Pictured is the 2025 Easley High School softball team.
Jeff Holt | The Easley Progress
EASLEY — Last Thursday night, it almost felt like Friday night football.
Instead, you had a scrimmage softball game — under the bright lights — between rivals Easley and Pickens. The final score didn’t matter. They just wanted to see where they were at as a team before the season starts.
EHS coach Becca Staton got to reflect on her 2025 softball team shortly after their scrimmage.
“We are pretty young, but we have a couple of seniors who will lead the way,” said Staton. “Overall, I’m very pleased with where we are at right now. Our senior pitcher (Jalyn McGee) She is doing what she needs to do and getting the strikeouts. We just a have to get our bats going. No doubt she is going to have a great year. She is a great leader on and off the field. On the mound, she has a presence about her – calm and collective. She just gets the job done and attacks the batter head on, and an overall great person.”
McGee, who returns as the No. 1 pitcher on the team this season, has already signed to continue her pitching career at Piedmont University.
“We’re still early in the process and have a lot of growing to do,” Staton said. “So, no doubt we will make the strides and get to where we need to be when the season starts.”
At press time, the captains were not named yet for the Green Wave.
Staton said the big goal this season is to just play as a team, with “winning region” as their ultimate goal.
EHS grad Emily Morgan is currently playing at the University of South Carolina Beaufort (USCB) and getting some time on the pitching mound.
The EHS softball team moves to Class 5A this season and it will no doubt be tougher.
EHS junior Camora Little, who hit a walk-off homer last season against Pickens, adds some punch to the lineup again this season for Easley.
“She (Little) is going to be one of our power hitters,” Staton said. ”I have her in the four spot right now. She is just a workhorse and trying to get better. If she keeps seeing the ball, she is going to rope it this year and seeing the gaps. Not only home runs, but she’ll get base hits.”
Staying healthy will be another key for Easley with just 12 players listed on the varsity roster. You’ll probably get to see a seventh-grader (Bryleigh Cogdill) take the mound this season, too.
“She (Cogdill) is our future,” Staton said. “So, we’ll try to get her as many strikes on the mound and time.”
2025 EHS Varsity Softball Roster
So. Journey Price OF
So. Emi Nalley OF
8th Ansley Merck OF
7th Bryleigh Cogdill P/UT
Sr. Brooke Wilson Inf.
Sr. Olvia Merck Inf.
Fr. K.B. Marchbanks Inf.
Fr. McKenna Hardy Inf.
Jr. Camora Little Inf./OF
Sr. Jalyn McGee P/UT
So. Payton Todd C/UT
So. Abby Wade P/UT
Reach Jeff Holt at 864-855-0355.