We are the CHAMPIONS!

MountaineerTom · June 4, 2002

Well, our boys won the Championship for the 9-10 year old league! Unfortunately, I had to miss the last game of the season, and the tournaments this past Saturday due to being in my brothers wedding. If I remember correctly, our regular season record was 8-3-1 (In our age group, we can end in a tie if the game is tied after the end of the 6th inning, or the end of an inning after an 1 1/2 hours of game play.) We were ranked as the #1 team going into the tournaments. My wife said the were down in the last inning by a few runs, and scored enough to win the first game. In the Championship game, she said the were down by 4 or 5 in the last inning and again knocked in enough runs to win. (My son, J.T., got a triple, a double, a couple singles, and walked a couple times during the first round and Championship games. (She couldn't remember which ones happened in which game. )

Helping with coaching them was a blast. A few of the kids on his team are some of the same ones he's played with the last 4 years. For anyone thinking about coaching in a youth sports program, try it. It's so much fun helping the kids and watching how excited they get. It's priceless.

Anyway, here's the team right after they won the Championship game, waiting on the cerimonies to begin. My son is the one on the far right.

sincityZ71 · June 4, 2002

Congrats on being champions. Sounds like your son did pretty good . I may have to try to get involved with coaching in youth sports one of these days when I have kids, but it will be awhile before that happens.