Ball, Ball and More Ball

Well, we've pretty much lived at a ballfield since last Wednesday night around 8:00 pm. It all began with our co-ed late games last Wednesday. We split and had a great time. Special thanks to Dave for filling in for us at shortstop!

Moving on to Thursday, we saw the first Conference USSSA tourney of the season begin at our office at 3:30. Since there is lots to do during one of these events, we all pitched in and finally left around 11:00 since Bradley did have school Friday. Friday morning the games began at 8:00. Val came out and assisted with selling merchandise as I was involved in a couple of meetings Friday morning. Our first game was broadcast over the internet Friday night with TR pulling camera duty. All in all, I think it went very well for our three camera newbies. We finally left around 12:15 Friday night only to return Saturday morning at 9:00. Special thanks to Shay and Val for helping me with merchandise on Saturday. With extra inning games and an injury, by late Saturday we were a couple hours behind on our main field - which meant our broadcast did not start on time. Bradley and I couldn't stick it out though and left around 12:15 as he had games on Sunday. Sunday morning, TR headed back to the office for the broadcast of the final day of games and wouldn't you know the IF game was needed!

Bradley and I headed to Oviedo for a doubleheader. I had let him sleep as long as possible so he was raring to go! The Braves started strong, playing good defense and hitting the ball - winning their first game 12-3. Bradley was 1-3 with a double. Both outs were line drives right to the first baseman. He took the mound to start the second game, throwing 2 innings, 25 total pitches, one strikeout and had one run score due to an error by our rightfielder. At the end of two, the Braves had a commanding 10-1 lead so we were able to move some people around and give some other kids the opportunity to pitch. The final score of the second game was 16-5. Bradley was 2-2 this game with a walk, single and a double. It was nice to be back at the field after a little break. The boys did a great job and should be in good form for their state tourney next weekend.