World Tournament

Anna Kate's tournament team played in the 10-Under Slowpitch Softball World Tournament this past weekend in Tupelo, MS.

Here they are doing a team cheer before the game started.

They played one game Friday morning. Anna Kate played second base for this game and did a great job catching everything that came near her and making the outs.

She batted great too. Her team won 20-0. The rest of the pool play games got rained out Friday after a couple of long rain delays.

We started back Saturday morning with double elimination play. They unfortuately lost the first game of the day, which, of course, sent them straight to the losers' bracket. This is a tough place to be. However, they won their next game against a Louisiana team. The girls played so good and were so proud of themselves that after the game they all had their hair painted pink and other fun colors!

They also won their next game against rivals Caledonia. Anna Kate pitched the entire day and a did a great job. We were super proud of her, but our proudest moment was her last bat in the Caledonia game. We were home team. We went into the bottom of the 7th inning behind 7-4. Obviously with it being the 7th inning, we had to either tie it up to go into extra innings or go ahead to win. The bottom of our batting line up did a great job getting on base and getting two of the runs back to make it 7-6. Then we were back to the top of our batting line up. Our lead off batter walked, which gave us a runner on first and second with two outs. Anna Kate, our #2 batter, was up. She nailed the very first pitch clearly over the right center fielder's head to knock in both of her teammates and to win the ballgame 8-7. Her teammates charged the field and hoisted her on their shoulders to carry her off the field. I wish I had gotten a picture of that, but I was going nuts, so I missed it. I think someone else got the picture, so maybe she will send it to me.

I am sorry to go on and on, but for a softball mom who played all her growing up years and to love the game like I do, that was such a proud moment me. I thought I was going to faint with excitment, and I believe her Daddy would have offered her the moon right then if she had wanted it. But what she got was the game-winning ball. I know this is something she will treasure.

Here is Anna Kate getting another hit in the next game. I wish I knew how many hits she got for the day because her bat was really on fire.

They played their hearts out in four 7-inning ballgames and finished in 5th place. So proud of these girls!

Here's one last picture of them acting goofy.