Busy with softball this week ... won 12-0 against Metcalfe County on Monday, 1-0 against a great Bowling Green team (ranked 14th in the state) on Tuesday ... started our game with Greenwood (ranked 3rd in the state and our perennial nemesis) on Wednesday ... rained out in the first inning ... resumed on Friday evening. We got down 2-0 immediately but tied the game and had runners on second and third and did not score. They got two home runs ... ouch! We fought back in the last inning, got a run and then with the winning run a first ran out of gas ... the end. 35-5, great season but, not back to the state tournament.
As usual this season some poor officiating... The plate umpire was inconsistent and indecisive for both teams. We had a terrible call at second for an out in the middle of the seventh. Who knows how that would have changed the the game. The speed of a great game is just too much for some of the fourth region umpires. I complained about it a month ago and told the assigning umpire that a single call could cost you a big game. Hard to tell if it cost us the game ... but it was a bad call for an out in a crucial time of the game.
Their pitcher stepped outside the 24" lane all night and was never called ... hard to call that when you are having difficulty defining the strike zone!
One of the best things about NOT coaching next year besides having hundreds of hours to do some things I should have done years ago and should do on a regular basis ... is not having to deal with the lack of ability and lack of commitment among the majority of umpires in Region 4. The half dozen or so umpires that work hard and get it right in Region 4 ... thank you!
Greenwood ... it is so easy not to like them and their fans ... they are burbacious (suburb dwellers thinking their better than the rural folk).
Our girls played well and never gave up on the game ... one of their best efforts of the year. In the end, we had great difficulty replacing the offensive/experience we lost by graduation last year.
Working on bees today and washing down the back porch after it warms up. Time to get ready for John and Claire's wedding.
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