Out of the corner of her eye, Kenzi Maguire spotted Matt Lisle entering the room. So she turned up her volume and repeated what she had just told a reporter.
“Yeah,” she said with a grin, “HE HAS NOT FOLLOWED THROUGH WITH THAT!”
The conversation just outside the South Carolina softball batting cage Tuesday was of pain and ice cream. Maguire is the 11th-ranked Gamecocks’ star shortstop who is second in the SEC in a statistic that helps describe the program’s change under Lisle, the first-year hitting coach.
The 5-foot-5 Maguire is only behind teammate Jana Johns (19) in the number of times she’s been hit by a pitch (14).