The next fun thing!

We finished up the tournament today. We were real happy with how the team did overall. In the single elimination playoff, we won our first two and lost the third. Avi had a good day. He went 5 for 8 with a couple more home runs and caught a great game. Out of 103 teams, we probably will be ranked about 30. The team really came together. We were playing flawless defense and this team had offense like I have never seen. We ended up with 107 hits in 9 games, 28 home runs and a team batting average of .398. We had a kid who hit two grand slams in a row and tied a Cooperstown record. If we had a couple more dominating pitchers, we could have competed against the big boys. And I mean big boys!! The teams who win it over here are huge. It is amazing to me how important it is to some of these teams to win the whole thing in Cooperstown. Teams are put together picking from hundreds of kids. There was one team that had flown pitchers in from Puerto Rico! And all this to win in Cooperstown where the fences are at 200 ft. The crazy thing is that the base paths are 70 ft so 200 ft fences makes for a TINY outfield. The balls are wound tight and you use big barrels so if you are a big kid, you can hit it a long ways. It is not "real" baseball by any stretch of the imagination. But it was a lot of fun on our team, great kids, great coaches and lots of life memories.

We are definitely ready for the next fun thing. We have to find a place to do laundry today and get ready to leave the country tomorrow! Yippee.