Saints Update – March 12

There's a popular expression in sports – "A team is only as good as its last game."

By this time tomorrow, we will know just how good the 2007 edition of St. Mary's baseball really is.

You can throw out our 2-0 start to the season – our 11-0 win over Augusta Christian and our 20-9 win over Tutt Middle School last week. And you can definitely throw out our 22-0 win over EDS in our preseason exhibition game two weeks ago.

Tuesday's game vs. EDS will literally be a whole new ballgame. And come Tuesday evening, we will truly have an accurate gauge on just how far this St. Mary's team will go in 2007.

Our players and coaching staff all know that the EDS team we saw two weeks ago is not the team we will see Tuesday. This is a quality ballclub, with lots of talent, led by Henry Rowland and Will Few, and they are a well-coached club led by Jacque Hawk.

And we are also a different team than the ones that played EDS in the preseason. The loss of captain and staff ace Sam Few again is a big blow for our ballclub.

But by the end of our practice Monday at Aquinas, for the first time all season, there was a sense of urgency with our players that we hadn't seen until now. For the first time since we began in January, there was a tremendous sense of pride surrounding this ballclub and a sense that our 14 remaining active players had truly bought into the concept of BIG TEAM LITTLE ME.

We saw at Aquinas Monday evening 14 players working as hard as they have all year long, hungrier than ever and ready step up to and take charge of their own fate.

By this time Tuesday, we all will know just how special the 2007 edition of St. Mary's Baseball really is.

Are we ready to MAKE A STATEMENT? We'll find out tomorrow.