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Friday, March 2, 2012

Softball Tournament

“Its softball today” I screamed at the top of my lungs because this was the Tuesday I had been waiting nervously for. My scream was so loud it woke my Mum up. I jumped out of bed as fast as lightning and began to get changed. It was only around the time 7:30 when I was ready to have an exhilarating day at our softball tournament. We quickly got to the car and took off to school.

Once I had reached school grounds I checked to see where everyone was. Then I looked around the room 20 area and there they were. I was wondering why they had not left yet but then I looked at the time and it was only 7:55. As I was apprehensively waiting for our team to gather in I just talked to my friends to pass the time by. Not knowing I had completely lost track of time I kept chattering until they finally called us in. We quickly got changed and walked down to Tamaki Intermediate.

As we finally reached Tamaki, I had a look to see what the competition was like. Most teams looked very skilled and experienced. So we got ready to train but we had suddenly been informed that it was time for our first game. Our first game was against Parnell Intermediate. I was really nervous when it was my turn to bat. I had never felt so nervous but it did go away when I swung the ball. Joe, Lepa, Cruz and Havea were doing the major shots that went miles away from where we were playing. But in the end our team came out victorious with a score of 6-5.

Straight away we had to rush to our second game which was against St Heller's. I sat this game out with Cruz and Kaiden and we all were cheering on our team. In this game we were thrashing them at first but they did start to come back. Joe was up to bat as the pitcher pitched to him he slamed the ball completely obliterating it up into the clouds. That hit would have been at least 30 metres long. We played hard and strived with our batting and destroyed them with our fielding we won. I was’nt sure about the score but I think people knew that we won.

As we won our matches and lost one game to Ellerslie Intermediate we had found ourselves in the semi finals with the team that won softball last year Churchill Intermediate. We fielded first. They were very clever and patient because they were just taking the walks(which happens when you pitch 4 inaccurate balls). They got around 5 runs until it was our turn to show them what our batting skills were made of. Once it was our turn to bat. 2 people went up and 2 people came back because they had been bowled out. Another person went up and came back because they got bowled out.We then changed to fielding with the score at 5-0 to them. We tried as hard as we could to get them out but they were to good. With the score at 11-0 to them it was our turn to bat. I thought the same result was going to happen but it didn’t. We whacked the ball regaining our confidence and scored many home runs. I hit the ball far as well. But when we had all got bowled out we were pretty happy with the result. The first score was 11-0, then it was 11-9 . Even though we lost we had a pretty good score.

It was a fun day but in the end we came fourth. That was so exciting playing and I hope to do it again sometime maybe when I am in college. Hopefully we can get results like that or better in league and rugby and soccer and all that.

1 comment:

  1. Heey Matty,

    That was that was one the best days this year so far. Even though we didn't win I reckon that we had a mean time smashing the ball over and over again, Next time write with abit more punctuation
    Have a great day
    Cruz :)

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