The Last Baseball That I'll Play Until Spring

Wow! It's been a LONG time since I've done any writing. You are probably wondering if I have been kidnapped by aliens. No I haven't, but I have been very busy.

I bet you want to know how my baseball season ended. The last time I wrote we were on our way to the playoffs. Our 1st g ame was against Hopkinton and since they beat us once and we beat them once, it was an even match. We won the close game, 5-4.

On to the championship series...

Our 1st game playing Shrewsbury was a night game under the lights. We lost badly, 11-3. Since the series was a best-of-3, we had a least one more game to play. Our 2nd game against Shrewsbury was a regular game during the afternoon. We won 7-3. So we're on to our 3rd game to determine the champion. After 6 innings, the game was tied so we went to our 1st overtime inning: no score for either of the teams. So we went another extra inning: no runs scored again. Since that was all theextra innings we could play, we ended up being co-champions with Shrewsbury!

Next spring, our team will get a banner on the batting cages that will say "District 8 Co-Champs". On opening day, my dad, the head coach, will get to go out on the field and introduce all the players on our team to everyone who is playing spring baseball. I think I will feel very proud of my team then.

Batting during the final championship game.

Baserunning.

The trophy presentation.

My team:

Front Row (l-r): Matthew Dunderdale, Louis Lyons, Patrick Solomon, Aidan O'Leary, Nolan Kimball, Connor Whitney

Back Row (l-r): Tony Massaglia, Me, Jack Branson, Jack Bayko, Daniel Goldstein, Greg Rosen

Coaches (l-r): Pete Massaglia, Dave Lyons, Larry Branson, Paul Secrist