Take Me Out To The Ball Game!

So, Devin's dreams have come true! He has made it to what he consideres the BIG TIME for his teenage years. He made it onto the baseball team for Snow Canyon Warriors! What a hectic week though...

First it started out with Tryouts on Tuesday, February 27th, and Wednesday, February 28th. Then it was the list of who made it onto the team (or so we thought,) on Wednesday night! There were 19 kids listed on the roster for the Freshman/Sophmore team- we thought that was an aweful lot of players, but figuared that the coaches knew what they were doing. Then Devin went Thursday, March 1st to what we thought was his first team practice, to him coming home to tell me that there was one more cut list to go! AHHH! Was I sick to my stomach when he and his friend Mark told me that. I had already made congratulation signs and everything and here it might not happen.
Well at 7:30 that night we all drove Devin and Mark to the High School so that they could look at the list. Kids were standing around and it looked like the list had not been put up yet (from my point of view- since I was sitting in the car,) Then Matt walks to the car and looks really upset and Devin and Mark are still sitting looking at the wall, Matt gets in the car and shakes his head like he is really sad and then gives me this big smile! I really wanted to punch him for playing games with my worry!
I really like the way girls handle things better, they look at a list, they turn to their friends and they jump up and down screaming about how they made such and such a thing, they hug and then they talk about it for hours! Boys, they just look, walk away and then get in the car and smile and then go on their way, no talking about it, (except for who got cut, only 1 kid off the roster- so there are still 18 kids! I feel really bad for that one kid- why didn't they cut him on the first cut, why only one? Well, for that answer we go to the talking heads- who say that they wanted to no discourage those kids who they will need to be on the varsity team the year that Devin is a senior, so they left them on the team- most of the time, if kids get cut, they don't come back the next year .)

I am so excited for Devin- after that first cut I was estatic, but then I was so nervous if they were going to cut down the roster to 11 kids when there are 7 sophomores and 11 freshman, who would they cut first? Of course the freshman- Matt said that he wasn't that nervous, because Devin is a Pitcher and they always need tons of pitchers, and lucky for us there are only 2 sophmore pitchers!

Devin's first game was last Tuesday, they played Canyon View (from Cedar,) and won! By the way, you can follow along on wins etc... on the school baseball page (see http://http://eteamz.active.com/Warriorball1/schedules/index.cfm?season=399619&division=2950970&cat=597821&show=overview&iRowShowOverride=30)
During the middle of the game it started raining and so they had to stop for 20 minutes until it was decent enough to continue play! Devin pitched 3 innings and did awesome, he was so excited to be pitching in the very first game.

The next day they played Dixie and were tied until the 9th inning where Dixie ended up winning by 1 point. :(
It was a good game though, we just left to many kids on base and had a rotten call by the ref (isn't that always the case?)

Devin's next game is this Wednesday coming up. All three of these games are preseason and so they don't count for tourney play but they still are great for the kids moral!

This is what was at the end of the rain before the game resumed.




We thought the win was the pot of Gold!