Monday, August 3, 2009

Last week we were in Dallas for the Texas West State Championship. It was hot and humid, but the kids played awesome. The first game was Sunday against Laredo, we lost. That put us in the losers bracket.
This is the team before that first game. They were getting a prep talk from Coach.
The next game we played Eagle Pass. We beat them. Then next one we played was against University. We beat them. This slotted us to play Laredo again. This was the Championship game. We had to beat them twice to win Sate.

But before we get to the Championship game we need to talk about the little inspiration the boys got before they went. The coaches called the kids down to the lobby dressed in uniform. Nobody knew what was going on. They all get down there and Coach tells us there is a former president that used to live in Midland that now has an office in Dallas that would like the meet the boys from Midland playing to win sate. So the boys loaded up to head out to meet President George W at his office. Not only did they get to see the president, they also got to meet Mathew McConaughey and they also met Mike Leach, the head coach for Texas Tech. It was pretty neat to hear them get so excited to meet these celebrities.

So to make a long story short we win the first game 5-4, we play the second game an hour later. As we start the game we give up 4 runs in the 1st. We had to play catch up the rest of the game. It was looking a little grim, but we tied it in the 5th. We end up playing extra innings and squeak out a win in the 7th, 5-4. We are state Champs. We are so proud of these boys, they play hard all the time. I have never seen a team that has more heart than these boys. They are so much fun to watch and be around. Awesome group of boys!


Tim with the boys! He is a proud dad!
Our cute little family. I love these boys!!!!

1 comments:

Kimble said...

Way to go Anthony. What a great memory you will have to look back on. Awesome!