We had our kickball tournament this weekend. It's a fun weekend, but the close of our season so it's a little bittersweet. We are an ok team. We aren't the best but we're not the worst either. So the tournament is fun, but always a challenge. This season we finished right in the middle again, with a 7-7-0 record. Our record originally gave us a "bye" into Sunday's games but we traded slots with another team who would have had to forfeit all games on Saturday. So we had a tough road ahead of us. We'd have to win two games on Saturday just to get to Sunday and win another few games on Sunday to win it all.
Saturday's games were good games. We played the first game at 12:45 and while it started off slow for us (we were losing 9-2) we came back on strong and won the game 20-16. So we were off to game two at 2:00. This was a much harder game. We were neck and neck the WHOLE game. In the regular season, the games go to 7 innings. In the tournament the games go to 8 innings and it can't end in a tie. Our game went into 12 innings! It was tied 5-5 for the longest time. In the top of the 12th, the other team scored 3 runs, so we were about done. But we rallied and came back and scored 4 runs in the bottom of the 12th to win! Yay! So we made it to Sunday.
Saturday ended with us all watching the All-Star games. Our All-Stars this season were Michelle Caravelli and Adam Ketterer. They represented our team well. Adam scored a home run in both all-star games. (Actually he hit a home run in each of the 4 games we played on Saturday and at least one on Sunday...maybe two!) And Michelle got on base almost every time (if not every time)! They did awesome!
After the all-star games, we went to Angela's for a team BBQ. It was fun. Filled with BBQ, beer and of course, smiley faced cupcakes.
Sunday was a test. Our first game was against the #2 seeded team in the tournament. And the winner of our division. We had played this team earlier in the season and lost to them 14-1. So it was going to be tough. But we battled it out and won that game too! It was AWESOME! We were all so excited. We hadn't make it to Sunday's part of the tournament, let alone win a game on Sunday, in years! We were all so pumped up.
But the second game proved to be too much for us and we lost 14-6. But that's ok. We had a great time at the tournament and a truly great season.
And a quick note, Dominick came to all the games this weekend (my mom watched him and Cecilia while we played) and he did so GREAT! He was happy almost the whole time. Cecilia and Dom are our newest fans!
I'm a little excited to have Sunday's back again, but I'm already sad that on Sunday there will be no kickball. Oh well, there's always next year!
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