Softball Tournament

Softball Tournament

“Ugh, my shoes are wet” AJ moaned, as we stomped through the soggy fields. At least it’s not raining I
replied. The morning had a cool breeze but it was muggy. Honestly, it was like breathing in steam while
little puddles soaked into your socks. Thursdays I sighed to myself.

Us Year 7 & 8 girls along with two Year 6’s were competing at an Intermediate Girls only Softball
Tournament. Yes, I know, Year 6’s? It’s because they played softball for a club and we didn’t have enough
senior girls. It was held across the field, at the May Road War Memorial Park by Wesley Intermediate Boys.
The day before the game, most of us prayed that the weather would be sunny but not too hot. It was
cloudy at the tournament but that was good enough.

Miss Paton had yanked out the map that Mr Hadnett had given her and squinted her eyes trying to find
“Diamond 7”. At first I wondered why we were looking for diamonds but then remembered Hayden
saying something about a diamond in training. I remembered it was the Softball version of a field. Then
we all stood in utter annoyance as we finally noticed we were STANDING at diamond 7.  I noticed teams
practising and felt a little bit threatened. We set a large mat down and plopped our belongings on top. We
snatched out a ball and started throwing some passes around. About 15 minutes later the games had begun.
A loud horn blew and we all instantly looked at Miss Paton who was talking to the other team. Suddenly
butterflies entered my stomach.

For each game we did rock paper scissors to see which team would bat and which team would field.
These were the game scores:

CTK (4) versus Ponsonby Intermediate (7)

CTK versus St Joseph’s Onehunga - (Draw)

CTK (6) versus Mt Roskill Intermediate (7)

CTK (1) versus Royal Intermediate (2)

CTK (2) versus Remuera Intermediate (7)

CTK (0) versus Waikowhai Intermediate (8)

CTK (10) versus Pasadena Intermediate (0)

We placed 11th out of 12 but at least we tried. I guess we’re all winners!