With rainouts over the course of spring break, the baseball and softball teams will have to deal with a packed schedule this next week during an important part of their seasons.

“This week is like any other,” softball coach Jeff Roberts said. “Danielle is going to start in the circle. She’s going to pitch all three games. If we run into problems or we need to sub we definitely can. Stephanie, Mallory, and Kallie can all do a great job pitching for us.”

There are concerns that key players will not be able to bounce back from performance to performance, especially with the baseball team.

“Thankfully we’ve got quite a few pitchers that can jump in any day in any role,” head baseball coach Russell Reichenbach said. “We’ll get through one game at a time and then whoever we call on is going to have to step up and get it done. I am confident that the guys we have will step in whenever they’re called and do it.”

The softball team has a more fortunate situation as they head into their busy week.

“It doesn’t put as much torque on the arm from a softball standpoint as it does from a baseball standpoint,” Roberts said. “Softball is an underhand motion, it’s a more natural motion, and therefore pitchers are used to pitching six games in a two day period and being just fine. We kind of got lucky, Prosper was unable to get umpires for tomorrow night, so we are having to play Wednesday, so therefore we get to play Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and it actually gives everyone in our program a day off between each game.”

The weather has gotten in the way of finding a groove in their seasons and they are reacting the best they can.

“[The weather] thing can be looked at as an excuse,” Reichenbach said. “The thing is that everyone is in the same position. Every team in the area is having to deal with rain outs. I’m trying to preach to the guys that, whether we are inside or outside, they are making the most of every day. We’re controlling the things we can control and the weather is not one of them. Hopefully when it is game time, we will be ready to go.”