WNSL Tournament

Carter's baseball team participated in their first tournament ever last weekend.  Carter still plays in the recreational division of baseball and it's mostly the open division that does tournaments.  This last year (fall and spring) were his first seasons of kid pitch.  In the spring, he settled into playing catcher and caught in every game except for one in which he pitched.

Carter's team entered a local tournament run by WNSL (West Nashville Sports League).  The games were at the Warner Park fields so 30-45 minutes from home depending on traffic.  Most (or all) of the other teams were from open divisions or the all-star team from their league.  So Carter's team was generally going up against kids with more experience and practice time.

There were only 6 teams in the 9 year old division.  That meant there were 2 sets of 3 teams that played each other Thursday through Saturday morning.  Carter's team lost both of their games so that made them 3rd place in their grouping.  They had to play the 2nd place team in the other grouping Saturday afternoon.  They won that game and were to play the 1st place team in their own grouping on Sunday.  Unfortunately Sunday was a washout but because his age group had so few teams, WNSL allowed them to play on Monday.  Carter's team was leading most of the game but when they had to switch pitchers because our guy hit his pitch limit, the other team started hitting and our guys made some fielding errors.  The boys ended up losing that game (which was the semi-finals).

It was still a great experience doing a tournament and seeing how they are run.  And the boys were super close to taking home a trophy which would have been pretty cool.  Maybe next year :)

One of Carter's hits ...

Carter catching ...

Hot but beautiful night for baseball!