Hello everyone!
So remember how we said we were going to blog a lot more than we are? well we didn't say that it started today...but it does. Starting meow we will be blogging a lot more. Sowwy *puppyeyes*
So it's been an interesting week. We were supposed to go to St Louis this weekend but Coach had a real good feeling that it was going to snow (because the weatherman told her...shhh). Some other teams went anyways and all the games got cancelled and they payed a lot of money to sit in a hotel all weekend long. Props Coach...props.
Instead of sitting in a hotel we got Friday off, had practice on Sat. along with a 2 hour team meeting...yawn (jk is was very helpful and gave us a better insight into our team dynamic). On Sunday we had some last min. games against Northland and then a double header against St. Scholastica. We were hoping that we would be able to play on our home field at Gelein but we ended up playing on the football turf because it was still sort of mushy. Playing on turf was weeeeird, but it was kind of like playing in the dome which most of us have done.
We learned the hard way that bases slide around on the turf, as one of our teammates tried to steal and slid right past the base (she would've been safe had she held on). We ended up beating Northland 9-1. We had 13 hits and it was a great team effort! From there we ended up beating St. Scholastica twice. It was awesome that these two teams could take the time and come down to play us! We heard that St. Scholastica was supposed to have the weekend off, but they managed to round up a team and come down and play some ball. It was wonderful that we ended up getting some games in!
We had the day off Monday, and Tuesday we were back at it.
Tuesday was interesting. We didn't have any of our hitting things because they were at carson park where we play our games so we couldn't hit real balls. Instead we hit marshmallows. We did front toss with marshmallows....seriously. Kidnie personally wanted to eat the marshmallows but it was pretty gross once they hit the bat. We also conditioned because we had a LOT of errors on Sunday. I wish that we didn't have to do that..but until we can have errorless games it is inevitable!! rawr
Today we had our games against St. Norbert canceled due to weather again (weird..thanks Wisconsin). We rescheduled it to April 15 (we think). It was snowing pretty hard this morning but ended up clearing around 2ish. We had a productive team practice with hitting and run down situations.
We also had Matt Queen come in and interview us about our blogging as well :) So Kidnie and I got to talk about the joys and fun we have blogging. We also let the world know that our blog is way cooler/funnier than Coach's. Just kidding Coach...:) The story will be on WEAU on the Sunday night show for all of you who want to see the minds behind the magic of our blogs :)
Here is our trivia question: What year did our current Coach win a National title with another team and at what field?? :)
Until next time (hopefully very soon) here's looking at you kid...nie :)
So remember how we said we were going to blog a lot more than we are? well we didn't say that it started today...but it does. Starting meow we will be blogging a lot more. Sowwy *puppyeyes*
So it's been an interesting week. We were supposed to go to St Louis this weekend but Coach had a real good feeling that it was going to snow (because the weatherman told her...shhh). Some other teams went anyways and all the games got cancelled and they payed a lot of money to sit in a hotel all weekend long. Props Coach...props.
Instead of sitting in a hotel we got Friday off, had practice on Sat. along with a 2 hour team meeting...yawn (jk is was very helpful and gave us a better insight into our team dynamic). On Sunday we had some last min. games against Northland and then a double header against St. Scholastica. We were hoping that we would be able to play on our home field at Gelein but we ended up playing on the football turf because it was still sort of mushy. Playing on turf was weeeeird, but it was kind of like playing in the dome which most of us have done.
We learned the hard way that bases slide around on the turf, as one of our teammates tried to steal and slid right past the base (she would've been safe had she held on). We ended up beating Northland 9-1. We had 13 hits and it was a great team effort! From there we ended up beating St. Scholastica twice. It was awesome that these two teams could take the time and come down to play us! We heard that St. Scholastica was supposed to have the weekend off, but they managed to round up a team and come down and play some ball. It was wonderful that we ended up getting some games in!
We had the day off Monday, and Tuesday we were back at it.
Tuesday was interesting. We didn't have any of our hitting things because they were at carson park where we play our games so we couldn't hit real balls. Instead we hit marshmallows. We did front toss with marshmallows....seriously. Kidnie personally wanted to eat the marshmallows but it was pretty gross once they hit the bat. We also conditioned because we had a LOT of errors on Sunday. I wish that we didn't have to do that..but until we can have errorless games it is inevitable!! rawr
Today we had our games against St. Norbert canceled due to weather again (weird..thanks Wisconsin). We rescheduled it to April 15 (we think). It was snowing pretty hard this morning but ended up clearing around 2ish. We had a productive team practice with hitting and run down situations.
We also had Matt Queen come in and interview us about our blogging as well :) So Kidnie and I got to talk about the joys and fun we have blogging. We also let the world know that our blog is way cooler/funnier than Coach's. Just kidding Coach...:) The story will be on WEAU on the Sunday night show for all of you who want to see the minds behind the magic of our blogs :)
Here is our trivia question: What year did our current Coach win a National title with another team and at what field?? :)
Until next time (hopefully very soon) here's looking at you kid...nie :)
She was an assistant at Simpson College for 1997 and 1999 titles that were played at Gelein field. The '98 champ was UWSP which was the time a WIAC team won the title before last year.
Side not she played first sack on Buena Vista University's runner-up squad in '92.