 Well, shifting to the diamond fresh off a program best third place finish in the conference tourney last season. PSU softball is ready to prove people wrong. Once again in 2018, they returned some key starters mixed with fresh faces ready to battle it out in the NSIC pick to finish 13th in the conference this season. BSU will once again embrace the underdog role, but they're ready to prove people wrong. 13 was a number in the locker for quite some time after that came out and you know it's it's we got to prove him. Being the underdog that's I mean good place to be you get to prove everyone wrong. They don't expect you to be there. You show up, surprise them, play well and then they're gonna start to pay attention to you. The beavers aren't even 11 and 11 heading into the conference part of the season but are starting to hit their stride at winning four of their last five. Any games we've lost we've learned from they've been close so each close game you learn from what you did wrong work on those mistakes so hopefully the wins keep tallying up. And the biggest question mark coming into 2018 replacing Jess Yos in the circle but in steps the North Dakota Gatorade player of the year Steffi Doolim who already leads the team in wins ERA and strikeouts. Every single time I go into the circle it's brand new ending new pitch new whatever so every single time I just try to think about just throwing strikes making sure that at least get around the plate so that the people behind me can back me up. But it's no secret if the beavers are gonna build off last year success and win games it's the offense that needs to set the tone. We're kind of changing the focus of being a team that we would go with two to one victories or three to one victories to now saying we're gonna have to score some runs. We're gonna put up you know if we can put up five six runs a game we're gonna be in a lot of these games. If we get our bats going and we all tally or rally them up together it goes really well so it just takes starting that fire and then we're gonna keep it. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland news please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.