Ten straight wins, six shutouts, and 90 combined runs is what was accomplished from March 6 to March 29.

“You could say we had some good mojo going on during the month of March,” said junior center fielder Matthew Garrison.

This all came to an end April 1, during a double header that was originally scheduled on April 2.  The Wildcats (12-3, 4-2) faced the number one team in the state, the Fayetteville Bulldogs (6-0), who have two pitchers committed to Division I schools.

“The game didn’t go the way we planned, and you can’t win them all I guess is the best way to say it,” said senior pitcher Zach Thompson who contributed to two of the six shutouts during the month of March.

The Bulldogs gave the Wildcats a taste of their own medicine, shutting them out the first game 5-0. In the second game the Wildcats did noticeably better, but still losing 9-4.

“It was a dagger to the heart, but it happens in baseball,” said Garrison. “All I’m focused on is the tournament.”

After winning ten games in a row, in a way a team forgets how to lose, how it tastes, and how it feels.

“It was obviously tough after losing those first two because we were getting really comfortable with winning, but we have to realize there’s a lot of baseball left,” said junior left fielder Gus Vitt. “Right now I think we’re sitting pretty good, because we know what it takes to win and how it feels to lose.”