Baseball Tourament Champs!

This fall Gabe has been playing with a new team and as we get to know them we are having fun watching them move the level of competition up and the quality of play get even tougher.  It's been good for Gabe to see other players who challenge him and remind him he always needs to work hard, because there is always someone else out there who wants it just as bad if not more than him.

A couple of weekends ago, Gabe and his new team the Aces played in a weekend long tournament.  We are new and so I felt kind of out of the loop about how it all worked, or maybe I was just disorganized and didn't get my act together to fully understand how it all worked.

They played two games on Saturday and ended up winning and then they had to play a game on Sunday.  I thought it was it, but it turns out that if they won that one, which they did, that they would make it to the championship game Sunday night.  We went as a family of 7 and most of the families on the team, being that we are new, looked at us like "Why are you here?"  and "Why would you bring that small baby to the field this late?"  I think we may have wondered that too.  But we need to support all the kids and Jennings is getting used to going with the flow.

Gabe played well, he's been playing outfield most of the time these days, I don't know all the ins and outs but I guess it is a good thing because he has the arm to be able to throw it in to the infield quickly and accurately and can throw all the way to home if he needs.  I guess it makes sense.  Where we've really seen him get excited is when it comes to hitting.  He has been hitting lots of long balls and he's oh so close to hitting one out of the park.  They are now playing on fields the size of major league ball parks and during this tournament Gabe had one hit that went 325 feet.  The outfield was 330, he was bummed it didn't go all the way.  But what matters more is that he brought in a few runners and helped their team take the lead.  This in their final game, which was very close and back and forth with the scores a few time, helped bring the Aces to the top and finish with a W.

It was so fun to watch them and Gabe was so excited to get a big shiny, gold ring.  Seriously it is so big!  He is so proud and we are happy for him.

Here are a few photos from the tournament and the celebration afterwards.

Sorry they are so blurry, he wouldn't stop or slow down to let me take his picture.  He was too excited!

So happy for him and hope there are more in his team's future.

Oh and wish me luck in getting those pants white again.  YIKES!

Until next time,

Angie