DC Softball Blogs About the Spring Break Trip

This week started the last week of our 5 am preseason practices. Wooooooooo!!!!!!! The pressure has been put on all players by coach because we will play our first game this Friday against Centre College. Practice has been going well and everyone has been pushing each other to perform at their best out on the field and at the plate. Each position has multiple people fighting for playing time and there is a lot of internal competition. This pushes players to perform at their best and makes coaches decision that much harder for a starting line-up for the game Friday. Every day we do full defense with the whole team and we have live runners to run for us. On Wednesday it was nice outside so many players went out to the field later in the day so we could take ground balls so we could get prepared for our upcoming games. It started out rough since we are used to the turf and the wonderful hops that the ball takes but we got used to how a normal softball field is and we had a decent time with Coach Butt dancing at home plate and amusing us all.

Friday morning starts the season and we are all very pumped and some of us are nervous for this first game. We depart at 8:30 Friday morning for Kentucky and we play at 5 and 7 Friday night. After we play those games we will get back on the bus with 27 loud girls and drive rest of the way to Florida. Saturday morning we will stop early morning and practice at a local high school in Florida and then we will continue on our way to Orlando. We play 2 games Sunday, 2 games Monday, we get to have Tuesday off to spend with our families if we would like, varsity plays 2 games on Wednesday and JV plays one game, and then we play 2 games Thursday and then head back to wonderful Defiance College afterwards.

Our spring break trip will set the tone for the rest of our season and we cannot wait to get out on the field and spend time with the people that are closest to us. We feel as though it is going to be a very good season for the DC softball team and we are ready for all of the challenges ahead. We believe that “To be the best you have to believe you are the best”. We believe we are the best and we will prove that this next week.

Much love,
Tori Plummer, Brittany Shough, Morgan Williamson