summer

                One of the most interesting things I did this summer was probably going to the state championships for baseball. I was part of the Sheffield Venom; I was the only fourteen year old to be playing with sixteen year olds. Before I joined the team they were undefeated and had won the state championship the year before but that was in the 14u league. Now that I joined the team and most the players were 16 they moved up to the 16u league.  I was recruited to play for this team because of my hitting ability, catching skills, and my fielding abilities at first and third base. The practices that we had were going great and we looked like one of the best teams around.  I saw some of the best pitching I have ever seen; curveballs that made 18u players just drop their jaw.  So we go through the season undefeated winning the country championship, the regional championship and now in the game for the state championship. It’s a tie game at the end of the 7^th inning. (In 16u games you only play 7 innings usually.) So there we are at the end of regulation tied 2-2 and we head into extra innings. We scored 2 and they came back at us and scored two points in the bottom of the 7^th inning. We were u [top bat at the top of the 8^th inning and are haled so its 4-4 in the bottom of the 8^th inning. They get 2 men on base one on second the other on third. A bigger kid who has been smashing the ball all night is up to bat with 2 outs. The first pitch is a curveball and the kid hits it over our right fielders head and both runs on base come into score and we lost the game.