Fall Baseball

Today, was the season end bowling party for Lance's Mustang, travel ball team.  It worked out nicely that the best friends of our other three children lived less than a mile away so we dropped them off and were able to just hang out and talk with the other adults.

This season Lance received the "Sportsmanship of the Season Award" for....

"Lance battled through illness this season, yet continued to catch behind the plate in very hot, humid, uncomfortable conditions.  Lance never complained and continued to support the Mustangs through the season"

Lance played the first tournament of the season too soon after not completely getting over an illness and that threw him into the worst illness of his life for the next three weeks.  Worst of all Coach Keith injured his back, so the two tournaments Lance couldn't play, Chris had to go and be head coach anyway.  It was a rough month physically and mentally for our family.  I remember Lance saying "I'm glad Anthony got to play on the old Durham Bulls stadium".  Such a good sport but I could see it was a big loss for him none the less (Anthony was his friend who filled in as guest catcher during his illness).  Lance did get to finish out the last three tournaments of the season, which included a huge come from behind third place finish in the Rocky Mount World Series, beating the number one seed (where Lance caught the fall tip for the win).  It's Coach Keith's intent to keep this team together through high school and get all the kids scholarships to college.  That's a high order but we're game to give it a try.

This fall Titus aged up to Kid Pitch baseball; from modified coach pitch.  He now plays on a bigger field and the other players, not the coaches, are pitching.  His first coach in West Raleigh picked him up again for this season with the Padres.  He played a lot of Right Field and made a couple really great plays, getting kids out in the infield.  The Mighty Titus has quite an arm.