The Results

I can''t believe it's been a week and I have left you all hanging on how we did in the championship softball game. We won. We are the Division 3B Bellingham softball champions! (There are 4 divisions, each with an A & B...) Yes! I have been trying to look in the paper for the publishing of the results, but I guess it's not that important to other people.

The game was incredible, though! We were down 9-2 at one point and we slowly brought it back and kept hitting and scoring and finally it was the bottom of the seventh inning, we were home team and up to bat and the bases were loaded and we were tied. Two outs, I get up to bat with the bases loaded and... I fly out to right field trying to poke it the other way. So I choked. Anyway, we go to extra innings and the rules state that the teams start with a man on second with nobody out. They want to speed up the game by then, I guess. So - the other team scores that one run, but can't get anymore, so we are down by one run; we need two to win. I start out on second and our lead off hitter was up. He can jack it when he wants to - and he is super fast. Well, he it a shot out to right center field all the way to the fence. I didn't know if it would be caught, so I had to wait up and tag up to get to third. The outfielder did not get to it in time and missed the ball. I rounded third and scored, tying the game. Usually in softball that shot would have been a triple for our lead off hitter, but remember he is super fast. He rounded third and was approaching the plate just as the ball got to the pitcher covering home plate. The pitcher bobbled the ball, the runner slid into home, and we won the game.

It was the best win all season!