Franklin Series

I don't think there is a word in the human language that could describe how the Franklin series went. Franklin was our first conference home opener at UC and I can say that if you didn't come to the games to watch, you didn't miss too much.

As you know, we play three game series against conference opponents, minus Transy and Hanover. Anyway, we played Franklin Friday evening in a single nine inning game. If there was a highlight in this series, then this is the night it occurred. They jumped to a commanding lead through the game, crushing balls right and left. They were definitely a good offensive team, however their defense was shaky. We were down by seven going into the fifth inning. We had an 8-run fifth inning to retake the lead. It was amazing. Everything seemed to go right for us. They would boot a ball and we would capitalize on it. I'm sure Franklin's five errors in the game helped us out tremendously as well. Anyway, we ended up winning the first game, improving our conference record to 1-1.

Our double header Saturday against them was just plain ugly. They scored 10 runs in the first two innings. They were hitting piss ropes. I think I got whip lash from watching the balls fly by my head, but that's what happens when you see waist high fast balls at this level. Teams make you pay for those mistakes. Anyway, we got blown out of the water 14-3. The second game was a little bit better, but not by much. I mean they took an early lead again and we fought back. However, we came up short, losing 10-9. They had six errors that game and we still lost. They scored over 30 runs in three games against us and had close to 14 errors in the series!! It was like watching something out of the Twilight Zone. You couldn't believe what was happening.

Now our conference record in 1-3. We play a non-conference opponent Wednesday, which is Wilmington. They usually have a pretty good team so it should be interesting. We will see just how bad we want to avenge our losses thus far.