Homesick: Toreros look for win after road woes

The USD softball team is gearing up for a big week as they prepare to host six teams for the San Diego Classic. The participants for the inaugural tournament  will include Buffalo, Wisconsin, UCLA, Fresno State, Cal Poly and Long Beach State.
This incredible compilation of teams will undoubtedly prove to be one of the toughest tournaments in the country this year.
The tournament will begin tomorrow at 11:30 a.m, with Wisconsin taking on Fresno State.
The Toreros will be in action at 4:30 p.m. against Buffalo and will also do battle with Wisconsin with the first pitch being thrown out at 7 p.m.
The girls are coming off a tough weekend in Las Vegas at the Louisville Slugger Classic two weeks ago. The ladies struggled as they dropped six games in three days.
When they take the field this Friday, it will mark their first game in 12 days.
This break in the schedule has been just what the doctor ordered for some, and an impatient waiting game for others.
Nagging injuries have plagued the squad in the early weeks of the season, and the break has allowed the girls to gather their feet underneath them as they prepare to move on.
“It would have been easier to jump right back in to a week of games,” junior third baseman Celeste Soto said. “A lot of the girls were determined to work through their frustration this week. Las Vegas was a wake up call for us. We agreed that we had things to work on and are glad that this happened early in the season so that we can make our adjustments and be ready for conference.”
Many championship teams have started slow in the history of sports in the modern era.
The 2010 women’s softball team has the potential to do extraordinary things this year thanks to a talented and focused group of young ladies determined to achieve greatness.
“It is better to get the bad out of the way now and have more experience playing good competition early on in the season,” Soto said.
“It is never easy to take a loss, or two, or six in a row, but this is setting us up to be competitive and ahead of the pack for when conference rolls around.”
In the tournament this upcoming weekend the softball team will play three other games against the University of Oregon Ducks, the Cal Poly Mustangs and the Long Beach State ‘49ers.
Hopefully this tournament will give the Toreros the boost they need to bounce back on track and prepare them for conference, as playing at home seems to cure all, even a losing a streak.