Zach had a wooden bat tournament in Sioux Falls this past weekend. Instead of staying the whole weekend in Sioux Falls, we thought we would just drive back and forth each day. It is only a little over an hour away... and Mom was coming to Sioux City for the weekend and we wanted to be able to spend some time with her, too! As it turns out, Zach's first game was on Friday night at 8pm. The team rode a school bus up there and the bus driver took a route that took longer than the coach thought it would to get to the ballpark. They barely had time to get their uniforms on before the start of the game, let alone warm up on the field and do a little hitting with the wooden bats that they aren't used to using... East ended up losing the game to an Omaha team (Papillion-LaVista) that night and we got back to Sioux City around midnight. The next game was scheduled for 2:30 pm on Saturday afternoon... this time the bus left with plenty of time to get to the ballpark!! We headed up around noon after taking Brianna over to my sister's house to see Grandma for about an hour. East did a great job, winning this game against a Sioux Falls team (Brandon Valley). Their next game was at 7pm that night. Since there was three hours to kill before the next game, the East coach took the players to CiCi's... a pizza/salad bar buffet. We decided to take Brianna to the Falls Park located north of the downtown area of Sioux Falls. (I will post about that in my next post!) Upon returning to the ballpark, East played another awesome game and won against Sioux Falls East! We found out that the next game was going to be on Sunday at 1pm... so we headed back to Sioux City and got home about 11pm. I called my sister because we had been trying to figure out way to get us all together to celebrate Mom's birthday and have cake... we decided to do a breakfast thing, since we had to head back up to Sioux Falls for Zach's 1pm game that afternoon!!
Everyone in our house got up early to go over to my sister's house for my mom's "birthday party"/breakfast!! I ran to Casey's and got a breakfast pizza to go with the cake we were having for breakfast!! It was really nice, because even Zach got to spend about an hour helping Mom celebrate her birthday before he had to run and catch the bus back up to Sioux Falls. CJ, Brianna and I stayed a little longer, since we didn't need to get there til the start of the game. Sioux City East played Mitchell, SD for the final game and WON!!!! I believe they ended up in 5th place out of 16 teams from the tri-state area... Great job, Black Raiders!!!... Happy Birthday, Mom!!... and Happy Father's Day, CJ and all the other fathers out there!!!
Zach up to bat during the final game of the tournament:
Zach throwing a pitch during the final game:
No comments:
Post a Comment