Oh how good it feels!!!

Ok dirty minds, I'm talking about softball! Makenna had a 7 game guarantee tournament this past weekend. The first game was AWFUL! They played like doodie. After a little "discussion" with my child, she played like she actually knows how to play from then on. Sat they played 4 games, and lost them all. To say that it was frustrating watching them making mistake after mistake is an understatement. Come on, this is a TRAVEL TEAM and some girls either won't or can't catch a fly ball, or they let them roll between their legs, and EVEN jump over balls!!!! Now, my child is not without errors that's for sure, but she an one other girl made 7 out of the 11 runs scored on Sat. Sunday was better, they were winning the first game and then they fell apart and ended up going into international tie breaker and lost 8-9. Well, as you can imagine the coaches were a bit miffed at what was going on and let the girls have it! My thought was, it's about time! This is a team that is in 1st place in their regular season, only losing one game. Yet, when it comes to tournaments they (not all) look like a bunch of t-ball players! So, here they are 5 games in the hole and we are playing the team who has been our nemesis since Makenna has been playing travel ball. GREAT, the team she was on that was unstoppable could not beat them and now we are up against them and these girls have not won a game yet?! Well, I don't know which team showed up, but it wasn't the ones who just lost 5 games in a row!!! Kenna played short stop and DOMINATED the field!! It was like watching her back in 8U when all the balls came to her. In 10U she doesn't get a lot of action because most girls can't pull the ball like they could in 8U. She must have made 75% of the outs, it was GREAT!!!!!!! She said it felt so good getting all that action out there again. They ended up beating the Chill by one in 5 innings!!!! WOOHOO!!!! It was worth all the money spent just to have beat them. At the end of the game the other coach came over and asked if we used to be the Hot Shots (Makenna's old team)!! Oh how great is that!!! Kenna's bat died and she had to start using another, which she hit the mess out of the ball with. Among the numerous singles she hit, she hit a triple and a home run, to which I owe her $20 for! Now, I can argue that the home run was really an actual triple but, she was watching the play and when they over threw the pitcher she took off and made it home. Ummmm, no one sent her, she said she saw her chance and took it. I say she saw $$$$ signs and wanted it!!! LOL!! Either way, she played 6 great games and beat the team she has always been afraid to play!!! It doesn't get any better than that!!!