Sean Changes Baseball Teams
March 14, 2008
Sean has decided to change baseball teams this upcoming season. He is right on the age limit between what the baseball league terms minor and majors. He could play minors again this season, but it would be with a bunch of younger kids. So, he wants to play majors.
Unfortunately, our small little, rural community isn’t going to have enough kids to field a majors team this year. So instead, he will play majors with the Huachucha City team. He already plays football there since our town doesn’t have enough kids to field its own team either. Except for the distance issue, its a pretty good deal for him too. A bunch of the kids from his football team are also on the baseball team, so he knows a bunch of them.
He reported to the first practice last night and they asked if he could play catcher since their catcher from last year had moved away. Well, what do you know, that happens to be the position he plays. So every one is happy.
Huachucha City is about 20 – 25 minutes away from us so its a bit of a stretch on the coordination of getting him to practices and games, while still getting the girls to dance classes in Sierra Vista. Luckily, it is on the way to Sierra Vista. The games will be even further away for us though. Home games in Huachucha City will be the closest ones. The away games will be another 15 to 30 minutes further. Typically, they play one game during the week and one game on Saturdays. The week games, because of the distance, will be tough for me to make. I only made half of those last year.
Sean is excited and happy to be playing for the Huachucha city team now.
Another Defeat For The Yellowjackets
September 15, 2007
If its fall and Saturday, it must be another day of youth football. The temperatures were a little cooler today, a slight breeze was blowing and some clouds help make it a more tolerable afternoon. Another couple of weeks and we should enter into Fall in full swing. Unfortunately, the opposing team wasn’t as nice as the weather as they handed Sean’s football team another loss, this time by the score of 26 – 0.
The game was actually a bit closer than the score indicates, but the contest was never really in doubt. Sean’s Yellowjackets have a weak offense and don’t score a whole lot. That said, they did move the ball inside the 10 yard line twice, but came away empty handed both times. They turned the ball over 4 times on fumbles. Still, the offense played better than last week and another week of practices will be good for them. Sean played the entire game at left guard on offense.
The defense also played better than last week, but still gave up two really long run plays that hurt them. They were able to force one fumble and make one interception. Sean mixed up on defense playing both middle linebacker and left tackle. He played about 3/4 of the game on defense.
To a kid, the Yellowjackets gave it their all. None of them quit which was very nice to see. Hopefully, they will put it together and be able to win at least one game this year. Next week, we get the annual long drive to Douglas (an hour and fifteen minutes away) for the game.
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