Yellowjackets Baseball

This past week has been tough on our team. Scott Hoium begain the week on a high note as he received the Lunch Pail for the first time. Scott has been working extremely hard this year and definitely deserved the honor of carrying the Lunch Pail with him. He has been taking extra cuts, pushing around some extra weight in the weight room (and consequently losing some from his own frameJ) and doing above and beyond what has been expected of him. Well deserved Shades, well deserved.

One a more somber note, the Twin Ports lost a prominent baseball figure this past week. St. Scholastica’s head baseball coach John Baggs lost his battle with cancer on Tuesday morning. Though many on our team have never met him, his impact on our team can be seen every day. It’s common knowledge that Coach Morgan played for him and coached with Mr. Baggs, and alot that Coach teaches is from Baggs’ tutelage. His legacy will live on through Coach Morgan in our program as we build our own baseball identity and culture here at UWS. May God bless Collen, Maddux, and Josie. We are so sorry about your loss!

On a lighter note, we look forward to seeing some fresh faces at the Metrodome next Wednesday when we play Hamline at 11:45am. Take care and God Bless.

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Well, after two and a half weeks of practice, our legs are tired and our bodies are aching, but we're still enthusiastically working towards our goals. We've been taking our pre-game infields with a little added twist. For every error we make, we have to run an inning. An inning is a sprint the width of a tennis court. For instance, for eight innings, we will run 8 sprints back and forth and then take a break. Then we run seven, then six, then five, etc. The innings are meant to add game-like pressure to our infields so that when a pressure situation comes around in a game we'll be ready for it. We just recieved our new workout plans for weeks 18 and 19 of our lifting program. This phase of the progrum focuses on strength to help us get as strong as possible before the season starts. After this phase, we'll enter a maintenance phase to help us keep our strength throughout the season. It's getting tough to fit practice, our lifts, and homework into our already busy schedules, but that's the life of a collegiate athlete.

This spring, coach is also teaching us a different style of hitting than he has the past two years. This form of hitting is what every single MLB player uses and is what enables Vlad or Sorianoto drop bombs on pitches 6 inches BELOW the plate. Yeah, he's good. Already there has been considerable improvement in the quality of our swings. Hopefully this new approach leads to better AB's and more run production than last year. We have the next two days off so this should help us recover and bring better focus to practice on Friday.

We hope to see a lot of you at the metrodome on March 4th. We play Hamline University at 11:15 am. Talk to blog world soon!