Sorry about the Facebook thing, I thought I could tell the story on there but no way there is just too much to say.

Saturday we had two games, which we won!! Super fun all the girls were having a great time and the parents too, it’s fun to win on your own turf!

Sunday we knew we could play as many as three games, the first game was at 8:00 am, and like I said it was a good thing because it turned out to be a super HOT day. We beat Rialto, I have no Idea what the score ended up being, but we won. Perri had a great catch toward the end of the game to get us out of a long inning. I was thrilled for her, it was a great catch and Iloved to see her getting pats on the back from the coaches and her teammates.

 We had a break before our next game so we came home to rest in the AC. The field was only about two blocks from our house so that was real nice, no traveling this weekend.

The second game was the semi-finals  all we had to do was beat the “Temecula Ternminators” to get to the Championship game, boy the French Valley terminators have come a long was from our first three Tournaments of losing every game.

So our team names are the same, that sucks because we don’t want to cheer for the Terminators because that would help the other team. So before the game all the fans decided we would cheer for either French Valley, FV or the names of the girls while they were up. We have quite the cheering section so this decision was needed before the game so everyone was on the same page. You have to be organized….

The game starts and here we go doing our cheers, and we were loud, as we always are. The dug out was loud and the stands were loud. So about 15 min into the game while one of our girls was up one of the grandma’s from the other team comes over to us and says, we don’t like the way your cheering, it’s hurting my grand daughters feelings. WHAT!!?? are you kidding me!! Yes ,this really happened! We were cheering for our girls by thier nick names. The player that was up was LoLa, so we were say LoLa, LoLa, LoLa over and over to get her pumped to hit the ball, apparently the pitcher on the other teams name or last name was Su La, she thought we were taunting her. I should have worn my shirt ” There’s no crying in softball”!  So after it was explained to the grandma that we were not taunting her granddaughter she left, I don’t think she was happy but she walked away. Anyway…we were holding our own, the game was back and forth, they would go up in runs then we would go up. One of the last innings we fell apart a little, our pitchisng had been awesome at keeping the other team off the bases but in the heat it’s just too hard for one little girl so we were moving our girls around and in doing that we gave up a few runs but that was alright because in this tournament with us being the HOME team we got our last ups and we knew if we got up we could score the runs needed to win the game. So I think the score was 9-11 when we got the last out and were able to take to the plate to finish the game hopefully as winners.

So I’m going to skip ahead a little to when Perri got up, the  score was tied, the bases were loaded and we had one out on us. OMG!! and Perri was up, this was pretty much it, she had to hit the ball to knock at least one run in.  So  her count was 2-2 one more strike she goes back to the dug out, but if she could just get on even if its a walk she atleast gets a run in. So the pitch comes in ( even as I write this my hands are shaking)  and she SMACKED the ball with all her might and sent it high in the air, PLEASE DON”T LET THEM CATCH IT! I swear that ball was in the air forever! RUN PERRI, RUN!! the ball finally came down and there were at least three players waiting there to catch it, BUT THEY DIDN”T!!!!! the ball fell between all of them our girls ran around the bases and Perri helped win the game with her one big hit in the last inning of the game to send us to the Championships!  We are so Proud of Perri, she has come a long way in the All Stars and that was her Crowning moment. She had a big catch in the first game and this hit just made our day and hers. It should have made the ESPN Highlight reel for the weekend!

WWHHEEWW….So after all this excitedment, we had to be ready almost imediatly for yet another game. THE CHAMPIONSHIP GAME! It was so hot and the girls just came off a big win so they were tired and hot and needed to rest, but we only had about 1/2 hour before game time.

I have to tell you though, the Temecula Terminators as I said before were sore sore losers! one of the girls walked by our Coaches wife and said “You guys are mean!” she just said back “Good game”. What do you say to something like that. Also, while our girls are in the dug out they do cheers all the teams do it ALL OF THEM! and they are fun and fast and it keeps the girls in the game. One of the cheers is for when one of our girls steals a base , it goes like this. ” She stole on you, she stole on you, while you were curling your hair she was already there, she stole on you, she stole on you, while you were picking your nose she was up on her toes she stole on you, she stole on you!” FUN, innocent, FUN!   WELL, I guess there was a cheer that refers to someones ” bald headed grandma”, I don’t know the whole thing because the girls say them so fast sometimes it’s hard to know what they are saying. Anyway, so our girls were saying this cheer and someone from the other team,(Terminators) came over and said, (these may not be the exact words but you get the idea) UMM, we have a mom or grandma over here that has cancer and her head is bald and she is taking offense to the cheer you are saying. So our team mom stopped the girls from doing the cheer and after the game went over to the other side to appologize for doing the cheer and to make things right. We didn’t know and the cheer wasn’t being said to be mean, it’s just a fun cheer. Anyway the mom that she appologized to wasn’t taking it very well and said that she didn’t appreciate the any of the cheering that the parents were doing and that we just got  lucky. so a few other words were exchanged, some that I wont write on here but you get the idea and can see why I say that the Temecula Terminators were poor sports and sore losers. Ya know we have lost a lot of games and we never acted like that, we took our three loses on Saturdays and partied on Sundays. That’s the kind of team we have. Move on to the next game, don’t let it get you down, just have fun and we do!

So we went into our third a final game of the tournament, tired, hot and just being ok with getting a second place trophy, it’s a trophy and we didn’t care what number it had on it. Our girls were happy!

So in the end the Championship game was played against Murrieta and  due to the fact that we were tired, hot and cooked, we played  in the 100 degree temps got three runs (they got 14) and because they were up so many runs in what ever inning it was they automatcaly won, in a mercy rule ending to a wonderful weekend. The Murrieta team was the Champions and they had great fans and great coaches and were super nice cheering for us when we got our trophies and we did the same for them. Let me just add as a side note…Murrieta only had one game at 9:45 on Sunday then were able to rest until our game at 1:30. Not to say they didn’t deserve the win because they played a good game, I’m just saying we didn’t have our A game going! Our A Game was left somewhere between the second and third game maybe in the restroom or somewhere like that.

SO, now we are waiting to hear sometime today if we are one of the teams that go to the  State Championships, they take two maybe three teams, we would be the third team. It’s in San Diego and the opening cerimonies are at Quallcom Stadium, so even if we go and lose, the girls still got to go and have the experience of it all. I’ll keep you posted on that.

I just have to thank all of our little players for a great  ALL STAR  season.

LoLA,  Nutty, Special K,  Chocolate Thunder, Stuffy, Bear, Hot Wheels, Cookie, Mega Power, Rocket, Jules and of course my favorite little All Star Pistol!!!