Gentlemen,
I am blissfully exhausted at the moment. Twenty-two games in 8 days, 6 different venues, 3 different counties, and about 500 miles of driving. (Zero ejections. Dang it!) What a blast! My favorite picture from the tournament:
I was named UIC for the USSSA 15U consolation bracket championship games - double elimination. I had the plate on the 1st game and was U1 on the "if needed" game (it was). Had two whackers at 1B in the top of the 1st, 3 successful pick-offs by a LHP with a VERY good move, and got to "go out" on a HR off the top of the RCF fence that broke a scoreless tie. Oh, and we had a "turtle delay" in the bottom of the 6th. Seven complete in a buck twenty. Perfect end to a wonderful week.
Next Saturday, about 25-30 of us will be donating out time to umpire a 16" charity softball tournament put on by a bunch of area Fire Departments to help out kids who have been injured in fires:
http://iafflocal4092.org/?zone=/unio...urnament202007
We're going to "wrap" our breast cancer fundraising efforts at the association's annual end of summer golf outing and banquet the following Saturday. Some of the guys are talking about auctioning off the pink shirts to raise additional funds for our fundraiser - if anyone's interested, let me know.
If anyone would still like to help out, just go here:
http://home.comcast.net/~fvbcharity/...GKCharity.html
Thanks again to those of you who have already contributed.
John