Pre-Minor State Tournament

So, this is the first time I have been able to blog about the tournament. All I can say is WOW! These teams are really good! We got to Athens on Thursday and the team participated in the Homerun Derby. One of our players, Colby had the lead for a long time. His hit the fence and then in fell back to the outfield. Finally after about 15 batters someone hit 2 over! Oh well, that is not what we came here for so we were okay. We came to take home state so we turned our minds to the game Friday. We started off the tournament against Thomasville. It was a close game. We had ALOT of errors and cost ourselves that one. We lost 16-13. With one loss, we have to win to stay alive. We moved down to the losers bracket and met with Smith Station. We won that one in a close one 8-7!! By staying alive we played Alexandria later that day. Our bats were cracking and we took an early 7-0 lead. They scored 4 on us but we were able to pull out a 12-4 win! That win kept us going only to meet the home team. Athens, today at 2. Our boys not only beat Athens National but they also beat the umpires. They made the worst calls, even Jason said so and he never agrees with me on bad calls. I don't think we ever took the lead. We were the visitor so they had the last bat. We tied the game in the last inning and held them. Up to bat again and our boys were on fire!! With 2 outs we scored 6 runs to make the score 13-7. They got the last bat and they scored only 3 runs which made the final score 13-10!!! We have made our way back to the winners bracket to meet So. Bibb tomorrow. They are staying at our hotel and they are undefeated! We have made it to the Final 4 but We want to keep going. We still have not played our best game and hopefully tomorrow we will! Cheer us on and hopefully we will bring home state!!