Hello Children. My aplogizes on the delay between my last update and this one. I am dedicating this post to looking at the season so far for us. Consider it a season-in-review.
It has been a very uneven ride so far, and we are definitely looking for a more even look. After all, it is a long season and consitency is what ultimately leads to championships.
We started with an almost too-good-to-be-true start to the season at Northeastern. We dominated those games in every aspect. That was followed by an absolutely embarrassing weekend in Lamar, enough said about that. After Lamar, we went back to Northeastern and combined great baseball with awful baseball. We put together our first venture to Sterling and Lamar together in one day.
Most recently we really turned a page as a team, and played three incredibly consistent games. This is exactly what we are looking for out of the remainder of our season.
We traveled down to Trinidad and swept the Plainsmen. On a side note, the Plainsmen go up towards the top of my least favorite nicknames. I plan on writing a blog about the best of the worst team mascots when we go down to Scottsdale to play the Fighting Artichokes. Yep, that's right, the Fighting Artichokes, instilling fear into the hearts of their opponents before they even take the field! If you have any ideas on mascots that you would like to see on the list, leave a comment!
Back to baseball. We won the first game in Trinidad 3-2 in a gutsy win in which the offense scratched out three runs in the final inning of the game. The game-winning run came from a 75-foot squibbler from pinch-hitter Bryce Enwold.
Regardless of how we got the win, this was the biggest win for the season so far. It showed how mentally tough we are, and really proved that we are never out of a game. The next two games were relatively boring. Bob Moller carried a perfect game into the fifth... What else is new? We won that game easily. In the third game, it seemed like CJ Cannell struck out every batter he faced, except for the three hitters that came to the plate in the fourth inning in which it took Cannell three pitches to retire the side. Thats right, three pitches, three outs.
When you have a three pitch inning, you really wonder who is to blame. Is it the coaches? Is it the players? I blame both in this instance, and it was awesome. I mean, what was going through that third batters mind? He must have just not wanted to be out in the cold. (It was under 25 degrees throughtout the game).
All in all, it was great to dominate a series the way we did. We pitched better than they did, we hit MUCH better than they did, and most importantly we were tougher than they were. We wanted it more. That says a lot about the group of guys on this team, and it makes me very excited to see what we will accomplish!
Lets look to the future! This week we have Otero Junior College on the agenda. We will be going down to Otero for a four-game series beginning Friday. Two games will be played Friday and two on Saturday.
This week's goals are similar to previous weeks.
1. Win the first game.
2. Win the second game.
3. Win the third game (and the series).
4. Sweep the series.
We have been off to a great start with a record of 6-2, and we hope to keep this momentum rolling.
This week's thought: "Do all the good u can, to all the people you can, in all the ways you can, as long as you can." -Rev Run
Thank you for stopping by!
God Bless! Good Luck! FFF!
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