.07. Read More

BATON ROUGE – LSUsports.net will get to know the seven newcomers on the Tiger softball team leading into the 2010 season. Today’s edition features Rachele Fico. Fico compiled an impressive 105-3 record with a stifling 0.07 ERA at Masuk High School in Connecticut. She racked up 1,884 strikeouts over 775 innings and fired 26 perfect games, a national high school record. Fico’s list of accolades includes 2008 and 2009 Connecticut Gatorade Player of the Year along

Her team trailing 5-2 with two outs in the bottom of the seventh inning, the Florida senior lofted a deep drive down the left-field line. Hitless in nine at-bats in this year’s World Series at the time, and owning just three hits in her past 34 at-bats overall, there was every reason to think Gardiner’s ball would settle into a glove for the final out, sending the teams on to a winner-take-all second game later

MILFORD — There came a point, a couple of years ago, when some of Rachele Fico’s unique brand of heat was starting to make her dad a touch uneasy. Far be it from Ralph Fico to let on, though. He refused to wear catcher’s equipment, even though Rachele’s rise ball started to pop at 68 mph and his eyesight may not have been what it once was. Read More