After months of promising and planning, I have decided to leave the land of the unposted and strand Lou as the last remaining non-poster.
Welcome to the middle of the spring, affectionately known around our house as softball season. Amanda's team, Blue Springs Lightning Black, just played their 24th and 25th game earlier today and still has two left to play tonight. Tomorrow begins the single elimination tournament where the team could play as many as three more games. As of right now, their record is 20-5 (an .800 winning percentage ain't too bad). Before Nationals are played in Oklahoma this July (where it will be 108 degrees in the shade), the Lightning will probably play in the neighborhood of 70-75 games. To play 70-75 games in the old Khoury League would take you about five years. Amanda even got to play four games on her birthday. Now I know that to some of you, that seems like a lot of softball, but to many of us, that would have been ideal when we were growing up. Check out the team's website for more information. I try to keep it as current as possible with schedules, scores, and pictures.
Right behind Amanda is Lindsey. She is in her first year of machine-pitch ball and is having a blast. She has an intense competitive spirit (she'd fit right in with this group) and is going to be tough to keep off of the softball fields for the next couple of decades. Sorry, no website for the Superstars.
(OK, Lou, it's all on you.)
2 comments:
Hey, Good work, Dave. He's got links all figured already.
Are you gonna post some action shots of the girls playing ball?
There is an album link on the website. It has about 6-7 pictures. It saves me from having to figure out the upload process here.
FYI...the team finished second in the tourney. Ran up against a tough pitcher in the finals. She was throwing pitches that, from only 35 feet, I would have had trouble catching up to. And then to top it off, she had a change-up that made some of our girls look silly. She also beat us on Saturday night in the pool play portion of the tourney. Can't wait to run up against her again.
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