We had a 17 hour bus ride from Fresno back to Rio Rancho. It was a fun bus ride, but it's tough being cooped up in a moving vehicle that long, with not much space to operate. Needless to say, I was very happy when I got off that bus. I think the whole trip kind of threw my body for a whirl. I have a lingering headache, and I'm pretty tired. But I've battled through it in these last few days of practice. On Monday, we had a practice where we did mostly hitting drills. They were tough drills, but definitely things we needed to work on, judging from the weekend. As a team, we didn't do a very good job of finishing our checks in our games against Fresno. As a team, we didn't come to practice on Monday ready to practice, either. We all looked bad, and it was really a waste of a practice. And that's no one's fault but ours. We need to come to practice ready to play every day. Coach wasn't too happy with our effort, and we paid for it today. We had an hour long bag skate. It was tough, but I think it was necessary to get ourselves back on track. We have important games coming up, and we can't be wasting days of practice.
With that said, it's time to put these two days of practice behind us and get ready for our games this weekend. With Christmas break coming up, I think it's easy to get distracted, but these 4 games we have left before break are really important, and they're against top teams in our division. I'm going to stay focused, keep working hard, and do what I can to improve these next few weeks.
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