Tales from the WC five-pitch league
I brought Blog readers an update last year, so I thought I would note that the West Carleton Minor Softball league is back at it for another year and participation continues to be good across the area. We even have a Bantam Boys team crossing over with the Stittsville / Osgoode league which is great.
Nine teams are registered again at the Atom 5-pitch level (6 to 8 year olds), with about 90 kids from Fitzroy Harbour, Kinburn, Carp and Dunrobin participating.
Good old Fitzroy Team #1 with Fitzroy Fastball Jr is pretty much intact from last year - amazing to see the improvement and watch them making plays, getting outs, knowing where to throw the ball and so on.
In our game Monday night against Kinburn, our opponents had runners on first and second. Line drive to second base, the 8 year old playing the 2-bag (not Junior) makes the catch, then steps on second, and makes the throw to first (which was offline). A double play (and nearly triple play) in a league where one or two outs PER INNING is the norm was pretty spectacular. The bad news is unfortunately that this particular kid is also good at soccer and spends most of his time playing that game. BOOOO....here's hoping I can convert him to fastball fulltime.
The Monday game also featured the debut of the T-Ball Caveman at the five pitch level. My youngest is only four, but we were short due to the long weekend so he was pressed into service in "the show". Now the Caveman is named thusly for his short fuse and tendency to smash things when he is mad (takes after Mrs. Fitzroy Fastball if you must know).
Things were going reasonably well until the bottom of the third and final inning. This level has a 'last batter' rule where the play is at the plate for the final out of the inning and all players on base keep running until that time. Well, the Caveman had reached first base with a nice little hit (though it took six pitches, they had pity on the little fella) when the last batter came to the plate - which was the aforementioned athlete that made the double play earlier in the game.
Let's just say that Caveman does take after his dad in one respect - lack of speed on the basepaths. And the soccer star can sprint. Disaster struck when the soccer kid began catching up the Caveman. When the helmet, which was a bit large, went down over Caveman's eyes, he got a bit disoriented and stopped dead just past second base. Soccer boy was going full tilt by this time, tried to pull up but couldn't and ended up wiping out the Caveman. This is why a responsible coach wouldn't have a 4 year old and an 8 year old playing on the same team.
Anyway, the Caveman WAS NOT pleased with the situation and continued yelling and screaming throughout "hip hip hooray", the handshake, and was still mad when the freezies came out. Let's just say lesson learned, and I'm glad he doesn't know any swear words yet!
Nine teams are registered again at the Atom 5-pitch level (6 to 8 year olds), with about 90 kids from Fitzroy Harbour, Kinburn, Carp and Dunrobin participating.
Good old Fitzroy Team #1 with Fitzroy Fastball Jr is pretty much intact from last year - amazing to see the improvement and watch them making plays, getting outs, knowing where to throw the ball and so on.
In our game Monday night against Kinburn, our opponents had runners on first and second. Line drive to second base, the 8 year old playing the 2-bag (not Junior) makes the catch, then steps on second, and makes the throw to first (which was offline). A double play (and nearly triple play) in a league where one or two outs PER INNING is the norm was pretty spectacular. The bad news is unfortunately that this particular kid is also good at soccer and spends most of his time playing that game. BOOOO....here's hoping I can convert him to fastball fulltime.
The Monday game also featured the debut of the T-Ball Caveman at the five pitch level. My youngest is only four, but we were short due to the long weekend so he was pressed into service in "the show". Now the Caveman is named thusly for his short fuse and tendency to smash things when he is mad (takes after Mrs. Fitzroy Fastball if you must know).
Things were going reasonably well until the bottom of the third and final inning. This level has a 'last batter' rule where the play is at the plate for the final out of the inning and all players on base keep running until that time. Well, the Caveman had reached first base with a nice little hit (though it took six pitches, they had pity on the little fella) when the last batter came to the plate - which was the aforementioned athlete that made the double play earlier in the game.
Let's just say that Caveman does take after his dad in one respect - lack of speed on the basepaths. And the soccer star can sprint. Disaster struck when the soccer kid began catching up the Caveman. When the helmet, which was a bit large, went down over Caveman's eyes, he got a bit disoriented and stopped dead just past second base. Soccer boy was going full tilt by this time, tried to pull up but couldn't and ended up wiping out the Caveman. This is why a responsible coach wouldn't have a 4 year old and an 8 year old playing on the same team.
Anyway, the Caveman WAS NOT pleased with the situation and continued yelling and screaming throughout "hip hip hooray", the handshake, and was still mad when the freezies came out. Let's just say lesson learned, and I'm glad he doesn't know any swear words yet!
posted by fitzroyfastball | 5/21/2009 10:06:00 pm
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