Time Marches On

We are back on the road again! We had planned to leave on a 10 day trip through Southern Utah and Colorado on Saturday May 4^th on our way to being in St George on May 16^th to watch the 3A state high school softball tournament. 

 Jeff called on Wednesday to say it was the final home softball game on Friday and they were honoring the five graduating seniors.  We hustled up and got ready and left a day early and were thrilled to watch Lindsay and her team beat rival Grantsville 11-0 in 5 innings.  Lindsay got up in the bottom of the 5^th inning and there were two runners on base with the score 9-0.  She smacked the first pitch for a walk-off triple to make the score 11-0 and the 10 run rule makes that a WIN!!!  Very exciting!!  We were glad to be there to see that.

After the game they had a nice tribute to the 5 seniors with their parents on the field

 

and a funny dance they all choreographed together. 

 We have watched these girls play together since they were just little and now they are all going on to play softball on scholarship at one college or another  and all graduating with honors from high school.  That is pretty impressive!  Lindsay was honored this week on the 3A all-state academic softball team.  The plaque will be presented at the state tournament final game.  The letter said to plan on wearing a dress to receive your award but Lindsay said “heck no I will be wearing my uniform – we will still be playing!”  Hopefully this is TRUE!

Steve took some senior pictures of Lindsay and some of her friends a few weeks ago and this one is so cute Grandma just had to add it also.

Lindsay will be playing next fall at Northwestern Nebraska Community College in Scottsbluff Nebraska.  This is 8 hours east of Stansbury Park on I-80 just over the eastern border of Wyoming.  It seems impossible she could be that old already – I remember taking Jeff to Snow College to play baseball and it  wasn’t  that long ago (really!)

 Alyssa is a freshman and she starts on the JV team so we got to watch her play after the ceremonies for the seniors were over.  Her first at bat she hit a solid single past the shortstop so she is doing great also.  Both girls get to play one year of high school softball on the same team.

 

Then we headed into SLC and parked our 5^th wheeler at the KOA on No Temple and went to see my Dadd and Kym.  My Dadd will have his 87^th birthday toward the end of the month but he will be in California so we took him out for some ice cream and chocolates at the little shop around the corner from his house to celebrate a little early.  Sorry I neglected to have Steve take a picture of him during our little visit so I do not have one to add here.  He is doing well and we are lucky to have him living where we can see him at least semi regularly.

NEWS UPDATE: Stansbury Softball won their Region outright because they allowed less runs than Bear River who they were tied with for 1^st place.  They had both lost to each other by 3 runs but won all their other region games.  The first place position allows Stansbury to play at home this Saturday morning against the 4^th place team from the Southern region (Hurricane) for seeding for the tournament in St. George!  Everybody keep your fingers crossed for a WIN Saturday!

A final couple of pictures of Stansbury Softball's BIGGEST FANS!