Playing Well Against a Weak Team: Webster 16, Parkway North 0

Parkway North didn't look like a team coming off an 18-4 win yesterday, as the Statesmen, despite being down two players due to illness or injury, put the game out of reach right from the start with an 11-run first inning, ended only with a deliberate "leaving early" call. We tacked on 4 in the second and an additional run in the third. Meanwhile, behind Allyson Peters strong turn in the circle and excellent defense on the infield, we played like we were playing a team that could mount a threat.

It may seem an easy task to beat a weak team, but that's not really true. There is a tendency to "play down" to the level of competition. To a certain extent that happened Monday against Ritenour, but not today against the Vikings. We didn't go to sleep, get sloppy, and, in fact, turned in some of our strongest defense of the year, including a non-traditional double play, scored 5-3-6 engineered by Julia Love, Alina Castro and Zoe Schulz. Emma Hintze continued to drive in runs by the bunch and both Olivia Weik and Skyler Jones took advantage of the blowout to work on some advanced skills with their slapping game.

All in all, this game offered us a chance to be ready for a tough match tomorrow against against Festus down at Sunset Park.