Student Blogger: Will Cornelius

Another Daw-some evening downtown

If you have every played a single game of competitive baseball in your life, then you are more than aware that every player in the majors is living the dream.  If you happen to find yourself in that boat, then you also know that the chance to live a day in their shoes is probably up there with your wedding day and your first-born child. As such, our game against Greensboro last night night was nothing short of amazing -- the field is immaculate, the locker rooms are unreal and we just so happened to be playing our biggest rivals.  

We arrived especially early to drink it all in, but the true highlight of the evening had to be Zack Daw "churning the butter" to the tune of a shutout victory.  I have to shout him out because ZD has been "Dawsome" this year for us, topped off with ANOTHER BIG WIN last night.  The bigger Starbuck also hit one off the scoreboard that could potentially cause technical problems for the Hoppers this summer.  Just a great all around win/night.  

Ironically enough, i have to go to work right now -- at the Grasshoppers' stadium.  Just thought I'd be remiss if i didn't shout out our first sweep of Greensboro since I've been here.  Again, props to Daw and big Buck.  Now it's time to get ready for the weekend.  We need to bring it against Virginia Wesleyan to keep our chances of the ODAC Tourney alive.  Hopefully I'll have something up about the weekend Sunday night.  Thanks for stopping by, and until next time..keep it classy.

-- WC

“I know it seems hard sometimes but remember one thing. Through every dark night, theres a bright day after that. So no matter how hard it gets, stick your chest out, keep ya head up.... and handle it.”

-- Tupac

PS Final Four is this weekend..Who ya got?  You on the MSU Bandwagon..or cheering for Butler in the HOME game?  Drop me a line in the comment box..

The Title-less Title

Baseball is a crazy game.  It's really the only thought popping into my head as I sit here and pray Duke can pull off the win over Baylor.  I typically hate Duke, but I guess as a former ACC employee I should probably cheer for any team left at this point. Anyway, back to baseball.  Since my last post we managed to drop eight consecutive games, including two heart breakers on the road against Washington and Lee.  It seems like every game thus far has been a heart breaker, actually. We were winning both games in the last inning, but somehow let them come back and take two wins that should have been ours.  Taking a loss is always tough, but it is especially difficult when they are just taken from you. If anything that has been our motto thus far...we are very good but keep losing games we SHOULD win.  We really just need to stay together as a team and anything is really possible.  I guess it's really more than a motto at this point, because we stuck through all the hard times and took two HUGE games from Eastern Mennonite this weekend, putting us right back into the hunt for the ODAC tournament.  Now we really control our own destiny -- we take care of business over the last few weeks and were in...we slide in any way and well be watching the tourney from the stands. 

Its halftime now, and Duke is starting to play like little girls.  But regardless of how terrible Brian Zoubek is (some say he's the best screen setter in the league though) it's time to take advantage of today's cancellation and do some homework. Hopefully I'll be back on by the end of the week with an update on this weekend's conference action.  Shout out to the men's basketball team real quick though.  Sorry it fell short fellas, but touche on the run.  Finally, Heavy P..let the haters hate.  We BOTH knew Tom Izzo would lead them to the promise land.  Okay..enough playing around though.  Thanks for stopping by..be easy until next time.

-- WC

"Did you see that?  He's smiling like he just stole a Christmas tree"

-- Will James, Fr. Pitcher