The weekend started off with Mallory heading to Alexandria to play in a tournament with a travel team out of Rayville, LA called "The Heat". This is the same group she played with last year for part of the year. We had an early game - and Mallory and I headed to Alexandria around 6am. The first game was against St. Mary's - our team handled them easily for the pool game and we won 8-0. Mallory went 0-1 with a walk and a stolen base. Played 2nd and SS in the field and got no action!
The second pool game was against a team called Diamond Dust. Our girls played well - but came up just a little short and lost 6-5. Mallory got a little action on defense - again - went 0-1 with a walk ... and a stolen base (showing off her wheels!)
The first bracket game was against a team called the Louisiana Angels - a nemesis of the Lady Vikings that I coached for the past few years. The play a lot of "small ball" - using bunts and aggressive baserunning to get their runs. My teams in the past were better prepared for this type of team - but this team had some infielders playing in positions they weren't used to - and we committed a bunch of errors (6 to be exact). It's pretty tough to come back when you make that many mistakes. We ended up losing 6-1. Mallory was part of a spectacular double play ... a bunt was fielded by the pitcher - Mal was a little late getting to the bag - and the pitcher threw it high and to the right of the bag. Mal caught the ball while backpeddling over the bag - and fired home at the baserunner trying to score. The throw was dead on - and the runner was tagged out by the catcher. That was the only highlight for our team ... Mal did get on base with a walk - and stole a base ... so identical stat line as the other games. (0-1, BB, SB).
Unfortunately, that ended our portion of the weekend in softball - as the next game was on Sunday afternoon - and Mallory had a scheduled shift at the Tennis Center and couldn't play the next day. The tournament was originally scheduled to be a one day tournament - but turned into a two day tournament at the last minute.
Holden had two games this week - and both happened to be against the Yankees. Monday's game was one of the worst games we have played. Unfortunately - Holden was the starting pitcher. The first inning the Yankees scored 3 runs on Holden - Holden allowed a couple of costly walks in the inning - but only after we made 3 errors in the inning. This seemed to be the story of the day for our team. Holden ended up pitching 2 innings giving up 5 runs - all unearned because of errors. With the game being close - we turned over catching duties to Holden. After the two innings we were tied 5-5. Holden hit a 2 RBI single for his first at bat - with a shot between the LF and CF. The Tigers continued to boot the ball around - and we kept giving the Yankees a chance to win the game. Even though we had 7 errors in the game and numerous baserunning errors and missed signals - the Yankees had 8 - and allowed us to take the win home 10-8. Holden ended up 1-2 - the 2nd at bat was a long fly ball caught by the centerfielder.
The 2nd game of the week was the same result - but a much better performance. Our other catcher came back and caught a couple of innings - allowing Holden to get a break and play a little Shortstop. This time - both teams played sharper on defense with only 1 error by the Tigers and only 2 by the Yankees. The Yankees pitcher kept us on our toes - holding us to just two runs in the first 4 innings - both of those runs brought in by a single by Holden that went up the middle. The Tigers added some more runs in the 5th and stayed out in front for the rest of the night - as they prevailed 7-4. Thankfully - we get a much needed rest - and will get the rest of the week off.
On deck for the Hall household ... PRIDE awards for the best in hospitality in Shreveport Bossier is Thursday - where I have five of my team nominated. Friday night is the Employee Crawfish Boil - so I'll be hanging out at work for the night! Saturday - Mallory is playing with The Heat again - so she will be busy both Saturday and Sunday. Sunday - Holden has a practice and I have an "old-man" baseball scrimmage. Monday - Holden has a game, and Mallory has the Airline Softball Banquet - (Jules had the date wrong - so you'll have to wait until next week to hear what awards Mallory won .... and I can tell you now - there is one I am already proud of - but you all will have to wait until the next blog!) Always busy here in Shreveport/Bossier! Next week might even include pictures from the banquet!
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