Codi Reed isn’t sure how many softball games she plays in a typical year.

Such calculations are best left for high speed computers and students at MIT.

“I couldn’t even begin to add them all up,” Reed said. “There really isn’t an offseason. When I’m not playing high school ball, I’m playing travel ball. When I’m not playing travel ball, I’m playing fall ball.”

About the only thing that can stop Reed on the softball field is winter.

Opponents of the Knoch junior pitcher/third baseman certainly can’t.

During a four-game trip to Kentucky to start the season, Reed cut a swath of destruction with her bat with four doubles, a triple, a home run, 17 RBI and eight runs scored.

She remained hot when the Knights came north, hitting a grand slam and driving in seven against Indiana. In 11 games, she has 31 RBI and is hitting better than .400.

“I don’t know of anyone who has had that many RBI in my five years here,” said Knoch coach Tim Knappenberger. “She’s a strong girl. She comes to play. She digs her feet in and says, ‘Come on. Bring it to me. I’m going to go at you.’ No nonsense. Let’s go.”

Reed began playing softball at the age of 10. She was awful.

“I wasn’t too great,” Reed said. “It took a lot of practice to get from where I was to where I am now.”

Three years after her auspicious start, Reed was tearing the cover off the ball regularly and was selected to play for the Lady Pirates 14-year-old travel team at the age of 13.

“That’s when I knew I could play,” Reed said. “That gave me my start.”

Reed has been a prodigious slugger for Knoch since.

“Codi has hit since the ninth grade,” Knappenberger said. “She’s a power hitter. She hit home runs in the ninth grade. She hit home runs last year. She’s matured. She’s smarter. She’s come through when there are girls on base.”

Reed takes an interesting approach at the plate.

She ignores the situation. Whether there is no one on, or the bases are loaded, Reed blocks it out.

Fans? She doesn’t hear them.

“People have to tell me how many hits I had and how many runs I drove in after the game,” Reed said. “I don’t know. I don’t know if there is anyone on base or not. All I focus on is what the coach is telling me to do and the ball.”

It wasn’t always that way for Reed, who once heard every chant and every bellow from the bleachers.

“It’s something I really had to learn,” Reed said. “I’ve learned how to block all that stuff out.”

It’s a valuable skill for Reed, who has designs on playing in college and coaching the sport one day.

Reed is very much a perfectionist. Any out she makes is too many in her mind.

“You want to set a good example,” Reed said. “I really want to become a coach. I do help any young player who is willing to learn. To do that, though, I feel like I should be producing to make what I say worth something.”

Reed also has other motivations for continuing her hot start this spring, namely to get the Knights to the WPIAL playoffs and to get her name out there to college coaches.

Reed feels the pressure of that weighing on her. But pressure is something she says she has never been afraid to confront.

“I do feel the pressure because you never know who is watching you,” Reed said. “If you are good enough, they’ll come find you.”

Reed projects as a third baseman at the next level, even though she is also a solid pitcher in the circle.

“I’d rather play third,” Reed said. “Sometimes pitchers don’t get to hit. I want to hit.”