Our family has attended 21 baseball games in the past nine days between the NCAA College World Series in Omaha, Kyle's state tournament and Grant's state tournament. Omaha was a great experience - congrats to OSU for making it that far! Kyle enjoyed his season with the A's and had only hits on his last day of playing ball! Grant's team - well, they kicked their rears in gear at the perfect time to play excellent and brought home the State Championship to Stillwater! We are now home and I'm ready to clean my car!
Below are photos from the Red Dirt portion of our adventures. The boys played games over a four-day span, and came back from the loser's bracket to beat the team twice in the finals to win the USSSA Oklahoma 11u State championship!
Sibling support!
Addison, Berklee, Cora, Baylor and Reid.
The Sandlot Crew
Bodey and Kyle
Grant and Chance were able to serve as captain's for the championship game.
You can see this picture is a lot less colorful. During the 2nd inning, a storm started to blow through. By the top of the 3rd, there was wind, dust, thunder and lightning. We waited for a while and finally the umpire called the game and asked us to finish it the following night, on Monday, back in Tulsa (yippee).
This is a photo of one of our FIVE homeruns this tournament!
Championship Game #2, Round #2
I get to brag on this kid a bit. He had the only RBI hit of the night, scoring two runs. Those runs kept us with the lead, ending 9-8. The score was 7-4 at the time of the weather delay.
Running leap to his coach. It was about this time when I started crying!
Gotcha, Coach!
blessed by supportive family!
team dinner. Poor Red Robin!
This day was one of those "remember when...." days for these boys. I cannot begin express the pride I have in the dedication of the boys and parents. This team ended the season 22-22-1. You want to know how much they lost at the beginning of the season compared to the end? They remained focused, followed the lead of Coach Vinny, and showed up determined on the right weekend.
Grant Walker - you are awesome.
this is from Omaha but still cute!
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