‘Strike three!’ Yelled the umpire, as the last batter on the Little League baseball team struck out. Oh well, I thought. We were used to it by now. Our team had went 0-15 with one tie. I hadn’t had a bad year myself, but you are what your record says you are. Even though my regular season didn’t turn out great, White Oak All-Stars had a bunch o good players. I was ready to win at least one game, but we did much better than that.
Our first game was against Hallsville.It was a little closer than we would have liked, but a win is a win. We were 1-0 so far, anyway. Next on the list was Longview American, who all of us hated. They had knocked us out the last three years. Revenge time. We beat them behind the great pitching by Justin Benson. Unbelievably we won district with a perfect record; 5-0. We made it to state!
My family was going to go on vacation to Schlitterbaun, but so much for those plans. The tournament was held in Paris,Texas,and the hotel we stayed at the Holliday Inn,was fun. We went swimming in a freezing cold pool and hot tub.My friends and I were up late in the lobby watching TV and playing Texas Hold’em. Our first game was against Cooke County, and we beat them. We also beat Sulphur Springs,Center, and Kilgore.So we’re undefeated,right? Well,all that changed when we got beat by Mount Pleasant. A kid on their team named 12-Gage hit a home-run to tie the game and then we lost. So that’s three teams with one loss. They flipped a coin and Mount Pleasant won,so they got a bye to the championship. We have to play Kilgore now and we run ruled them in 4 innings. In the state championship we were down by two runs in the last inning and came back and won! We got our trophies and had Dr.Pepper so we shook them up and sprayed them everywhere! That’s how we won state.
Monthly Archives: September 2011
Basketball
Basketball is fun,
good for everyone,
post-up fade-away,
will always make the crowd go yay,
when you hear the whistle blow,
it means stop not go,
drinking Gatorade tastes so good,
I drank as much as I could,
1 second left drain a three,
basketball is the only sport for me