Provincials - Day 1

Soooo we biffed today.

First game, just terrible. 6-0 loss. We played Smitty's 91, the best team in our age category by far... but we can absolutely beat them! We've come close SO many times... losing by no more than 2. Legit... we could've had em. But our coaches didn't even put a decent line up together. We didn't have our strongest on the field, we didn't have the strongest in the proper order on the batting line-up... it was just bad.

Anyway, whatever about that game! We shook it off and came back at 3:00 (first game was 11) and played the Phillies. Really intense game, 0-0 for 7 innings. But, let me tell you something quickly.... about 3rd/4th inning, we make a play at one, and Rylee(first baseman) hucks the ball down to three to try and get the girl as she rounds the bag (SO close.... she did the splits to stay on the bag), she's safe... clearly... and the girl on first was out.... or so everyone though. - She was already across the 3rd baseline's foul line, when the umpire said runner on 1 is safe... uhm okay? Rylee asks for the ball and she tags the base, and the runner (3x's) Umpire still says she's safe... Okay, this makes no sense... she left the bag, didn't stay in 'foul' territory, and walked off the field. The umpire claimed to have called time at SOME point during this time so she had a 'right' to walk of the field... but how could he have called time if there was still a play going on? Anyway, needless to say, our fearless coach went out there and yelled at them, then made an appeal or whatever, he went over to get the chief umpire and they discussed this... they left... girl was still called safe, so Sean went ahead and decided he was going to get tossed from the game... threw his hat, said some swears and walked off the diamond. Kind of funny because he had a smile on his face the whole time... certainly not how to handle the situation, but still funny. anyway... we went into an international tie breaker (start with runners on 2nd). We went first... didn't score.. then they did... so we lost in extra innings 1-0. Darn.

Last game was good... still not good enough. We played hard, made a few mistakes... were up 5-1.... ended up losing 7-6 or something. again... SO close.

We'll come back tomorrow. We start at 9am and another at 1pm.

Oh yeah! I coached the bantams for their second game at 7pm today... they were down by 4, came back in the 5th inning to score 5 (brings it to 6-5). The other team scored one run (6-6)... the girls were home.... it's now bottom of 6.... they don't do anything this inning.... top of 7... they hold em.... bottom of 7... THEY SCORED ONE WITH TWO OUTS!!!! the crowd goes wild, the girls are almost in tears. I was so proud.