Friday night boxes may show up later than other nights because, well,
they're on Friday.
If I were to pick one team that we regularly play to NOT open up against,
it would be Seckman. For any number of reasons we have not matched up well
against them for, well, as long as I've been coaching the JV. Last year was a
moral victory as we actually batted in the 7th inning.
We made it through the first at 0-0, offering some hope, but a 7-run second
inning, abetted by three errors, followed by more four errors and five more
runs in the third guaranteed a short game.
We're still trying to configure out best offensive and defensive lineups
after losing Brittany Hartung to the varsity (and based on her performance at
that level, I doubt we'll see any more of her except at practice; but that's
what we want for our players, to get them ready to perform well at the next
level).
Heat shortened and indoor practices, absences and injuries have conspired
to lots of moving parts and not enough defensive repetitions. Unfortunately, it
will be Thursday before we can apply our (and in the case of tonight's game,
painful) lessons in practice.
We travel to Hazelwood West on Tuesday and host Cor Jesu on Wednesday.
Neither will be a cakewalk. Coach Poe and Ro (hmmm, perhaps a string duo?) did a nice job keeping us up to date using GameChanger, for those who followed along.
Grace Behrle had our only two hits and drove in our lone run. Alina Castro
sparkled in left field, not only with a tremendous shoe string catch but also
in being active backing up and hustling.
This is a young team that will mature as the
season goes along and become more comfortable in their roles. There were
definite positives and this is just the first step in a learning process that
will make this a successful season. We will be better, individually and as
team, by the time the tournaments roll around in September and October.
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