Sunday, November 20, 2011

SPC Angels

After playing co-ed last season and seeing how good Jordan was at Basketball, we decided to move her to an all-girls team this season.  I think we made the right choice.   She is gaining confidence in her ability and does not have to be worried about getting bounced around by some of the more physical boys.


The Angels have started off a little slow losing our 1st game 13-11.


 Yesterday they lost 10-8 (Jordan scored 4) but it was a hard fought game.   The girls are playing hard and have made improvements in just 1 week.  I'm confident we will see great things out of them in the weeks to come.


Baseball Fall Finale

I think I mentioned this before but Cole has left Rec ball and moved onto a Travel team.   They look like they will be a strong AA team and with the right additions, may be able to a jump to the AAA level by end of the Spring.

The fall season officially came to end for Cole last week.  His team ended up in 5th place in the Fall Finale Tournament.  It was an Open tournament so all levels of teams were playing.   The Jacket's played well in pool play but ran into a AAA/Major team which beat us pretty badly.

On the bright side, Cole got an opportunity to Pitch.   While he loves Catching and playing 2B he did want at least 1 opportunity to try his hand at this level.  I'm proud to report that he did really well.   He faced 4 batters.  the first reached on an error, the next singled and he retired the next 2 on grounders.    He came off the field smiling and that's tough to do when your team losses big.   Overall, it was a big adjustment but the team is starting to gel and Cole is the starting 2B and getting a lot of playing time at Catcher.

He gets 2 weeks off of baseball before the Winter workouts begin.   In the interim, he started basketball so we really don't get much down time.