Coach Jeff organized a couple of games for the kids to play - one throwing and one fielding game. Carter ended up winning the throwing contest (you had to hit a bucket turned upside down on a tee). They've been doing this drill for half the season and Carter rarely hits the bucket - he hit it on his first try each round!
After those games, we played two innings of parents versus kids. Carter was the leadoff hitter and had one of his best hits of the season. Unfortunately the parent who was playing short stop didn't seem to understand that we were going to let the kids win (duh!) and caught the ball in the air so Carter was out. He was so bummed!!! No one else ever got out.
Rylan helped out in the field some when the parents were batting. Most hits we super soft grounders because everyone was scared of hitting a good one and hurting one of the kids!
After the game it was time to cupcakes! Christopher is one of the head coach's sons (he has twins). Carter and Christopher did speech therapy together last year and are still good friends (along with Rylan and Jack Henry who spent a lot of time together playing games on Ms. Kristin's phone while we waited in the lobby at Crockett).
Next it was trophy time. Coach Jeff did an amazing job of complementing every player after every game before handing out a game ball. I have no idea how her remembered something good each kid did every game while still coaching. Jeff also said a little about each boy before handing them their trophy and I got Carter's on video. As usual, I had to split it into 2 videos because the file is larger than 100 mb ...
Carter was of course super excited for another trophy!
This one is pretty cool too and not generic like all the other sports he's played (his name and team name are actually on it!).
We also gave gifts to all of the coaches (which I organized this season). Since there are four coaches, we got them all these Wahoo pennants and had the kids write their names on them. We also gave our head coach (Jeff) a $100 gift card to Dick's.
Carter should be able to stay on the same team in the spring. I'm not sure how many kids are returning but Coach Jeff and his boys will definitely be there. I'm sure Carter is ready for it to already be spring!
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