Week Seven

For week seven I switched it up again and wrote a softball story instead. But like the baseball story it did not make paper or online.

By: Sergio Valencia

            Rain brings an end to De Anza Softball awful loss against Diablo Valley College Friday afternoon.

Marking the fifteenth straight loss for De Anza this season and the fifth time they’ve been shut out after losing 9-0.

            From the beginning the Diablo Valley Vikings poured it on against the Dons. Earning 6 of their 9 runs at the top of the second inning.

            Team captain, and pitcher Molly Mills would have the hard task of rallying the team and keeping the team with a positive energy after having a few errors, she said.

“You really just have to forget about the errors,” said Mills, “You just have to shake them off really quick and not let it affect the rest of the game.”

After a horrible second inning the Dons defense stiffened a little and finally earned its only run of the game during the fourth inning courtesy third base(wo)man Katie Failner.

Since she was young Failner has been a part of struggling teams so she always tries to do her part by being a voice for the team giving them positive criticism, she said.

“Give them criticism but positively because girls are more sensitive,” said Failner “Making sure that the criticism is constructive and not destructive.” 

Criticism and all De Anza still could not catch a break, yet alone a ball. Allowing a pop up to first to land on the ground instead of a glove after there was a mix up between several players on who was going to catch it.

Yup, that’s the type of day they had.

Diablo Valley on the other hand would capitalize on the Dons mistakes, picking up the final two scores of the game in the fifth inning.

By this point Dons head coach Megan Kravets was making changes to the line ups on both offense and defense trying to find a formula that works.

“I was just trying to change things up for pitching to see if it would help,” said Kravets “And to see if we can make any changes in the outfield for us to give us more depth.”

  Its clear De Anza is still trying to find its groove, and the team still has its head up. “A win is coming soon” said Mills.