Honor Roll

Brennan brought home her report card on Friday. She was very excited to show it to me! For the third time this year, she had all A's and B's. Only one more 9 week period to go, let's see if she can go the entire year! We were so proud of her!

Home Run!

During Brennan's game on Tuesday night, she hit a home run! She was the first batter in the second inning, it was her last pitch, the score was 3-2(we were losing). When she hit the ball, it went over the shortstop's head and rolled all the way to the fence before the outfielders could catch up to it. She rounded the bases so fast, the ball wasn't even close to getting her out before she crossed home plate to tie it up! Unfortunately, they ended up losing 5-4.

Opening Day, March 10, 2007

Saturday was a busy day for Brennan. She had Opening Day ceremonies at Kennworth Park, and a double header to follow. Needless to say, we were at the ballpark for 7 hours!! The ceremony was neat, the high school ROTC presented the flags while the chorus sang the National Anthem and we all said the pledge. Then the board members spoke about how the league grew from 99 girls to 276 girls in one season. That's huge for a leagues that's only been up and running since August. All the girls stood out on the field, by team, during the ceremony to be recognized. To close the cermony, the Cobb County Parks and Rec Director threw out the first pitch. It was actually very moving to see all these girls so committed to the sport.

Afterwards, we stayed at the park to warm up for the first game. The first game was quite a disappointment as a whole, BUT Brennan played great. Most of the girls on her team were very intimidated by the pitcher, because she was older (and bigger). They were not swinging at her pitches, or if they did, it was late. We had a lot of strike outs. Brennan was the ONLY girl to make it safey to first base...the ENTIRE game. And she stole second and third to boot! Unfortunately, the next batter struck out, which was the third out, so Brennan couldn't score! Final score 8-0....OUCH!!

They took the field again, after a ten minute break, and played much better. They started swinging their bats, making nice plays in the field and scoring runs! Brennan is an outfielder, she made a few stops, chased down a couple of balls that went over her head, got an RBI on her hit, and made it home to score another point! In the last inning, coach let her play third base and she tagged a girl out who was trying to steal third. We were so proud! Final score...Bandits WIN 6-2!!

My first blog

Just to get everyone up-to-date with Brennan: she is in 4th grade and has been on honor roll all year so far. We are so proud of the accomplishments she has made this year. She has been a Girl Scout since Kindergarten and loves to be involoved. She sold 260 boxes of cookies this year, which was the third highest in her troup. Brennan has played softball since age 6 and began fast pitch back in the fall of 2005. We just changed parks and she is on a new team, so it has taken a little adjustment to get used to the new girls and coaches. Fortunately she is a very outgoing little girl and has no problem with new people! Opening day is Saturday, March 10. More info to come in the future!