Thursday, March 8, 2012

Day 4 and our first shutout!

Day 4 of games was another great one. We had 1 o’clock and 5 o’clock games and came out with another W!! WOOHOO!!

First game was a tough battle. We fought till the 7th but the score did not turn out in our favor. The game ended 8-6. Going into the 7th we trailed by 5 runs and managed to push across 3 more in that final inning all with 2 outs. This was one game we never gave up on. Three pitchers, Amanda C. (# 23), Kate (Bres, # 9), and Lauren (# 16) worked extremely hard in this game to keep us in it. After this game we learned that we must push runs across sooner but as Coach Jamie said after the game “it’s better late than never” !! The team MVP award went to Cailin for starting some rallies and keeping the energy up!

After the first game we had a bit of a break and got to rest and fuel up for the second. The lovely parents once again supplied us with tons of fruit, veggies, chewy bars and drinks. We can’t say enough about how much we appreciate all that they are doing! After that we warmed up a bit to get loose for the next game.

Pitching was on fire in the second game. Lauren was killing them with her curve ball and an amazing change that she threw for a strike numerous times. While also managing to make many of the opponents look like fools as they tried to touch it. When they did make some contact our defense was always ready barely letting runners get comfortable on base. The game changer for us during this game was our offense. We were confident and poised at bat which led to hard contact and runs. This time we accomplished one of our goals and strung a bunch of hits together. We came out on top 6-0 getting the first shut out of the season, which is why the MVP went to pitcher Lauren!! Congrats Lauren!!

Tomorrow is our last day down here and we are ready to leave it all out of these fields, always improving and always giving it 100%.

Thanks for reading!

-xoxo SHARKS!! OUU AHH AHH!

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