Softball struggles over break, on six game skid

Andy Dygert
News Editor
April 1, 2004, Page 6

After a rough Spring Break trip, going 2-4, the Tigers softball team (3-12 overall, 0-2 in the Great Plains Athletic Conference) is ready to turn its fortune around in the upcoming conference games.
“We need to come together now that we’ve reached conference play,” senior co-captain Brooke Ruhter said. “We need to win this coming weekend.”
The Tigers finished their trip by playing last year’s National Champions Simon Fraser University (NAIA #1) and the University of Chicago. Although they lost to both teams Ruhter was positive about the team’s performance.
“We played the defending National Champions and although they scored a lot in the beginning of the game we came together better at the end,” Ruhter said.
The Tigers played their first two conference games at Nebraska Wesleyan University Tuesday. They lost both games with scores of 5-2 and 3-1. The Tigers’ next game is at Mount Marty College at 5 p.m. today in Yankton, S.D.
The team will also play five games over two days this weekend as they head to Sioux City, Iowa, to participate in the Morningside Spring Invite.
“We could have done better on our trip,” Ruhter said. “But we now just need to look ahead at the rest of our season.”