STLCC softball ends the regular season with a winning record.
BY: ASHLEY BIUNDO
Editor-In-Chief
The STLCC softball season didn’t need to make a lot of changes while playing during a pandemic. Assistant coach Ken Williams said that COVID-19 hasn’t affected too much. “We haven’t missed any games because of it. We’ve been able to play through all of them,” he said. “We’ve had a few rainouts and a few cancellations. Well, we did have one cancellation against Lincoln. I think they said they’re coming off COVID, which would have been [on May 3].” Williams also said that the team has been fortunate to not lose any players all year.
The pandemic has made it difficult for the softball season because of worrying about what could happen according to Williams. Scheduling can be hard. “Just worrying about if you’re going to get games in, if somebody cancels at the last minute, you figure you got to play,” he said. “And then next thing, they’ve cancelled out because it COVID. So you have to rearrange everything.”
Softball has had a good season with pitching and their defense according to Williams. “Hitting has been adequate, we’ve had 4 or 5 hit the ball real good. And a couple at the lower end of the batting order,” he said.
At the beginning of the season STLCC softball was nationally ranked. “We went up against a lot of tough teams this year,” he said. “We were nationally ranked at the beginning of the season.” And once these other schools see it, then you have a target on your back. So they’re wanting to beat you because that way they move up in the rankings.”
Williams hopes that the softball players gain knowledge of the game from this past season. “Just the knowledge of the game and that they’ve learned something through all the practices and they’ve gotten better and a lot of them are going on to four years ago so they’ll be able to achieve up there,” he said.
