RIPON — Ripon hasn’t been to the Sac-Joaquin Section softtball playoffs since 1996.But the times have changed.Morgan Ormonde, who signed her National Letter of Intent to play softball at Presentation College – a NAIA and Catholic private school in South Dakota – was a key part of that change. Ormonde helped lift her ball club to a second-place finish in the Trans Valley League at 9-3 (19-7 overall) and end the school’s 16-year playoff drought.“The feeling of making it to the playoffs, I can’t explain,” said Ormonde, one of two Ripon seniors on this year’s team bound for the Sac-Joaquin Section Division V postseason. Nicole (Kaiser) and I have both really been wanting this.”Ormonde, who has started at left field this season for the Indians, is already listed on the 2013 Presentation roster as a 5-foot, 2-inch infielder.
Ripons Ormonde headed to Presentation