After a tough weekend of games, against nationally ranked teams, the softball team is looking to rebound against Siena College today at 6 p.m. The team is 2-6 so far this season, and is ready for its first home game of the year in the friendly confides of Dail stadium.

“Playing at home, there is nothing better. All of your friends and family are there and the crowd helps out a lot,” junior Lindsay Campana said. “There is just a huge advantage playing at home.”

The team also believes that there are added advantages to playing at home besides the crowd and not having to travel.

“There is just a certain comfort there too, knowing our field.” Campana said. “There is just a huge advantage playing at home and I think it is underestimated sometimes but we are really looking forward to finally being at home.”

Campana isn’t the only one who is ready for a home game. Junior Allison Presnell believes that playing at home brings an added responsibility of protecting the field.

 ”It is a different feel on a neutral field, but at home you want to protect your field,” Presnell said. “We want to win every game.”

Going into the game the team is not as concerned on who it’s are playing but rather how they play. The team believes that if they take care of what they need to take care of, the game will come out in their favor.

“As a team we have really worked on playing for ourselves and not so much worrying about the other team. So, on Wednesday we are going to focus on not beating ourselves,” Campana said. “We just want to keep working on the things we have been working on over the last couple of weekends and I think we will be successful.”

Since the start of the season the Pack has learned that it cannot worry about things out of the team’s control. In addition the players realize that they need to stay together as a team and focus on fundamentals and making the ordinary plays.

 ”We just need to take care of the little things,” Campana said. “If we do everything we are supposed to do then we are going to win.”

Even after a rough weekend in which the team went winless in the Cathedral Classic in California, the Pack is still seeing signs of improvement which should carry over into this game and further into the season.

“The wins and losses we are not happy about, but we still accomplished a lot,” Presnell said. “We had a lot of close games against a lot of highly ranked teams and when you play tough teams you get better.”