Fall Ball is hereeee!

(EDITOR'S NOTE: Sonoma State softball senior and 2010-11 Student-Athlete Advisory Committee President Jesse Talaugon will keep her own blog this year at http://jessetalaugon.blogspot.com/, but we will keep this page up to date with any new blog posts she creates as well.)

Sorry for the delay on posting, this post will make up for the last two weeks, which were pretty eventful.

Two weeks ago marked the beginning of our traditional fall season and also the conclusion of self-conducted morning conditioning, because as a team, we have reached a point where we can practice more efficiently, because our fitness is up and we are now holding ourselves more personally accountable. I love the traditional fall season because it means more time on the field, more freedom to work outside of practice, because there are less restrictions, intrasquad scrimmages on Saturdays, and this upcoming weekend, we face Solano JC and San Francisco State in doubleheaders to start our preseason play. Although very new still, our defense looks pretty strong. We've got a roster full of just raw talent and we literally don't take a day off from improving that with lots of repetition, live defense drills, and "game time".

Offensively, we are still getting into the swing of things (no pun intended) with hitting circuits and trying to get as much live hitting as possible. It's nice to have four pitchers who are really making us earn it, but it's hard to handle that with only two catchers and a somewhat short-handed coaching staff, but we're making the most out of what we have. This year I think it is really going to be a goal of ours to prove that we are capable of using short game to our advantage. Last year, we were known for our big bats, power hitting, and record breaking stats in home runs, but this year we want to use all the speed that we have and attack the defense with changing things up by perfecting our short game and mixing that in with our powerful offense. I look forward to what the rest of this fall season brings and am excited for the preseason play starting this week with Solano.

SAAC has been super busy in preparing for Sonoma State's second annual Homecoming Week. It is really in efforts to create more school spirit and gain some more support of athletics. We have collected money and are sending it off to the American Cancer Society in order to help fund the Breast Cancer Walk in San Francisco next month while also brainstorming some ideas of how we can aide in the disaster relief in San Bruno. We are really excited about hosting the first ever home meet for our Cross Country girls this week in Santa Rosa and are going to show that via a breakfast tailgate this Saturday and representing Sonoma State proudly by wearing our "SSU BLUE CREW" shirts. We're hoping these shorts will spread and students, families, and fans can wear them to all of our school's sporting events.

School is really underway with a midterm approaching and deadlines coming out of nowhere, at least that's how I feel. I have a media law midterm this week where I have to memorize a million cases about the first amendment, libel, privacy law, etc. So it looks like the library is where my next few evenings will be spent while trying to sell some ads to local businesses for the schools newspaper which hasn't been that successful this far, but hopefully things will turn around for me in that avenue.

In other unrelated news I'm so disappointed in the 49ers and their performance lately, after that great showing against the Saints. I was hopeful, but I had to change the channel yesterday because I couldn't take it much longer. On the brighter side of sports, the Yankees pulled it off and clinched their spot for playoffs, ARod coming super clutch with the two run jack and the reserves coming in and stepping up to the plate with runners on base is exactly what I like to see.

Byeeee :)