[Gulf Coast Blue]

When my oldest was 10, we were preparing to go to the ASA State tournament and were playing in a large post season tournament before State.

The weather had turned bad and the girls fields in the complex became unplayable. The remaining few games were played on a converted Pony/Colt baseball field. We made it into the championship game after having an early loss.

Last inning and score tied.......we have a runner on 1st with 2 outs.....Our BIG hitter was up and absolutely crushed one to right-center. R1 is already home and the BR coming into 3rd when it became apparent that the ball rolled UNDER the outfield fence......It was probably 300 feet

The umpires had to get R1 back out of the dugout and place her at 3rd and put the BR back at 2nd.

These 10yo's had a hard time understanding and it deflated them a bit......we wound up losing and coming in 2nd in the tournament. I wound up making a big deal about the hit by our BIG hitter and tried to turn it into a positive.

We did go on to take 5th in State that year though.

Joel

[Edited by Gulf Coast Blue on Feb 17th, 2001 at 09:41 AM]