Grantline Tourney

I'm hoping to not post every tourney Millie plays in but this was their first one. Last one was just a scrimmage but this past weekend was the real deal. There were teams from Indiana and Kentucky. We lost the first game about 9-0 but honestly, our girls didn't have too many errors, they are just still a bit slow in their decision making process and that will improve with more play and experience in this new league for them. I was happy to see that they still had their spirits up and were not discouraged.

The second game that day was against Indiana Pride, which they played the weekend before in the scrimmage. Indiana Pride beat us in the scrimmage but we beat them in the tourney. Our girls played great and our pitcher was on fire and Millie hardly let a ball get past her at catcher. The girls really got fired up after that win and went into the third game with lots of confidence and energy.

Millie had her first steal at home plate and she slid right in and was safe.

She also caught a pop fly at catcher and made a great out at home plate when the other team tried to score and slide in on her. She blocked it like a champ, took a pretty hard hit but stayed firm and got her out.

Our last game was against Triple Threat, another team from Floyd Knobs, but they are all older than us and have been playing together for 2 years. We ended up beating them as well and the girls were super excited about that. We ended up being seeded #5 out of 9 teams for the playoff the next day and we all thought that was great for our very first tournament.

The bad news was our number one pitcher could not make day 2 and we couldn't quite pull off the win on Sunday. That was ok though. We were all very happy with how the girls played and how they worked as a team.

Millie's rec team is doing great and they are undefeated. Millie fields most every ball playing pitcher and gets them right to first base for the out. She had a home run in last weeks game and really likes the relaxing 8U rec league. We will enjoy it while we can this year because she has to move up to 10U next year. I won't get many photos of that team because I help coach but I though I would mention it.