We conclude our look at the top 100 players in the 2018 class after spotlighting 10 each day on our countdown from 100 to No. 1.  These current freshmen were chosen based on input and feedback from college and club coaches who’ve seen them play all across the nation.

Criteria for choosing and ranking the players including performances at the club and high school levels and projecting how they will play at the collegiate level.

Today we feature players No. 10 to No. 1 with standout players from Arizona, California (4), Georgia (2), Tennessee, Texas and West Virginia.

Check out more of 2018's HOT 100: 100-91, 90-81, 80-71, 70-61, 60-51, 50-41, 40-31, 30-21, 20-11

No.	Player	Position	Club	College
10	Anna Vines	IF/OF	Corona Angels	UCLA
		Anna is the younger sister of senior outfielder Brooke Vines, who plays for the So Cal A's - Richardson team and has signed with Tennessee. Brooke was also a top 10 Hot 100 player in her class and Anna has similarly great talent. The younger sister is versatile in that she can play most infield and outfield positions and is unbelievably fast. In 2014 she started at short for the 14U Angels team that won PGF Nationals and Anna was one of the stars, hitting .414, tying for the team lead with 12 hits and leading with four steals. A great competitor, she also won a 10U ASA National Championship and had Tennessee and Oregon after her but liked being able to stay close to home at UCLA.
9	Grace Green	3B/P	Sorcerer - Williams	Oklahoma
		Grace has been on the national radar since she starred at the 2013 OnDeck West Coast Elite Camp. She's a power-hitting third baseman who hits for average and drives in runs. Last summer she batted .444 and led the Sorcerer 14U team--which finished 5th at PGF Nationals--in home runs (7) and RBI (39). At Nationals she hit .412 with an on-base percentage of .545 in part because of five walks as opposing pitchers know how dangerous she can be and tend to pitcher around her. Her father, Daniel, was the 2013 Rodeo World Timed Champion in Guthrie, Okla. and the family has ties to the Sooner program in part because of that background.
8	Montana Fouts	P	Beverly Bandits	Alabama
		Montana is a 6-foot-1 flamethrower who has hit 68 mph on the gun and also throws a drop, curve and change. She blew up at a January 2014 OnDeck camp where she was clocked at 66 mph and ended up committing to Alabama on Halloween of last year. She's a natural thrower as the ball comes out of her hand easily and smoothly in the upper 60's. Montana can spot her fastball wherever she wants. She has been a varsity starter for two years prior to this season and had a 30-5 record with a 0.42 ERA. The freshman is also a great hitter, compiling a .414 varsity average up prior to 2015 and she has started off this season with a bang too, hitting .444 with 11 RBI in the first six games while pitching three complete game shutout wins and not allowing a run.
7	Skylar Wallace	SS	Georgia Impact - Lewis	Alabama
		Skylar was perhaps the most highly recruited players in the Southeast before committing in February to the Tide over major programs from all over the nation. She has the rare combination of speed and power that coaches covet. The lefty batter was a 2nd Team All-State honoree last fall after hitting .592 with eight doubles, four triples, 25 walks and 18 steals. At the club level, Skylar hit .443 with an on-base percentage of .522 and had 65 steals over the summer. She runs track for her high school and is so talented as an athlete and competitor that she fractured her right hand two weeks before PGF Nationals and switched to the right side, where she hadn't hit from in three years, and still led the Impact team with a .545 average in the tournament.
6	Savana Sikes	IF	Atlanta Vipers - Vallery	Auburn
		Savana is following in the footsteps of two older sisters that played softball (Georgia and Kennesaw State) and is headed to Auburn which is only about an hour and a half from her home in Douglasville, Ga. She showed how advanced and talented she is by going 3-for-4 with two home runs last fall against the No. 1 rated pitcher in the senior class, Kelly Barnhill who signed with Florida and was invited to play on the Jr. National Team. What makes Savana so elite is her focus and attention to detail. She reads the ball well and has great hands and eye coordination. She's a line-drive hitter who bats in the 3 hole and picks the ball up well out of the hip and then drives through it. Defensively she is a middle infielder/outfielder who has a strong arm and loves to compete.
5	Cheyenne Lindsey	IF/OF	Frost Falcons 00	Florida
		Cheyenne may be the sleeper of this year's Hot 100 in that she doesn't have the national name recognition like many others do, but that will change as she competes more in high-visibility tournaments. SEC schools certainly know about her as she has offers from Tennessee and Kentucky before she picked the Gators. Cheyenne is a lefty lead-off slapper with great sped along with the strength to slap with power and hit home runs. In late March she won a game for her Tennessee high school with a two-run triple, illustrating her gap power and ability to fly around the bases. Cheyenne is tremendous on defense, playing third base primarily but is also a great outfielder. Some scouts say she is one of the strongest third basemen in the country.
4	Ally Shipman	C	So Cal Choppers - Fausett	Tennessee
