Hello Everyone,
A busy week of sports for the Brase family. Nick had 2 games this past week. Tuesday, it was the Raptors vs. Thresher Sharks. It was a good game. Nick continued to rip the ball !! But, his shining moments were in the field. He has a good head for the game. At one point there was a runner on first and the ball was hit to Nick, he started to throw to first and then realized he should tag the runner. This kid lays out to tag the runner, but barely misses him ! Next hitter comes up and grounds to Nick who runs and tags second and leaps in the air to try and throw to first for the double play ! Almost ! Next hitter grounds out to Nick again. Then the final out went to Nick again ! He was pretty pumped up !!
Thursday was Nicks next game. Raptors vs. Diamondbacks. Another great game ! Nick had a couple of "wimpy" hits to start before crushing the ball to the fence in right-center ! He played well in the field again ! This was the game that I noticed that the other team had a scorekeeper ! A little hardcore for me ! I did go out and ask the coach why. He said just to keep track of the run limit per inning. Uh, yeah right. Anyway, that's it for Nick's week. On a side note, I noticed Nick's bat was super dented. I thought he was hitting the fence or something. But I then realized that the bat was a tee ball bat and the metal was probably softer that a Little League bat. So, I ended up getting him a new Little League Easton ! The dented bat could very possibly become a thing of legend in later years !!
Ok, now on to Kylie's softball. We traveled out to Palm Springs for another Triple Crown Tournament. This facility was beautiful !! They 3 fields modeled after Wrigley Field, Fenway Park, and Yankee Stadium. Very cool.
Mystic started off against OC Crush. Kylie pitched in this one. She did struggle. It was a very close game with several lead changes. Very exciting. Unfortunately, Mystic's errors cost them and coaching was a problem. Mystic goes down in the opener.
Next game was Mystic vs. OC Frenzy. Frenzy was a small young team. But they could hit ! Again, a couple of lead changes. Came down to the last inning. A ball was hit out to RF and Mystics Right Fielder had the ball come out of her mitt. With a runner on 3rd, that was enough to seal the victory for Frenzy. Now, of course, the fact that we had a Mom literally screaming and crying that her kid was moved from CF to RF didn't help. She was moved 40 ft from where she had played the game before and she was still batting 1st. Get a clue lady.
The last game on Saturday was at 8pm and against Cerritos Franchise. A very good ranked team. It was pretty ugly. Mystic played like they didn't want to be there. Kylie did pitch late in the game and did ok. But, the errors again, killed Mystic. Mystic goes down again. We were 0 - 3 for the day and still got 2nd seed. Ugly.
Well, we headed to the fields Sunday for bracket play, single elimination.
First game was against IV Stealth. Good team. It was a battle. Stealth took the lead early. But, Mystic held on and had the heart to fight back ! Man, it was a nail biter. Kylie played outfield and played great. Mystic played hard and pulled out the win ! Finally ! On to the next round !
Next up was CTS. A very very good team stacked with monster players. I consider myself a "pitching" guy and love to see good pitchers. Well, CTS had the best pitcher I have yet to see ! This "kid" was 6 foot tall !! She threw very hard and had great junk !! She had come down from 14U with half her team to play in this 12U tournament. She was playing up with these other awesome players. Well, the Mystic coach decided to not pitch Kylie. He went with the other pitcher who got shelled. He put Kylie in to pitch with 2 outs down by 7 in the 1st. She immediately got the final out. Very nice. Mystic tried hard to fight back. CTS put another pitcher in to save their Ace. We immediately put 2 runners on and then CTS pulled her and put the beast back in. We ended up hitting and scoring 2 ! The crazy thing is Kylie shut down CTS for the next 3 innings ! We ran out of time and lost 7 - 2. There was a lot of second guessing after that one. It actually wasn't from me either ! Kylie pitched fantastic ! Her performance salvaged the weekend for me ! That very CTS team went to the championship game too. I guess another really cool thing was that Ky's old team was eliminated before us. They actually watched Kylie pitch against CTS. That was cool ! We had quite a few parents from Legacy come and say how happy they were for Kylie. She had a few hugs and hi fives !! Very cool !! Well, that's it for now.
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