All Star Bulletin

Well,  we started out Friday evening , meeting the team at the local Town and Country convenient store@ 4:30 pm.  We pulled out at about 5:00 and headed to Pecos, for an 8:00 pm game.  We pulled into Pecos around 6:30 and stopped at the local Walmart for a little restroom break and shopping!   The Boys began the game slow, but due to some bad calls by the umps in our favor, we pulled ahead to beat Kermit 9-8. WOW! Talk about bad sportsmanship conduct from parents!  I was almost scared to walk to the car - and I didn't dare say good game to anyone from he other team!    After the game the boys celebrated the win with Pizza, which we ate in the Walmart parking lot.  I think we pulled into the driveway around 1:00 am.  Saturday, the boys were in the 4th of July Parade in Alpine.  Our Next game was scheduled for Sunday, but was canceled due to rain.  So Monday we headed back to Pecos for game 2, which was against Pecos.  The boys played hard, hitting the ball the best I've seen so far.  One hit it over the fence for a homerun and Christian hit a triple!  We pulled ahead and then about mid game, the strike zone shrank, giving Pecos  MANY opportunities to pull ahead. With all the bad calls, we couldn't recover.  Pecos won :(  So that put us in the losers bracket which meant we had to come back the next night to play Monahans.  Troy was leaving for Oklahoma City that morning , so I got with another mom driving by herself and we drove in her Tahoe back to Pecos.  Talk about HOT!  I think the temp was 100 or so.  The boys didn't do well at all.  We couldn't hit and our fielding wasn't all that good  either.  So, we lost again putting us out of the tournament.  We Should have won the whole thing, but I think the heat and the long drive got to them.   We came out 3rd, so we are Proud of our Big Bend All~Stars!!!!!!!