Alyssa the most AWESOME pitcher!

Alyssa did so great this year!!! Her pitching has come a long way. She started off the season pretty rough. I think one of the first games she hit four batters in a row! " They just need to move out of the way faster" That was her comment afterwards. She pitched a lot of games this year. We only had about 3 girls that could be consisstant. So lots of pitches for her!
Her best game was the last game of the year. We won our first round in the end-of-year tournement against Big Rock. Our next game was against Shabbona.
The girls did so AWESOME! Alyssa pitched great! She had 13 strikouts for that game! Most of the innings were 3 up 3 down too. We lost by one in the last inning. It was a heartbreaker!
Alyssa was pretty upset too. She took it really hard. But it truly was a great game.
The Saturday after that game the coach from the older league called and wanted Alyssa to play on the All-Star team in Grand Ridge. So she got to play up with the older girls. She absoultly loved it! She also pitched for them too. And she did a really good job. She struck out 7 in her first game! They got 4th place in the Grand Ridge tournement.
Little did we know that they were going to play in another tournement the next week in Marsailles. Alyssa again pitched and played outfield. They also got to play under the lights. Some of the games didn't start until 8pm. So it was very late nights and sometimes 3 games on Saturday! So it was a crazy summer and softball is finally over and I can finally take the equipment out of the back of my car and vaccuum it out!

Earlville Softball is finally over!

Yay Softball is over!!!! I can not tell you how crazy this summer has been! Our little softball team did pretty well this year. We only had 10 girls, which was really hard when they had vacations! We pulled some girls up from our younger teams to play. I'm still trying really had to have the new softball field built in Earlville. Its taking FOREVER! This field will be only for the girls! ITS ABOUT TIME!

The girls improved so much from the start of the year. Alyssa did really well too. Her pitching has gotten so much better. And she doesn't look at her mom after every pitch! I had a couple of girls that have never played a sport in their lives! Hopefully this will get them to be more active.

I tried to keep it fun for the girls this year- Learning how to slide with a slip-n-slide (they loved that) making a RACE out of everything- parents throwing water balloon at them at the end of the game-singing CRAZY cheers and running around like maniacs!

We had our end-of year cookout last Friday-I had a photographer take pics of the team so I gave everyone some copies-we had a crazy awards ceremony E.G. Hit the most batters with a pitch (ALYSSA) Best use of the equipment (DELANEY she got hit in the head a lot while batting) Best stop of a grounder by your face (OLIVIA long story)And so on. Then my team and I played a softball game against the parents. That was awesome. When I told them not to let them off 3rd they really didn't. They were jumping on their Dad's and tackling them left and right! It was so much fun and we won of coarse!

My hope is that they had fun this year and that THEY ACTUALLY LEARNED SOMETHING!

It's the best feeling in the world when you overhear one of your players saying to another one exactly what you have been telling them all year! Bring a tear to the eye! I get all choked up! JK! Anyway I HAD FUN and got to act like a big kid. Is that any different from everyday?.........