As an avid fan, beat writer, player, and coach of the Greenville Oaks softball team, I find myself for the first time this season at a loss for words. You see...we got beat twice tonight. That pretty much sums it up. The first game was close. The second game was not, so I am not going to get all bogged down in stats or play by play descriptions of both games. I've cried enough already.
Now before you think this article is about to get all sad and negative, I have compiled a short list of positive things I saw out there on the field...
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Ok...sorry...it took me a minute to think of some positive things...
1) Shane Spencer had a nifty juggling catch in game one on a line drive back up the middle that he was able to secure and double off the baserunner at first.
2) Shane Collins had his second triple of the season with a masterful dive into third base.
3) With the play of the game, Tim Kerby was sitting in the stands behind home plate where he caught a foul ball among a sea of screaming wives, children, and dogs. I almost handed him a jersey right then and there.
4) Dave Strickland, Michael Shivers, Levi Carlson, and Shane Spencer had some fancy trick base running in the second game that forced some errors and led to our only 3 runs of that game.
Ok...now some things that made me laugh pretty hard...
1) After that fancy baserunning, Grant Glover yelled at the other team's catcher "That's how we do it at Greenville Oaks." Then he hit a soft liner to the second baseman, and we never scored again the rest of the game. In fact, all they did is score runs after he made that comment.
2) After making that great catch, Tim made an attempt to throw the ball back over the fence, only to come up just shy of making it back into the field of play thus erasing the good feelings we all had about his great catch.
3) The umpire really liked a clean plate.
Now some things that made me shed a bit of a tear...
1) Our entire team is injured and we may be faced with some trips to the DL for some or all of our players.
2) The umpire really liked a clean plate.
3) Dustin Swart was out of town.
4) The Rangers are getting smoked right now as I write this, and Kevin Millwood is on my fantasy team.
5) Apparently we don't play very well after a bye week.
So there you have it. We lost the first game 8-7 in the last inning. We lost the second game 18-3. We are now 3-3 on the season with two games left to play. Tonight was not our night, but tomorrow is a new day.
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