Softball tournament

This past weekend in Elgin was Western Days. Its a pretty big deal here in our small town. They hold several tournaments including volleyball, washers, and softball. While chatting with some people at closing baseball ceremonies a few weeks ago, Trevor decided to throw a team together. We were pretty much a "rag tag" team.

Co-ed softball rules include five men, five women on the field, you bat 12, and you can have 14 on the roster.

This was our team. (Minus one, not sure where she was when I took this)

We know most of these folks from baseball,  a few from school and even some new people we met the week before the tournament. The tournament was a two game elimination.

We played the first game at 9am on Saturday. We won! 12-1 in 4 innings. They have a ten run- run rule. We were totally pumped. We did not have high expectations, but winning sure was fun. Several of our players did get banged up a bit. (out of shape old folk)

Our second game was at 3pm. Yep! The freaking hottest part of the day. And it was H-O-T! We lost that game, pretty badly too. Losing is not as much fun.

Our next game was at 6pm. Lose and go home. Win and play at 8pm. After the second game, we actually lost 2 players to injury. They just couldn't continue. We lost this game as well and we were done. I think we were relieved a little, it was hot and 7:00pm. We'd been there since 8:15am.

 After he hit the ball, watching it and running.

 Waiting on 2nd. He did make it home and score.

                           The bracket. You can't see it, but we are the "Beavers", cuz we just don't give a damn!

 We stayed and watched the next game though. The kids were tired and hungry. We went home, showered, ate and headed back for the championship game that started at 10pm. Yep, we are that nuts.

I am so glad we went. It was quite eventful. There is a lot of drama that goes on in Elgin and we saw it first hand. Small town politics. Trust me, it was funny, but a mess as well. Before the game ended, the cops were there. They almost called the game. But after the team won, another game had to be played because it was a double elimination and both teams had one loss. So, it was decided to play a second game. Well, that game never finished. More drama, cops back out onto the field. Game called. We jetted out of there, knew there would be fireworks, but I think the cops controlled it. Kind of comical now.

The softball was amazing though. Both teams were good. We would have been so out of our league. We had fun and Trevor intends to keep playing. I think my softball days are over. I had fun, but I am not cut out for sports. I know my limits and its okay.