It's 6:45 on Saturday night. We're traveling home from a very successful 3 game weekend against Bates. Our mid-week game with western connecticut was postponed but we used that time to gear up for a weekend that could potentially clinch first place in our NESCAC division. So Friday rolled around, and before the sun rose above the horizon we packed up the bus and headed to Bates to try and keep a zero in the conference loss column.

The swings were smooth and powerful, the defense was consistent, and the pitching was dominant. At the end of the weekend we had scored a total of 49 runs, helped out by 12 homeruns, and held their offense to only 7 runs over three games, not to mention we swept the weekend series. Every game we played with a sense of energy and urgency because we knew that these three games were important for us to take some pressure off us during the home stretch. Next weekend is Colby and if we can remain consistent in our performance we will be in a very advantageous spot when the NESCAC playoffs start.

We look towards the next 14 days where we will be playing a game against Coast Guard on Monday, 3 games against Colby, a game against Western Conn, and a game against Eastern Conn. Every single one of these games are important, and if we play our game and stay in our comfort zone we will be peaking just at the right time.

Because these seasons are so short, every game is incredibly important. But no matter how hard one game was, or how easy another game was our team always looks forward to the next inning, or the next chance. We played great baseball this weekend, but it's the next game we our focused on, and that takes a lot of discipline. The difference between the good team and great team is not only timely hitting or good pitching, but it's the intangibles that bind a team together, that allow them to beat bad, good, and great teams.

Anyways, Monday is our next opponent, and our next obstacle. We move closer everyday back to a potential trip to Appleton. It's a long road, we realized that last year, but today I think we all saw how dominant we can be when we are firing on all cylinders.

Hope everyone has a good easter weekend, and hopefully be back later with some more good news.

It's Monday April 6th, the day after a pressure packed weekend that ended with that nice symmetrical Zero remaining in our conference loss column. Friday turned out to be a wash due to the beautiful New England weather that's been plaguing this season ever since we got back from Florida. So on Saturday, Jeremiah Bayer stepped to the mound and dominated our conference rivals, Tufts, to set the tone AGAIN for the coming double header on Sunday. Our defense was stellar, once again, but our pitching was what really separated ourselves when it mattered. Saturday was cold and dreary but Sunday turned out to be a pretty great day of baseball. The campus looked great, and the smell of spring was slowly creeping out from beneath the clouds of a long New England Winter.

All three of our pitchers threw complete games. And the last game to complete the series ended in dramatic fashion. Last year at Tufts our undefeated season was threatened by a Jumbos team that hopped out to an 8 to 1 lead, but through bulldog-esque determination we fought back and ended up winning in extra innings. But to tie the game, in the twilight of the day, Sean Killeen hit grand slam to tie it up. It was absolutely electric and the buzz amongst the team as Killeen stomped on home plate could never be matched. But then again yesterday, when it was the bottom of the ninth with the score tied one to one, Killeen stepped to the plate again. On the first pitch of the at-bat Killeen's short compact and effortless swing launched the ball deep over the right center field fence. And the rest, I guess you could say, is history.

So we're 6 and 0 in the conference with bates on Friday. But this weekend it was our desire to play every inning and every out flawlessly that lead to wins. Whether it was the dominant performances of our pitchers or the timely hitting of our batters we expected perfection, and we maintained it at the culmination of the weekend.

Hope the weather clears up, baseball is a spring sport not a winter sport. Talk to you guys after the weekend is over, let's keep that zero.