Hoosiers begin Under Armour Invite

While most IU students will still be in Bloomington today waiting for spring break to start, the Hoosiers (1-8) are already in Florida. The Hoosiers are one of 14 teams competing in the Under Armour Invitational hosted by the University of South Florida this weekend. \nFirst on the schedule for the Hoosiers is Fairfield (1-4) today at 2:30 p.m. Coming off Sunday’s loss to Kentucky, where the Hoosiers were leading 5-4 after five innings, IU coach Stacey Phillips insists the team is close to putting things together.\n“We need to transition what we do in practice to the game,” Phillips said. “In Sunday’s game I saw a lot of fight and energy in them.”\nDespite the 1-8 start, Phillips and her players do not seem too concerned with their early season struggles. One reason the team isn’t concerned is because they are about to play a minimum of 16 games in 11 days.\n“I am not down, we have a lot of games coming up,” said sophomore infielder/catcher Emily Bergeson. “We are looking at each game at a time.”\nSenior outfielder Julia Hamilton thinks the team’s record is reason enough to play well in the upcoming games.\n“At 1-8, that should be motivation for us,” Hamilton said. “We will be able to turn \nit around.”\nGetting hits and scoring runs troubled the Hoosiers in their first tournament in California. The Hoosiers hit the ball better last weekend in the Frost Classic in Chattanooga, Tenn., but did not score as well as they would have liked, only scoring four runs in their first three games of the series.\nThe Hoosiers hope their hitting leads to scoring as the team enters into this week’s play.\n“We just started doing a swing breakdown (Tuesday) in practice which I think will help,” Bergeson said. “It made us more focused \nand disciplined.”