Champions

Today was the annual stake softball tournament for the Dayton Ohio East Stake and as a result we hauled the family out to the softball diamonds in Fairborn Ohio bright and early at 9am. The tounament was a double elimination tournament. The men's team was a rag tag group that just showed up for a practice the Tuesday before the tournament, but the women had been having regular practices on Tuesday nights for the past couple months.
The women's team played only a couple of games as the rest of the wards in the stake didn't have enough women players to field any teams, so it was the Beavercreek ward versus the rest of the stake. They are pretty good and played really well. Jocie had a lot of fun.
The men's team won it's first game handily and then we also won our second and third games, which we squeaked out in the last inning. As a result we had to wait from 12 to 3:15 to play in the championship game. We got a really nice break and were able to eat some lunch and relax, as you can see that Jocie and Elaina are pretty good at eating lunch and relaxing, although it was nice to have the family there to cheer me and our team on. The last game for the Championship was pretty close. It was back and forth quite a bit but we finally pulled it out and won by 5. It was a really fun day although a bit long. Elaina had a blast playing in the dirt and with her cousins, and Jocie and I had a really good time as well.