Every year hundreds of lacrosse teams at multiple levels use their spring break to fit in a couple of away games. As a matter of fact, this is not an uncommon practice for all spring sports. Coincidentally, this year U of M's softball team happened to be in the Jacksonville area playing in a tournament during our final days here.

In the spirit of Michigan athletics, we arranged an evening at a local restaurant with the ladies on Thursday night and attended their Jacksonville University game on Friday night. While the similarities between our two sports are far and few, the commonalities amongst our players are well pronounced.

Our dinner on Thursday night started off the same way any 7th grade dance would. The boys and girls came in separately; the boys arriving first and establishing themselves around the room in every-other chair, while the girls arrived in small bunches giggling amongst themselves as they scoured the room for familiar faces and made quick decisions about which boys would be least offensive. (Unfortunately that meant that Favorite, Donnell, and Rose sat by themselves)

After the initial moment of awkwardness, the rest of the night went by unfettered. Both teams shared stories and gossiped about their players (Ein in particular) and enjoyed a well-deserved meal after a long and eventful week.

On Friday night the women's softball team came out in true maize and blue fashion and crushed Jacksonville University in just 5 innings as we cheered them on in the light rain. At the end of the game both teams participated in a rendition of Hail to the Victors that would have sent chills down the spin of any Michigan alum. Even though we were almost 1000 miles away from Ann Arbor, I don't think that any of us felt far away from the Michigan difference .