Synergy First Tournament

"It's the friends we meet along the way that helps us appreciate the journey."

Those smiles make my heart happy!

Carli played in her first tournament with Synergy this weekend.  We actually played with three pick up players so mostly our aim was to shake the rust off and get the nerves out.  We weren't really expecting to win.  But man we sure came close!  After only getting to play one game on Saturday due to the rain, we played two games on Sunday.  Carli started pitching both Sunday games.  She had awesome first innings with 3 up and 3 down but then had some rough second innings.  After talking to her later, she had convinced herself the larger 4th batters were going to hit line drives back at her and she'd be hit.  I'm not sure how that fear came up all the sudden.  So she was pitching to the outside and ended up walking 5 each game, each 2nd inning.  They lost one game only 2 to 3 and the second game by more.  But her coach, I'm loving how he handles her.  He talked to her, he went out on the mound and calmed her and made her smile.  She is still working on getting to know and trust him too.  So while we didn't win this weekend, we did grow a lot.  This is a journey we've been trying to accomplish for some time and I am hopeful we are finally on the right road.

A bonus was that Carli got to see her friend Ashlyn who she played with her first season on Glory.  It was the first time she had seen her in almost a year.