The next Monday rolls around, no off day this Monday, we play on Tuesday. The team begins to slowly come into the locker room, myself included. And you could see it the second you walked through the door, an empty locker. Someone quit. I was so confused. Why would someone quit in the middle of the season like this? There’s only like a month left and the conference tournament is as well. And to top it all off, it’s a pitcher who quit. A pitcher who gets more pitching time than half of the pitching staff. So, as expected, this left everyone so confused.
To add onto the mess this became, our starting first baseman is sick. And not the common cold type of sick, like so sick she can’t get out of bed. So now, we are down our top relief pitcher and our power hitting first baseman. It just seemed as though the season was beginning to crumble, right before our eyes. But, we had to keep trudging on. We can’t stop working and fighting to win.
The games on Tuesday went smoothly. Two wins. But that didn’t stop yet another girl quitting the team. That’s right. Two girls in a span of three days have quit the team. This time it was a back-up third baseman, but still a member of the team none the least. All this chaos led to teammates joking around and making bets on who is going to quit next. But behind the jokes was worry within the team. Girls are quitting left and right.
After winning two of three over the weekend, even without our first baseman, a sigh of relief came. We moved up in the conference rankings and had a better chance of making the post-season. Now if we could just get coach to take a breather as well, maybe the team would play a little better and more relaxed.
Softball Tea 