Baseball playoffs

July 5, 2009

Congratulations to Danny Taylor’s team.  After we tied with them for 2nd place during the regular season, they won the rubber match and are advancing to the playoffs along with the first place team from Moody.  They beat us 2 of 3 times this year and were the better team.  They played well and deserve to go to the playoffs.

On the bright side, Andrew and 2 of his teammates were picked up by the first place Moody team for the playoffs.  This is an outstanding team that I think has a shot at winning state.  It could be a fun ride for the next few weeks.


Summer track update

June 27, 2009

Drew lowered his time in the 800m by about 8 seconds down to 2:49.47 and he did it in 100+ degree heat!  He placed 3rd, but was very close to 1st and 2nd.  I think he can beat them at regionals.


Family vacation photos

June 24, 2009

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We had a great time at the beach.  Here are some photos we took:

Padre Island ‘09


First summer track meet

June 20, 2009

Andrew ran in and won the 10-and-under 800m at the McGregor summer track meet.  He ran a 2:57, which is a pretty good time–especially for his first race of the year AND given the fact that he played a late baseball game the night before. Here is the video:


YES! We beat the other McGregor team to move to 9-3!

June 19, 2009

We won a hard fought, come-from-behind victory over the other McGregor team tonight 12-11.  The team played great.  Unfortunately, about half the opposing kids refused to shake our kids’ hands.  Coach and parents: if you are reading this you need to foster better sportsmanship in your kids.  That’s one of the lessons they need to learn at this age.


Wow! We are 8-3!

June 16, 2009

We had a really good game tonight.  We won 22-1, which brings our record to 8-3 with two games left in the season.  Drew had a good game.  He was 2-3 and really hit the ball well.  I haven’t posted a video in a while, so here are his two hits:


2009 NCAA Track & Field Championships

June 13, 2009

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How cool is this?  We ran into Jeremy Wariner by the pool at our hotel.  We interrupted his dinner of Chick-fil-A to get a picture.  He was super nice.  I’ll post more pics of the meet later, but I just had to get this out on the website.

Here is the photo album.  I’ll be adding more after today’s races:

2009 NCAA Championships Photo Album

Update (6/14/09): I’ve posted all of the photos.  The link above will get you to them.


After 9 games, we are 6-3!

June 10, 2009

We lost last Tuesday, but we won our game last night (6/9/09) 10-3.  That brings our record to 6-3.  We played really well as a team.  We pitched well and hit better than we did in the previous game.   Drew didn’t get a hit–he popped one up to the pitcher and another to second base.  He’s making contact and the hits will start falling.


Wow. We’re 5-2!

May 27, 2009

We moved to 5-2 on the season with last night’s 5-4 win at Bruceville-Eddy.  Drew didn’t have a good game at the plate (0-3), but he played well in the field.  We don’t play again until next Tuesday.


Baseball update: 4 game winning streak

May 23, 2009

We won 9-4 last night against one of the teams from Troy.  We’ve got a 4-2 record now.  Andrew had a nice game.  See a video of his hit below: