Yellowjackets Baseball

This last week was the biggest turn around I have ever been a part of on a team, and let me tell you, it is just getting started. On Tuesday we started off practice by focusing on the little things in baseball and getting better on focusing on everything. We worked harder that day in practice than any other day by far, and it showed. All week we worked to become the best and play like the best. With motivation from coach, we started to play like champions and it began with our practices. We were ready for conference play.

The first game against Oshkosh went in favor of Oshkosh of 10-8 but we played very well and competed with them, and that fueled the fire for the next game. We ran off in the 5th when we put up a 6 spot and did not look back from there. TJ Wink pitched a great game only allowing 3 and we went on to win 11-3 with great offense and stealer pitching. Paul Schlangen hit two homeruns and Mitch Loegering hit one to give the offense a boost. The third game we started off rough letting up 8 runs in the first two innings and finished falling 13-5. But that defeat didn’t stop us from fighting and playing like we know how too. The final game of the weekend we got the bats going by putting up 7 runs in the 2nd, 7 runs in the 3rd, and another 5 runs in the 4th. That was one of the most exciting games I have been a part of and it seemed like people were scoring on every hit. Everyone contributed on offense in that game, and Alex Lagadin got the win pitching. Senior Captain Paul Schlangen put the exclamation point on the weekend by hitting a monstrous homerun in the 7th to make it 21-5. The split with Oshkosh was nice and felt good, but we know that we can fight even harder and make good things happen down the road. We are 2-2 in conference play right now and will add to that next weekend in Stevens Point. For now, we got another hard week of practice where we will be preparing to fight like champions.

We are Superior