Last week Chloe only had one softball game. The coach of the other team is someone we do not think to highly of (Chloe's all-star coach from last year). It is a long story, but he is part of the reason Landon is coaching this year along with his assistant coach (Swanson) whose daughter was on the all-star team as well. There is also one other girl on Chloe's team who was on the all-star team last year and her parents feel the same way as us and Swanson do. In short-we don't like the guy. So going into this game we were really hoping for the girls to play a great game and show him what they were all about. His team has been creaming most of the competition up until now, but I am happy to say that although they won us it wasn't by much, the final score being 15-11. Chloe caught for two innings and played short stop for the last one. She did amazing at catcher-stopping stuff, running girls back, etc. At short stop she made a great throw (from almost third base right to the glove of the first baseman) everyone in the stands was like whoa when she threw it. (honestly-most of the girls this age just can't make a throw like that). Coach Swanson's daughter also made a great play at first when she caught a hard line drive to get an out. Chloe's really awesome moment came in the bottom of the third inning. We had two outs with runners on 2nd and 3rd. The all-star coach's (Hillyard) daughter was pitching and another of his supposed all star players was on second. Chloe stepped up to the plate and hit a hard ground ball right back up the middle. As it went through the legs of both the pitcher and the 2nd baseman-Chloe's old coach sat on the sideline shaking his head in disgust. While Chloe's teammates cheered on the two runners from second and third as they both made it home to score. Chloe made it safely to first base where we held her up. To say we were just a little bit proud after that hit would be an understatement!!!
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