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.