		Here's a bold (or maybe not so bold) prediction: barring injury, Ally will be a college All-American before she is done with her career at the Univ. of Tennessee. She is the younger sister of former Tennessee All-American and current NPF star Madison Shipman and her club coach, Dean Fausett, says Ally is better than Madison was at this age. Their father, Bill, is also a top club coach so Ally has had the best training and mentoring possible, but it wouldn't mean anything if she didn't have the off-the-charts physical and mental tools she possesses. Ally committed to Tennessee in the eighth grade after being pursued by every major college in the country. Her tools are obvious: she has a very strong arm and maturity behind the plate and she does everything exceeding well: calling pitches, blocking, framing plus she lives, eats and breathes softball. The freshman understands how to face and handle great pitching and she's clear-minded at the plate and very rarely doesn't have a quality at-bat.
3	Grace Lyons	MIF	Firecrackers AZ - Hinkle	Oklahoma
		College coaches privately whisper that Grace is a defensive superstar who could play college softball right now. She comes from a baseball background and started playing tee-ball when she was four. Her father is in the military, flying F-16 jets for the Air Force for over two decades, so Grace has moved around a lot and played baseball all over the country with coaches who instilled great fundamentals and techniques. One of those was former MLB All-Star shortstop Damion Easley. Watch Grace handle a grounder and make a throw and you would swear you are watching a college-level baseball player. Her release is super quick and she's smooth and fluid in her movements, laterally and forwards and backwards. Instinctive, she knows where to position herself and anticipate a play. Offensively, she hits for average and through her first 21 games this season has batted .468 with an on-base percentage of .500 in 62 plate appearances.
2	Megan Faraimo	P/1B	Corona Angels	UCLA
		Barring any surprises this summer, the most coveted player in the country--arguably in any age class--will be Megan who won't commit until the fall after freshman grades come out. The SoCal pitcher practically carried the Angels 14U team on her back during PGF Nationals enroute to the championship. She was so dominant that Head Coach Marty Tyson gave her the title trophy. Megan's line was awesome against the top teams in her age group: an 8-1 record, 1.08 ERA, 79 strikeouts in 51 2/3rd innings and four complete games. What makes her elite is she has good velocity but amazing movement on all her pitches. Even if you know what's coming it is still hard to hit it and, as several coaches said, you rarely see the combination of speed and movement she possesses. Add to that her fierce competitiveness in the circle and you have a shut-down pitcher. Megan has also shined at the 18U level; she helped the Angels Gold team win the Boulder Independence Day Tournament last July.
1	Brooke Vestal	P	Texas Bombers Gold	Oklahoma
		"Serendipity." It means a "fortunate happenstance" or "pleasant surprise" and that's how I first stumbled upon Brooke Vestal. It was the summer of 2013 at PGF Nationals and I went to the Fountain Valley, Calif. fields knowing I should check out that site for some of the younger teams. I walked up to a field not knowing who was playing but immediately saw a dozen college coaches from Big Ten, Pac-12 and SEC schools and wondered who they were looking at. It didn't take long to find out it was a tall blonde pitcher who was dominating that game for the Austin Stars: Brooke Vestal. Afterwards I interviewed Brooke who was 13 at the time and could tell she was nervous to do the interview, which she admitted was her first one ever. Flash forward a year to last year's Nationals: when I met up with her again in person, the change was startling. Brooke had blossomed into a more mature and confident person quick with a smile and bursting with personality. And, oh yea, she had turned into one heck of a pitcher in that year too. A standout volleyball player who could probably play that sport in college, Brooke is a 6-foot-1 pitcher with electric "stuff" and is a true "swing and miss" pitcher. Coaches say she's the perfect build of a pitcher if you started from scratch: tall with long levers, strong, ultra-competitive and smart with a desire to improve and be coachable. As an 8th grader in the Bombers program she has played and excelled already against some top 18U teams and last year she carried the Bombers - HTX team to a 5th place finish at PGF 14U Nationals. She lost 2-1 to the eventual champion Angels and then, tired after multiple games at the end, lost to them again 6-0, but still had a 1.77 ERA for the week with a PGF-leading 70 strikeouts in 43.1 innings of work. In Texas high school ball so far this spring, opponents are only batting .054 against her and she has 186 K's in 88 innings. But the best part about Brooke may be her demeanor off the field. Greatly impacted by the Bombers' "Killed in Action" program where she is wearing on her jersey the name of a soldier, Sgt. Tom Switzer, killed in battle last summer, Brooke started on her own a program to raise money for families of lost heroes where she is taking donations for every strikeout she gets. Why? Simply because she wants to give back. And that's what makes Brooke the No. 1 player in her class: dominating talent, a fierce competitiveness to excel and a moral character that provides great humanity off the field. In short, she's everything that is right about softball! So congratulations to Brooke and the rest of the 2018 Hot 100 standouts -- KEEP WORKING HARD!