This is a short post, I am hopefully going to do a better one sometime this week.
So yesterday we had an epic game of kickball. It was all the A-17 vs A-18. That is the current group that is in Armenia that is a year in, and everyone that is new. So we traveled to a local village that had an indoor facility where we could play. The A-17’s were talking smack all day, claiming to be undefeated since they won this game last year against the A-16’s.
Not sure why, but I just walked up and became the coach for the A-18’s. We went through the rules, and the game started. We didn’t do very well the first inning, it was 4-1 to the A-17’s. Over time though, we slowly regaining ground on them, and it was a very good game. Their was a few questionable calls by the ref, who was an A-17. Conveniently might I add. The ref was also the pitcher, kicker, and base coach. Ya, your seeing why they are undefeated. In the last inning we brought it back to 10-9, we were down by one. I was pitching, and got the third out by laying out in the air to catch a pop fly, which felt great when I landed on the gym floor beneath me. Not really. So then we had a great play, confidence was growing, game got tight, we were ready to kick and take the lead….. and perfectly they call the game saying the facility wanted us to go ahead and leave. Which is still questionable if you ask me. And now we are gonna have to wait till November to allvol conference to beat them in basketball. We will let them enjoy the little bit of victory for the time being….
Are 'do overs' allowed in Armenia?
ReplyDeleteIt was 10-8 by the way and I don't forsee us losing at basketball.
ReplyDeleteOur coach was Sue who never pitched or kicked. There was no umpire, the discussions between you and her were just that, discussions. That curve ball I rolled you was 100% intentional and had I pitched the entire game your teammates would have put up much fewer points. We had a lot of girls on our team who hadn't ran since the game last year, but due to the hippie doctrine we instilled we had to let them "play". You are good athlete but that diving catch was for naught since we had the lead going into the bottom of the final inning and didn't need to bat. As for the basketball, bring it. The basketball teams can be hand selected. Ten players only. We will decide on a ref, hopefully Nick Bruno. Regardless, expect a similar outcome to the kickball game, except not as close.
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haha, everyone is still all intense about that huh:)
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