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Karla Pittman joins an esteemed list of players from the tradition-rich softball program to grace the Hall of Fame. The 2009 Ohio Valley Conference Pitcher of the Year and a First Team NFCA All-Region honoree guided Jax State to its most decorated season in history. Her Gamecocks earned the OVC's and JSU's first-ever at-large bid into the NCAA Tournament, where they knocked off Nebraska, James Madison and host Tennessee to win the NCAA Knoxville Regional to advance to the Tuscaloosa Super Regional, which remains the only Super Regional for an OVC team in its softball history. Pittman led Jax State to its first Top 25 finish at the end of the season, when the Gamecocks were 21st in the ESPN.com and 24th in the NFCA Poll. Her career featured First-Team All-OVC performer in 2007 and 2009, after missing 2008 due to injury. She finished in the Top 50 in ERA in both her junior and senior seasons, threw 25 complete games in 31 starts in 2007, which still ranks as fourth-most complete games in a season in school history. She also still owns the 10th most career wins in the circle for JSU with 38, including a 17-4 mark in 2007. During the 2009 Knoxville Regional, she held Tennessee to one run in the Championship Game to force the if-necessary game after also throwing a three-hit shutout of James Madison in an elimination game earlier in the regional.
