F. U. (Furman University) - and another ball game ...

Wow - I am significantly behind.  Here is a quick update ...

Mal and Uncle Mark in front of the statue at the Furman
Softball complex.

Mallory and Julie headed to Greenville, SC to see her folks - and Mallory attended a softball camp at Furman University.  It was an week long camp and was a chance for her to be seen by the college coaches there.   Mallory had a great week there and they worked hard - each day was long and hard - and ended with inter-camp scrimmages.  Julie said she looked great and played awesome!  Coach Jenkins did tell the campers that Furman does not offer full ride scholarships, but offers partial scholarships - so it is something we will have to consider in the future.  One huge thing that came out of the camp were Mallory's home to first and home to home times (running speed).  Home to first - she was clocked at 2.74 seconds (and to show that it wasn't a fluke time, she ran a 2.77 the time before).  That is a huge improvement over last year when she was running around 3.0 seconds.  She also ran home to home in 12.9 - again a huge improvement over last year.

Mallory came back on Friday - and headed to a camp sponsored by the Rotary club here in Louisiana.  Our neighbor has always thought highly of Mal - and she wanted to nominate her for a spot at this exclusive camp.  She was chosen to go to this camp (called Rotary Youth Leadership Association).  We dropped her off at camp on Sunday - and for the first time ever - we were without Mallory in the house - or able to call her on the phone.  It is a week long camp - and just a hint for the next post - she had a blast!

As for the "old-man" baseball game that Sunday - our team got trounced.  I did not get to start and the game got off to a really bad start and we only got worse.  We fell behind so far, so quick - I told the coach that he should look at another guy in relief - just in case I wouldn't be able to be there for some of the games in the future.  We ended up losing 14-1, I didn't have a very good game either.  Made an error at shortstop, went 0-3 with a strikeout ... but I did turn two double plays.  In any event - another week in the books ... and another post down.  Maybe I can catch up and get you caught up soon!