Warrior Softball falls to 6-7 on the season

Warrior Softball falls to 6-7 on the season
 On the first weekend of March, the Warriors' softball team hosted the Oakdale Tournament and went 2-1 losing to Merryville 8-7 in the opener and then exploded winning 13-1 against Lagrange and 15-0 against Grace Christian.
 "The girls were pumped, but we just waited too long to hit the ball," said head coach Alycia McDaniel about the Friday night loss to Merryville. "We waited to the Bottom of the Seventh to score six runs. We had a runner at second base with the opportunity to win the game, and one of our bigger hitters couldn't come through. We had some good offensive plays, but some errors that if we would not have made we would have dominated Merryville."
 Assistant coach Benjamin Jones liked what he saw from his team fundamentally in the next game against Lagrange. He said, "We performed the fundamentals really good like we laid down some bunts, and baserunning was really good."
 "Fundamentals were great," agreed McDaniel.
 Jones credited the two wins in the tournament to fielding precision. "In both those games, we had no errors," he said. "I don't know if it gets in their heads if it's a weaker team they play better, but we didn't make a single throwing error or fielding error in either of those games."
 "I thought it would be a big confidence booster for them because that's what we needed," said McDaniel about her team's performance in the tournament. "We started the season off 3-0. We were pumped, and then we had Rosepine."
 Oakdale lost to Rosepine 14-1 in the first district game, then lost to Bunkie 5-3. Since then they lost 10-0 to Menard and 4-3 to Rapides beginning district play at 0-4. "The Rapides game was tough," said McDaniel. "We were winning the entire game and had a couple of little mental errors that they scored on. We scored three runs, and then after that we were complacent with being three runs ahead of them, and they waited until the Bottom of the Seventh and came up and beat us by one run."
 The team them competed in the Tioga Tournament and faced the host team on Friday night. The Warriors only managed three hits as they lost 3-0. "Against Tioga Brianna Hargrove got on base three different times," said Jones. "She came to bat the first time and walked. The next two times she got a hit, but out of our top four hitters she was the only one to do that."
 Cheyenne Fruge, according to Jones, led off and "popped up almost every time." Skylar Chambley then batted second and "struck out every time." He continued, "And then our third batter which was Darien Phillips didn't get a hit either."
 "My biggest thing is that we want everybody to be able to bunt, and we have not been successful," McDaniel said. "As coaches we want to manufacture runs and try to produce as much as we can because we're doing a good job defensively without the little throws that were errors that cost us."
 "Tioga is a great team that beat Bunkie 10-0, and we held them to three runs," continued McDaniel. "I look for us to improve as long as our bats come around. If the girls will come together and believe that they can win and not let our district intimidate them because our district is brutal, but at the same time we have the talent to go a lot further than people will ever expect us to go."