Softball Blog #2

Tuesday, March 2nd

Hello again friends and family!

We hope that everyone is staying warm up north. Yesterday and today have been some of the nicest days that we have seen in about five months. The rest of the week’s weather forecast looks promising and we are going to soak up every ray of sun that we possibly can before we head back into the snow globe of western Pennsylvania.

Since the last posting, we have played four games. Unfortunately, we have not come up victorious yet, but we are also getting great experience playing with the kind of competition that will only make us better. Sunday we played a Division II team (Lake Superior State) and a NAIA school (University of Michigan -Dearborn). Monday we faced the defending Division III national champions (Messiah College) and another NAIA school (Cedarville University). Against Messiah, we played a very aggressive and intense game even though we came up short. I have been very proud of how our team has been playing, we have seen many good things and we are only looking to improve.

Despite the losses, we are still having fun. Today was our day off and a few of us hung out with our parents but most of the team went to the outlet shopping malls. It was suppose to rain most of the day but it ended up only raining in the morning and the sun was shining by 9 am. We have a ten o clock curfew tonight because we have games bright and early tomorrow. We are playing the University of Michigan-Dearborn again tomorrow and a Oneonta University and we expect to finish up tomorrow with two wins. Our spirits are still high and we are motivated to accomplish the goal that we came here to achieve.

Tomorrow we will have our team dinner and then its karaoke night at the restaurant on site again! All of the girls are looking forward to the team dinner because it is always one of the biggest bonding nights of the whole season. We get to change out of our softball uniforms into nice clothes and go out to dinner with everyone, definitely one of the highlights of spring break. Afterwards, we will look forward to another fun night of karaoke before we head out Thursday to finish our spring break at .500 with a 4-4 record!

I hope you are enjoying reading about our experiences throughout the week. We are working very hard and playing hard and we cannot wait to get back north to share our experiences and pictures with all of you in person!

Love,
TCSB