Summers Over

Well now that summer is officially over it's time to give up on the softball season completely and begin to focus on football. Being football season is the reason why my post have pretty much disappeared. Out of the big three sports football is probably my least favorite to watch or follow. I am currently counting down the days until the high school basketball season starts, which is my favorite time of the year. Once high school basketball season starts I will probably have a post almost every day. Right now during the football season I will probably be lucky if I post once a week.

The Packers are currently 2-1 with their new quarterback Aaron Rodgers which I love because I was never a big Brett Farve fan. I just couldn't stand that everyone treated him like a god. The Badgers are 3-0 which isn't a huge surprise because they always play a relatively weak non-conference schedule. They did go out to Fresno State which didn't turn out to be the game that everyone had predicted. The final team I follow closely is the Wisconsin Dells football team. A bit of a surprise to me that their 4-0 but, that may just be because I don't typically follow them very closely, and this may of been expected. I went to the last game and they beat Milwaukee Bradley Tech 35-19 after being down 13-0 in the first quarter. In that game Dells really showed some great athleticism to keep up and beat up on the Milwaukee players which were supposedly more athletic and quicker.

In the final softball tournament of the season we took the majority of our Mt Olympus Dells league team and few other guys mixed in up to Cataract just north of Sparta. This tournament was a good tournament for us because it was a lower level tournament for us to be able to get out feet wet in the tournament experience. Game one we got Crow Bar one of the few teams there that were a regular tournament team. We played even for most of the game and were up 7-5 going into the 7th inning. Crow Bar ended up scoring five runs in the 7th to go up 10-7. We were able to come back and score two runs in the bottom of the 7th but, fell just short as the game ended 10-9 with two runners on base.

Game two we had only nine players but, luckily got matched up with a lower team in Lessons. We were able to jump out early and cruise to a 15-5 win. We ended up losing our center fielder to a pulled hamstring. The final game of the tournament for us we ended up losing to Market Bar 13-10 which had about five guys from Multistack. This game was about us not having timely hitting. Three separate times we had bases loaded and couldn't score anyone. Two of those times with no outs. First time we had bases loaded we had one out and our three hitter, my brother up to bat and he hit a grounder to the short stop. The went for the double play but, didn't get my brother at first but, our guy on third decided not to run and was thrown out at home when he finally did decide to run. The second time we had bases loaded we had our 2,3, 4 hitters up and no outs. A pop out to first, pop out to short, and then a grounder to second ended that rally. The final time we had bases loaded and no outs our 8,9,10 batters were up. Two pop outs to the pitcher and a ground out to short ended that one.

Next year we are hoping to get our own tournament team but, it is yet known if we will or not. It really depends on a few things. Do we want to break ties with our current tournament team Harmony, will the Dells get into the Sunday league for baseball causing us to lose half our team, can we get a sponsor, will Mt Olympus sponsor us or will we be self sponsored, and the final thing and biggest is can we consistently put together a solid team week in and week out. If we can't get a sponsor you might be seeing Young Guns at a few tournaments next year.