Who's On First?

After thirteen straight weekends of softball we get this coming weekend off. It'll be nice to do something different. Of course, we're still travelling, heading to "the Shore" for a day of kayaking.

For anyone who just can't live without a dose baseball/softball, here's my favorite tribute to the sport. I still laugh at this.

MD State Champions

The Lightning took home their tenth first place trophy today. They won the USSSA Maryland State tournament for the seventh straight year. Kenzie only helped them win the most recent one, but at least she stepped out of her hitting slump.


On Saturday, against her former team (Bayside Breeze), Kenzie went 3 for 3, including a double and a couple rbi's. In the championship game on Sunday, she got things started with a double in the first inning, scoring the first run of a 12-0 rout. The game ended by slaughter rule after only two and a half innings. We didn't need to bat in the third inning!


The whole team played awesome today; everybody was hitting, and the defense didn't allow a single run to be scored in either game. By my count, the Lightning outscored their opponents 39-4 in four games this weekend.


Here's to the champs!

Baseball's Done

Connor's baseball team had the best record in their leagure for the regular season. They didn't fare quite so well in the end-of-season double elimination tiurnament. After coming back through the loser's bracket after a disappointing preiliminary game, they arrived at the championship game the hard way. They were ahead for the first half of the game; then the rain came. First a drenching that temporarily halted the game. Then, after a short re-start, prolonged lightning and thunder that postponed the continuation of the game until the next day. The guys played hard the first day, and probably would have pulled out the victory. They just couldn't maintain that level of play and entusiasm for a third day in a row.

Coming from the loser's bracket, they had to play several games in a very short period of time, using up too many pitches for our top pitchers. Unlike in softball, Little League baseball has a strict pitch count and pitchers get used up very quickly in a multi-game week. On the bright side, Connor got to pitch in the last game of the year. He did very well, allowing no runs, but leaving a couple guys on base that eventually got home to tie the game up. Connor pitched a lot last year, but he didn't want to do it this year, until his coach had little choice to put him on the mound.

Anyway, they wound up with the second place trophy and that's not bad. Next year, Connor moves up to the next age group, Junior Boys (13-14). It's good to see him excited about baseball again.











Here's Connor pitching, before the rain came.









Here's the rainbow that appeared before the re-start.

Here's Connor and his trophy, another one that can go on the trophy shelf.

Have I Been That Busy?

I feel just terrible. Two weeks ago, the twins had their First Communion. I just noticed the pictures are still on my camera! I am still pressed for time, but I need to at least post some

pictures. Here's Tay and Ty all dressed up, the whole crew, and some presents.