What started as an office jab of “my team can beat yours”, ended in an exciting t-ball game and much more.
Natacha Phillips of Marianna and Rod Adams of Graceville, work at David H. Melvin Engineering, Inc.
Without an official All-Star team in Marianna or Graceville at the t-ball level, they decided to form teams in each city to play each other, as they both have sons in t-ball.
Game day was set for June 5th, and after a lot of hard work and practices, hopes were high for both teams. Graceville traveled to Marianna and agreed to play under Marianna’s new rules of either three outs per inning or seven runs, whichever occurs first.
The Graceville team, towering over the Marianna boys, crushed the ball in the first inning and they appeared to have Marianna on the ropes. Marianna fought back and managed to get three outs and held Graceville to five runs. The second and third innings were both “slug fests” and both teams scored their seven runs with many exciting close calls and near outs by the players. In the fourth inning, Gavee Watson of Marianna lunged to make a triumphant double play by catching a fly ball and tagging the runner that was streaking to third base, thus holding Graceville to six runs.
Marianna scored seven runs in all four innings to win the game, twenty-eight to twenty-five. Both teams played exceptionally well and portrayed great sportsmanship and great character.
Congratulations to both teams!
Could this be the start of something big for next season?
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment