I started to write this a couple of weeks ago but decided to wait until the World Series ended. I'm not sure why but I guess I wanted to see how our Super Regional loss stacked up against what happened in the final outcome of the World Series. We came into the season ranked in every collegiate baseball poll. That in itself was up-lifting after the utter disappointment of the 2015 season.
The early part of the season is usually loaded with semi-cream puffs that provide some competition but are teams we can overcome with more talent. Although we did stumble slightly we found out a lot about ourselves in the initial phase while going 7 and 2 before heading out to the west coast for what we thought would be a real test for ourselves.