Baseball Sophomore Year

The baseball season has come and gone, and obviously I have gotten super behind on my blogging. Tanner is playing on the Sophomore team this year. He started out the season playing 2nd base and batting second. About halfway through the season he got moved to 1st base and towards the bottom of the batting order.

Tanner has never really played first base before, so one of the first things we had to do was buy a first base mitt. We actually think the move to first might be a really good move for him. He seemed to adjust well and like playing there. He only had one error all year on first. He was involved in several plays and even got quite a few tag outs when the runner was trying to steal and didn't get back quick enough.

He seemed to like his coach and team-mates and so did we. His coach really pushed good attendance and grades and would bench the boys if they have bad grades (Tanner learned that the hard way), or make the team run if there were tardies from any of the boys. He held team night every Thursday and I think team night was great for all of the boys. They did fun activities like bowling and paintball, but also did some service and stuff like that, and overall they came together as teammates.

The team had a pretty good year. They were about 50/50 on the season for wins and losses. Though they had a few losses none of them were ever huge usually just by a point or two. They did have one landslide win where they won the Hurricane team 22-0. It has been a fun season and we have enjoyed the games. We had fun attending as many games as possible together, rain or shine. Bryce was Tanner's number one fan and went to almost every game. For the most part Bryce handled the long games pretty well and was able to keep him self entertained. Every know and then he would have a little bit of an issue-but what can you expect when things happen like other kids stealing your sno cone ;) (Yep that really happened-haha)

The last week they held a Sophomore Team party for the boys and their families. It was at a really cool place called the Roost Reception Area. Each boy received an award. Tanner got the "most talkative award"-go figure.   He has a lot to say at home, but he is still pretty quite around other people. They also gave the coaches each gifts and each boy received a collage of pictures with a nice matte signed by all of their teammates.   I snapped a few pictures of Chloe and Bryce but not of Tanner and his friends, cause I didn't want to embarrass him.

This year I actually got the team picture (posted below). Last year I paid for it but never received it.