Coaches Corner for July 2nd: Lindsey Hyman, Boone Softball

Joining us on coach's corner, KWBG. Gonna talk some boon softball today. Interment coach Lindsey Hyman joining us. The Torridors get ready for Perry tonight. They'll have winter set then as we look ahead to next week on Monday and then boom, Carol comes to town and that's actually we're gonna start with Lindsey. We're gonna work our way back from there because when we talked last week, we didn't know what the pairings were yet. We had some ideas. We had some stuff written down on paper. We were like, hey, we can fix this for you, Iowa Girls Union, just give us a call. Now, Lindsey, they didn't give us a call. The positive part of my opinion though, A, you're a home game, B, you're a home game. We love to be home in post-season. Yeah, 100%. I mean, obviously I think we thought maybe we would be a two seed. We ended that three seed, but looking at our bracket, I feel really good about what's in front of us. I think the positive part, even though I'm not a fan of this Lindsey, but every time I'm on top of this mountain, somebody always pushes me off, so please don't push me off either. But I hate when I have two conference schools have to play in the first round. I've always said, if you've got to play at conference school, I want you both to win and have to play in the second round. Now, it didn't happen, although I guess the positive part, Lindsey, is you do play Carol a team you just played a few weeks ago. Yeah, we will get another stab at Carol, and we always just want to remind the girls that anybody is beatable. Doesn't matter if you handed it to them the first time or not, so we obviously have to come out ready to play. It's a blessing and a curse. They play just as many hard teams as we do, so they're going to know the ability of each of us, so they are used to playing hard teams just like we are, and we'll have to be ready to go. But we're excited to be home, stay in the flow of having a game, not having a buy. We'll get a couple practice days in before, which we'll definitely need, and hopefully can knock them out and move on to the next one, which is probably Sergeant Bluff. Well, and the interesting thing too, I'm glad you brought up the practices, Lindsey. How long do you go with practices like that when you've had such a grind of a season? Do you come in, do you hit a little bit, couple of fields, and get them out, or what's kind of the plan looking forward? Oh yeah, no, we definitely, practices have been huge. We had a big one the other day, last Friday. We have another one tomorrow, just to tweak some of the stuff that we're seeing in the game. This schedule's hard because you don't have a whole lot of adjustments. We try to make some, you know, the hour before we get on the bus, but until you can really grind it out in an actual practice, you need that. So we're excited, got a list of all the things we need to get ready for against Carol, against Sergeant Bluff, potentially against North Polk. That is like what you were saying, they are conference teams, so you know what you're getting, you know what you need to be prepared for, which is great in some ways when you think about the negative side of having to see them a third time. Well, here's another negative thing, and Mother Nature was not the best friend of any outdoor sports here this past week. Lindsey, how did the girls deal with the heat? And really, it wasn't even a gradual heat, it just kind of boomed right away on Monday. Yeah, I mean, truly it's been a blessing this whole summer of our weather until this week, which was hot. Obviously going to ADM, you know, the first time we went there, we went there, sat there for an hour and then drove home, so we got to go back. We played really well with the heat against ADM, ADM's number one team in the state. They have two, well, for sure one D1 pitcher and probably a second D1 pitcher. And our girls just hung in there, they played hard. We limited airs, we had a chance against both games in that heat, so they were tough. We really showed that we can hang with anybody again on Monday night in that double header. Had a good win against Nevada, and then last night's game against Bondi. You know, they've been hot here recently, and we just wanted to play boons off ball and not make some errors. We did have a couple errors, but we didn't give up. We got down initially, and I appreciate that has been the biggest growth for our girls this year, is them not just rolling over and saying, well, we lost that one. We have come back and come back. Now, we haven't gotten a W, but I'm proud of their resilience and hoping that can trickle into our district games. Well, now it's kind of an interesting part, Lindsay, because you get a non-conference game tonight, then you get off Friday, and then obviously the weekend for fourth of July, then you're back at Winterset, then you get a couple of days until Carroll. So how do you kind of maneuver here from now? Let's just go now until after Winterset.

So we have practice tomorrow. Can work on some of those, just getting those tweaks. We've got our last, you know, JV2, JV and varsity game against Winterset, which they will come out wanting some revenge on that one. And then after that, we have two days of practice, our district game, and we actually just called in, we're gonna get some practice done on some turf to prep for that potential North Polk game just because it's different to play on turf than it is dirt, and we have to give them a chance to be ready for that. So hoping to get some good practices in here in the morning. We're gonna do a mixture of morning practices and night practices just to prep them for when they play. I mean, we play games at night, we wanna practice at night when they're replicating kind of what they're gonna get in that regard, so. Well, you got to do something, Lindsay, you haven't got to do for a few years. Now, granted, you've watched Senior Nights, and when you were able to step in and BAD, you had to kind of help out a little bit on Senior Nights, but you got to be a coach during a Senior Night. How was that early this week? Yeah, no, that was so great to do it on her, those two. Noel did such a great job in that game. She just loves the game so much. She puts her heart and soul into it. She had some nice hits, played a great first base, and she's going on to play at the collegiate level, which we're super excited for for her. And then, you know, Gia has never played softball before, and so for her to just try something new and stick with it, she's the best cheerleader in the dugout for her team. And, you know, at the end of the day, softball matters a lot, but just being a human matters even more, right? And growing as a person, and both of those girls have just really shown what great people there are, so it was an honor to get to commemorate them. I bet that was a lot of fun. All right, final thing, give me a couple of things on Perry here tonight. What do you want to see? What do you want to see from your girls? I know we've talked about resiliency, but I know we also like to score some runs. Is that maybe kind of on the mind here tonight, try to score early and often? Yeah, you know, I mean, early on, I think we were playing down to the level of our competition, and Perry's had kind of a rough year, they're 4'18", and so we're just hoping we play boon softball. No matter what happens at the score, we want to see line drives, not pop-ups. We want to see moving runners. We left a lot of runners on last night, so I'd like to see some girls in timely hitting, not just hitting it in itself, but when we have runners on, how do we move the ball to get runs scored? So yes, definitely run, limiting errors, and honestly, just going out there and having fun. Love to hear that. Lindsay, as always, thank you so much for some time. Best of luck tonight and next week as well. Thanks so much, Ryan. You bet, Lindsay Hyman again, joining us, boon softball here on Coach's Corner.