| Show 24 Sunburned J r t z iu i en r kL T f y rF V R f kao Women's Softball Coach Amy Hogue talks to the team March 30 between games in a double header with Dixie College Photo by Kent Williams The Lady Bruin softball softball soft soft- ball team is on a quest to repeat as SW AC champs By Kent Williams Staff Writer RED Salt REDWOOD WOOD Salt Lake w IT Community rt College II has a aIT omen s o ream team who are hot for the 3rd straight year and they're real good at Softball too Currently they have a record of 6 wins and 4 losses in the and 23 wins and 16 losses in all games for the sea sea- son In 2000 the Lady Bruins Softball team won the Scenic West Athletic Conference title and earned place national ranking In 2001 they took second place in the Amy Hogue is the head coach of the team for the 3rd straight year Prior to her arrival at she was the assistant coach for the University of Utah women's Softball team She wants her team to get better but having fun is most important Each year I expect the same thing out of my players to have fun and get bet bet- ter I learned that from my high school coach years ago and truly believe in it Having fun is always first If you enjoy what you are doing then the work that you put in will never feel like work she said Amys Amy's former fonner high school coach Butch Lately came over from Alta High School and is now Amys Amy's assistant assistant assistant assis assis- tant coach Butch is in his year of coaching Softball The other assistant coach is Kyle who is also in his first year as assistant assistant assistant assis assis- tant coach Kyle is also the head Softball coach at Hunter Hunt r High School A game between the Bruins and Ricks College on Saturday March was a flip- flip flop game In the inning the score was Bruins 5 and Ricks 0 O. But in the the Vikings turned the score around and the Bruins were behind 10 to 5 The Bruins had one last chance but only one runner made it in Final Score Ricks 10 6 Things started happening and we just lost our tack and our focus went down said Vance I J 1 still dill mr j K r m r f m m r r ks u. u think we have a very good chance of making it to the national championship Today well we'll get another win she added On the second game of the days day's header double-header the Bruins beat Ricks 7 to 3 Haven Vance is one of the star players for the team To date she has the best batting average at most hits most RBI's and most doubles and triples on the team Kate who plays either catcher or 1 1st st base for the team is another Bruin Star leads the team with 7 home runs this season so far has the best slugging percentage percentage percentage per per- at and is second to Vance in RBI's at 27 Team pitcher Lisa Hansen hopes to pitch this years year's team into the national tournament We have a pretty good defense and a lot of poten poten- I think we can make it to the National Championship because were we're really good We just need to come together as a team and keep playing our game and I think well we'll do good she said The Lady Bruins will play their last regular season home game on April 6 at the Bruin Field at the Redwood Campus at Redwood Rd The regular season season season sea sea- son will end April 27 on the road at North Idaho College The tournament will be May 4 2 and the National Tournament May 16 18 Check the www for more info i A |
