Unfortunately, privacy rules prevent the school from making any statement regarding her situation. Unless you can find inside information or the athlete provides the information, we may never know her reasons for leaving the program.
I have no idea why she left the team. Regarding her sitting on the bench, in the Gophers first 12 games, she started in 6 of them and was not lifted in any of them.
One of three finalists:
https://view.ecommunications2.umn.edu/?qs=01970dee9583f577047d6aa312de26b5485898f7757e74feb44faa228636647ce46afd353b3123b6ea607075c047eb72effe466fbfd0558b63e26a08899d5cb4e8afdb3c06099653d806ecc93f5cdd0f
One of three finalists:
https://view.ecommunications2.umn.edu/?qs=01970dee9583f577047d6aa312de26b5485898f7757e74feb44faa228636647ce46afd353b3123b6ea607075c047eb72effe466fbfd0558b63e26a08899d5cb4e8afdb3c06099653d806ecc93f5cdd0f
She was one of three remaining candidates:
https://view.ecommunications2.umn.edu/?qs=01970dee9583f577047d6aa312de26b5485898f7757e74feb44faa228636647ce46afd353b3123b6ea607075c047eb72effe466fbfd0558b63e26a08899d5cb4e8afdb3c06099653d806ecc93f5cdd0f
Leading 6-0 going to the bottom of 6 only to lose 7-6. Texas Tech got 6 runs in the bottom of the 6th. From my unprofessional assessment, Piper should not let any pitcher stay in the game for more than 5 innings.
All Florida games are cancelled again today. There was an inordinate amount of runs scored during this event. Posts on another board, indicate that a harder (juiced) ball was used in an attempt to produce more offense. It seemed to work better than expected.