State Final Games

Here it is! I am so proud of my son, Isaiah! This was a tough series for them to even keep there heads up in.

Let me back up, and tell you how they came to this spot. My son started out in Summerville Little League. He was a catcher for his team, this year. At the end of the year, the coaches nominate the best players on their team, only one catch. The coaches can only select two players from their team.

The selection is divided into divisions for the league. You have coach pitch, minors, majors, and seniors. Only the top one or two player off of each team in that division are nominated and only 13 are selected. Keep in mind that we had 56 team this year. Isaiah was number one pick for his position, catcher. Four other boys were nominated, but Isaiah was the one that held the position, and was taken to All Stars. The played against another All Star team from Summerville. They have an American and Nationals team. Isaiah was on the American. They played a three game series. First game was against Crowfield. The boys worked hard, played hard and smashed the other team. The final score was 19-0 in the top of the fourth inning. The were so excited excited. The game was called in the fourth inning, due to a 10 run game rule. That way they don't feel worse then they already do. Next game was against the National League Summerville team. That game was tie all the way through till the last inning. This game was so intense. The boys would go to the field and get in position and catch all the balls or strike them out at first base. Then come right back in. The other team would do the same. It was so frustration to those boys. The last up to bat for the other team, dumb errors let them win the game. They brought in runs they shouldn't have gotten. So they took the loss bad.

The boys took it hard, thinking they would not go any further. The next night, the National team from Summerville played Crowfield. They killed them 17-0 top of the 4th inning. That put Summerville back into the lead for State Championship. Now I will be honest. If I would have know how bad they were going to be killed in State I would have never wanted them to go.

The kids that went to state, no from Summerville. Those kids were suppose to be selected from the top kids from each league. However they did not do that, they put all the travel ball kids on the top teams so there was no competition at all for those pour kids. They were slaughtered right out the gate. They couldn't keep up with the kids. These kids were so good that they made NO errors. No over throws, no mistakes.

Our kids were crushed and it was so sad to see them leave the park every night knowing that the next day they were going to do it again. They went through this constant beating 5 games.

However on their bright side, after being verbally abused by the coach. Crushed spirits and heart broken these kids came back to the park the next day and played the game of there lives.

They played a team that was up on them 4-1 in the top of the third inning. I decided a peep talk was in order. I looked at those boys and said " You boys are better then this. Don't let them win, you are not that far down you can get three runs in one inning".

The boys came up to bat, got on base, second boy came to bat, hit it rolled to there short stop and he picked it up, threw the ball and the first base men missed the ball. The boy contiued around to second base and the first boy made it home. Third boy hit and brings in the other two boys and now they are tied. They stayed tied till the sixth inning where they made one mistake and lost the game. However, they worked hard and got back on top. Now they are finished and they did great considering what they went through to come back and loose anyway. So long story short I think I have a pretty great kid. Played hard was verbally abused by his coach and still played for him anyhow.

This is the final picture of the year! Isaiah you are awsome.

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This time in my life!

Well for those of you who know me it has been a busy last 4 months.

It has been baseball, baseball, baseball. I can honestly say that when I sleep I dream baseball. I decided to take on helping run the concession stand. I know you all are thinking what would you do that for. Well let me explain. It has been very hard for the little league to have parents volunteer. If I wouldn't have stepped up then there would have been no one to help bring in the extra money that is required to run the faculty. The concession stand is what pays our lights, umpires, grass care, dirt or the field etc. I think you get the picture. So with all of that, I needed a break. I drove up to Maryland to surprise my husband for fathers day. Boy he was surprised. He couldn't stop telling me that he was glad that we came. I had a great time with as well. We decided to go into D.C. We got to the metro around 4:00, payed for the tickets and headed up to the train. Now lets imagine 10 kids 9 of them that can talk, all looking for the train. It just seems like they really keep you on your toes. You have the boys, leaning over the track to see it coming in. The girls giggling because they are girls. Then you have to tell them not to cross the line. Then you have the little boy and little girl that that doesn't apply to so you have to put the lock down on them to keep them from stepping further then you. It is all a sport to get to D.C.. So we get on the train and there is stop and go at 80 miles and hour. I am having flash backs to the times of living there and it has been a while, to say the least. However, the reality of it is it was just like yesterday. We get about 7 stops in and find out there has been a disaster on the red line. The conductor just keeps saying every 5 minutes that he is not sure but there are trains stopped and we are waiting. In the dark in a tunnel. I think we waited there about an hour. Then the trains started to move. After we were almost to our destination we find out that a couple of the trains have collided on the track and that they have shut the red line down. We are praising the lord that we were not on that train.

The train gets us to Metro Station and we need to switch trains but the little ones bladders are not going to allow for us to get on another train with out relief. So we emerge from the tunnels below the city to find a restroom. We came out about 4 blocks short of the destination we were destined for. We find a McDonald's, walk in head to the bathroom and find that you have to get a token from the counter to even get in. So go to the counter get the token, take all the kids, get out and find that now it is 6:45 and all the museums are going to be closing in 15 minutes. Now we are all disappointed. So we figure lets make the best out of this and we will walk the kids tired. So we headed for the Washington Monument. It is beautiful and the grass is covered in people playing softball, running, kickball, and kite flying. It is amazing that people just go about with these amazing historical monuments behind them. The city is under constuction every where you look and the sky is a mixture of beautiful colors, mixed with stormy skies. The monuments where set in an incredible background.

We walk the kids, over to the Jefferson Monument and then my brother in law say, I know know why we never get all the way there. It was a long walk and only halfway there just decided to take pictures. Then turned and went to the WWII monument. That monument speaks words that can never capture the true essence of what happened. Set between the Washington and Lincoln Monument it is picturesque. The only thing that takes the beauty from me is one of my kids turns to me and says WOW mom that is the same place that is in Night in the Museum. That was a great show mom. OK, now they all start in on how great that movie is and now want to go to the air and space museum. So they know now why they are there.

We decided it was time to go home sun has set and it is dark. Kids are tired and so are moms and dads. We get back on the metro head home and hit the sack. To return to life and be team mom, concession stand coordinator, and BOD person. So back to life.