Spring is in the air… Well a few softballs anyway.

Boy, it was great to finally get outside last weekend and take the training wheels off the new team so to speak. The weather could not have been better for a mid February day. I really enjoyed the opportunity to play a couple of very good Sidewinder teams. The ’93 team has some great speed that certainly presents challenges for our defense and their ’94s flat-out pitched great. We will have our hands full with those teams this year. Watching some of the other games, I see that Fritz has done some of his magic on his Lake Breeze squad and they seemed much improved since fall. They will surprise a lot of people and beat some very good teams along the way. Moving to LB was a good move for him and the kids.

So Dani picks up with the Gold team, and NATURALLY decides that this is the day to hit her first home run since 10u.. Nice hit kid, but save some of that pop for this team! Just kidding. I got a kick out of Lance’s comments to her afterwards… “Our table setters are supposed to get on base and let the big boppers move them around, leadoff hitters hitting home runs just doesn’t fit that model. Do your job.. “

Sunday we decided to update our team picture, so I took the team to a couple of nice venues in Kirkland for the photo shoot. It was just like America’s Next Top (Softball) Model.. Look for an update on the web soon.

We are going to try to get in a few more games this weekend before shutting down for high school season. Should be fun.

C