Play the game you love, and love the game you play!

Softball is like love, first you learn the rules of the game, and then you forget the rules and play from your heart.

Connexions Loyalty Softball Team - 2013
(Missing Kristen Gordon, Joy D'Agostino, Ian McEwan and Mike Meyers)
 

Connexions vs Slugworth - 10 - 4

Connexions vs. Richmond Ford - 0 - 15

This team plays with all heart. First of all I would like to thank the fans for coming out to support the team - Thank you Kate Greene, Shavon Moore and Greg Hoover much appreciation for championing on the players.
Second of all a lot happened in game one. We had Colin our pitcher get hit in his leg but that was before he slide into 3rd base dust flying every where but is he safe ??? YES he is safe!

Nurse Rachel to the rescue.

The pitcher is down!

Nurse Rachel Law flew to the rescue with her first aide kit to patch him up and give him a Hello Kitty band aid to make it all better. Hannah gets a base hit and then Joel is up to bat. Whack! Home Run baby! Joel is off and running and hot on Hannah's heels as he speeds around the bases, come on Hannah he is coming around fast....run Hannah run! They both make it it to home plate safely whew! What a rush!
Great pitching by Colin as we get the Slugworth team out 1-2-3.
I also learned a new slang term last night - Snow cone catch - Term used to describe a catch that barely stays in the tip of the fielder’s glove. The top of the ball sticks out, resembling a snow cone. Yeah, Millard had one of those; it looked like he caught it with his bare hands. Good catch Millard! This game went by pretty fast as we won 10 to 4.

Game 2 - Against Richmond Ford the No.1 team in the league. Everyone on their team is a good player. They just beat a team before us 15 to 4 and they are 14 - 0 in the season. 
But we are not defeated yet nonetheless they are 1st up at bat and they are practically knocking the balls out of the park. I think they took like 9 runs in the 1st inning before we even got up to bat. We have to do some major shifting around in the outfield and we pull Chelsea off of 1st base (Yikes) and replace her with Kristen Gordon but she does a great job at 1st even though she does get knocked down and she just dusts herself off and is back to playing. Hannah is in the outfield ready to catch the next high pop and she does. Not to be out done Joel jumps about 3 feet into the air to catch the next ball and pitches it to Chelsea at 1st base "yer out"! Even though Joy is our catcher she rarely has a chance to catch a ball but last night was her chance and she chased after it and caught it. Way to go Joy! We just could not get ourselves out there; excellent field play, hits by all the girls but they were just a good team.

Message from our coach:
First off I want to say that Richmond Ford is a tournament team and should not be in our league. They are 14-0 on the season and from what I understand the games have not even been close. I know it was a little discouraging last night, but they beat us we did not beat ourselves. We played pretty good in that game and it was pretty cool to see the flip of our infield playing outfield and Kristen at first base. You did great over their even if that guy ran you over for no reason while that team was up by like 20. Anyway I have some ideas on how to combat their game plan if we meet them in the playoffs, and we have to shake things up against them. Again good job staying positive and not letting a team that should not be in our league get the best of your emotions on the field.

Here is the bracket for the double elimination tournament. We are going to at least play 2 games and our game against The Treatment starts at 6:30 on Dorey 1. It could end up being a long night so please plan to be at the field until at least 9pm, and remember to hydrate.  

Thanks

Joel

 

So come on out to the tournament and help cheer on your company team. August 6th.