Softball Looks To Grow In Second Season
by Rick Kocher
The Oberlin softball team will begin their season on Monday at Case
Western Reserve at 3 p.m..

(photo by Lee Dolan)
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The softball ladies were in good spirits during Thursday�s practice
and are in high spirits about their second season. Regarding Monday�s
game returning starter and ace pitcher junior Dawn Sweeney said �We
are going to have fun, make few errors and hit the ball.�
According to Head Coach Jane Wildman, �The season started back on Feb.
5 in Jones field house. We only had eight or nine players and our main
concern at that time was being able to field a team.� Since that time,
the team has been able to add some players. Wildman said, �We have 14
players now, including four returners from last season. The other 11
are either first-years or first-time players.�
In only their second season of play, the women�s softball team is building
from the ground up, with 11 first time players on 14-woman roster. Although
focused on this season Coach Wildman talked about recruiting saying,
�We put a lot of effort into recruiting this year.�
Wildman talked about the team�s focus, saying �We have had much improvement
from our new players and we will continue to improve. The first six
to eight games of the season we will focus on learning and improving.�
The team will not go south for a spring break trip this season, as is
typical for softball and baseball teams. During these spring break trips
teams play five to 10 games in a week. Those games focus on experience,
learning and also fun. However, because the team was not sure they would
have enough people to field a team they had to cancel this year�s trip.
Unfortunately, this spreads the teams first few games of learning out
over a longer period of time.
Hopefully the team will learn everything they need to succeed in a short
amount of time, and start the season off with a win against the Spartans.
The team�s fist two home games will be during spring break on March
29 and 30.
