Evan's Baseball Tournament USSSA Summer Slam

This past weekend Evan had another baseball tournament in Canton.  It was his team's first USSSA tournament, competing at the AA level.  There were 8 teams in the bracket and they were very good teams.  His first game was Saturday morning at 9am against a AAA 9U team from the Hit Dogs organization.  We struggled early on with pitching and couldn't stop them.  We lost 22-7.

I was unable to attend his first game since I had to read names at Thurston's graduation at 11am.  Sean also had his last soccer game that my parents took him to in Novi.  They won their last game 8-1 and took a nice team picture together.  My parents took him out to lunch and back home where he hung out until Evan's 2nd game was over.  I went from graduation to picking up lunch from Beirut Bakery and then on to Evan's 2nd game.

His 2nd game was at 12:45pm and it was pretty hot by this point.  The temps were close to 90.  They played the Detroit Bees 10U team.  Although we played a little better, we still lost 12-4.  

We came home and rested from being in the heat.  Evan went over to Kellan's house to swim for a bit and hang out with him.  Sean and I went to Sams Club and Walmart to do some grocery shopping.  And then it was off to bed.

Evan had his third and last game on Sunday at 10:45am.  Thankfully it had cooled off over night and the temperature was much more comfortable.  In fact, it was a beautiful morning for baseball!  They played the Jets Elite 10U team.  Same thing...they played the best they'd played all weekend, but it wasn't enough to stop them and they lost 12-6.  Their team is definitely in a slump right now.  Hopefully they'll be able to gain some confidence at the plate and they'll be able to snap out of it.  We have two more tournaments to go and four more weeks of League games too.

The boys both went over to Kellan's birthday party to swim and we enjoyed the rest of our afternoon, grilling dinner and getting ready for another week of work and school.