Well, it is now the beginning of my favorite time of the year....Baseball and now Softball season! Picking a Spring Sport for Shelby was quite a challegne and one we thought that she had overcome just in time for the High School Spring Sports Meeting she had decided to run track so the uniform was ordered and spirit gear and on the last Monday in February she was off to track practice! After the first practice, we had on our hands one very upset girl, although I continued to try and talk up track and how it would get better she didn't think so....so the next day at school she spoke to both the track coach and the softball coach! She was able to still go out for SOFTBALL with a chance for a fair try-out! Now I believe that she is very, happy with her decision and maybe has learned a lesson from this but one will ever know! She started her season playing the first game on Friday for the Freshman team, she pitched and had 2 hits and the only 2 runs. Then on Saturday, she played her first game with JV and the Freshman team needed her to pitch again. We are short a few pitchers! Next week is the start of regular season and we think she will be playing most of the time with the JV team! Although we would have supported her no matter what, WE are so happy with her decision to play Softball as we all love the sport!
Saturday was Opening Day for the Middleton Vikings Varsity Baseball team with a double header at Endicott Field! We kicked it off with a team dinner on Friday night at our house and I think a good time was had by all. I do know that nobody left hungry. We had a lot of food (Alfredo, salad and garlic bread) for 15 growing boys! The first game started at 11am against Kuna, Cody was the starting pitcher and each pitcher only pitched two or three innings, our early score was 1-3 then 2-4 then we took the lead 5-4 and the win. Next game was at 5pm or so, following an extra inning Kuna/New Plymouth game, this time we played New Plymouth and started 0-1 then 1-5 then ended the game again in the lead 8-6 after 5 innings called for darkness. Off to a great start!
This next week will be our test week, with Shelby having games Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday and Cody playing on Thursday and Friday! I guess we will be home on Monday :)
