Importance of P.A.

It's days like these where I really need to remember what I'm all about... what I'm going to school for... and what I've always loved to do. I've been wearing a pedometer for the past week for Fitness Education and realized today that I need to step up my game-- and my steps, even on days as stressful as today and the next few to come. I skipped out on the gym tonight due to an abundance of work, but feel I probably would've been getting about 6 hours of sleep even if I had went and worked out. I'm hoping I don't feel too sluggish tomorrow and that Mr. Slautterback will have some more gymnastics to get me feeling more awake at 8:00 a.m. Tomorrow's a new day, and I almost forgot-- a game day for volleyball! Tomorrow I'll make up for the steps I lost today, for sure!

Games this weekend

This weekend the softball team traveled to Bowie State University near Washington D.C. and Davis & Elkins College in West Virginia. We did well against Bowie State beating them in both games, with several of our younger players having key plays or hits. We also did well against Davis & Elkins-- but only in the first game; the score was ended at 10-1 due to the mercy rule. That right there makes me furious that we ended up laying down and letting them beat us the second game 5-4. We start off well at first, and then I guess we think since we crushed them the first game the second game will be the same, not matter how much effort we do or do not put in. I was excited to hopefully get a win against Edinboro tomorrow (Tuesday) and put that D&E game far behind us, but it got cancelled for some reason and rescheduled for Saturday, April 4th. In a way it was good for us to have an eye opening game like we did against D&E so early in the season... hopefully we all learned something from it, I know I did.. and remember it for future games. Our team looks very strong this year and it'd be a shame if we didn't go far because of instances like that.

Spring break results

The softball team ended spring break with a record of 7-4, which isn't too shabby; but a few of those lost games where we beat ourselves came back to bite us when it came around to getting ranked. Some people may argue with me but I don't think being ranked--at least right now-- is that big of a deal. We have all season to prove what we can do. Plus I think it's better when no one really knows who you are and you blow them out of the water. Team played well as a whole; not one person making endless errors, or one person hitting endless bombs. I'd type more, but I'm leaving soon for games in D.C. and WV this weekend, and still need to eat and pack! If yall aren't busy Tuesday at 2:30 and 4:30 come on over to the softball field (across harmony from the football field) and help support us while we take on Edinboro-- I hear the weather's supposed to be nice!

SRU Softball v. 5th ranked team in the nation, Francis Marion

The game started out pretty smoothly. They would get some baserunners, but not harm was done until about the 3rd inning. We were hitting, when we were swinging. Eventually they managed 4 runs against us and we decided we were going to do something about it in the 6th inning, which was 6 innings too late. I am the leadoff batter, followed by another speedy player on her feet. After this game I realized the "you go, i go" pattern. Talk about a little pressure, right? Come the 6th inning of the Francis Marion game I singled, stole second, and then stole third on a fake bunt. Courtney (the 2nd batter) then on a slap, singled me in to score our first run. I guess that's all the spark we needed. After that the rest of the line-up proceeded to put the sticks to work. We ended up holding FM to 4 runs the whole game, but failed to muster up more than two runs. Losing this game was a pretty big disappoinment, but it was a great thing for our team. We were in shock when Coach told us they were ranked 5th in the nation for D2 schools. If it weren't for beating ourselves that game, we'd have defeated the 5th ranked team in the nation-- that would've been huge! This set the tone for the rest of the games in South Carolina. We played Slippery Rock Softball and showed the last three teams what we were about.