Weekend

So, I know it's Wednesday and I'm just now writing about my weekend, but you'll get over it. Better late than never! So, last weekend my team I coach had a tournament in Lincoln. Michael and I pulled the camper out there Friday evening and camped all weekend. The weather was beautiful! The tournament started Saturday morning, that game was a little rough. We played a very good team, far more experienced than our girls. Then we went back to the campsite and had a cookout. We had a fairly decent turn out, some of the girls chose to go back to Omaha between games because we had a big gap between. We had two more games on Saturday, the first of those was much like the first of the day, another very good team. But, before our 3rd game of the day we had a talk with the girls and told them we know they are not playing to their potential. I told them they needed to start believing in themselves like we believe in them. The players got together and had a talk with just them (no coaches), so between all that and the fact that it was a team more on our level, the girls came out playing much better! They got really in to the game and made some great hits. Even the last inning the girls started hitting the ball and we had bases loaded but couldn't get in a run. On Sunday they played even better. Two girls had triples and we had our first double play of the season. Unfortunately we lost 4-2, but it was by far our best game of the year so far. They are proving they can make the plays and are gaining confidence. They are all fired up for our games tonight. One of our teams is a team we played last week. The team beat us last week, but the girls know they are a completely different team than they were last week and they are telling me how they think we are going to beat them. This was great to hear! So, I'm looking forward to seeing how we play tonight, should be a fun couple games.