Memorial Break

Overall my break was pretty good, but if deffinetly went way too fast.

My break didn't start off well, when the baseball team lost to our long-time rivals in Pascack Valley. The final score was 15-6 but the game wasn't as lopsided as the score may suggest. We were the home team since we had the higher seed (we were 12 and they were 13) so they batted first. The first batter of the game hit a homerun on the third pitch (he hit a homerun on the first pitch of their previous game). The next batter was hit by a pitch and the third batter hit a two-run bomb over the center field fence. Before one out was recorded, they had a 3-0 lead and all the momentum. We started chipping away by scoring one run in the bottom half of the first inning and a few more in the second and third innings. In the fifth inning the game looked as though it would be a nail bitter as Valley held 6-5 lead; however, it only got worse as you can tell from the final score. It was a terrible feeling to not only lose in the state tournament, but to lose in the state tournament to Pascack Valley.

My break got better when I played with my AAU team for the first time. We had our first games in a tournament down in Seacaucus. We won the tournament with a perfect 4-0 record, winning in the finals by a score of 7-4. It was a wood bat tournament which was different because most of the time I hit with metal. Its a good experience to hit with a wood bat because the ball won't travel as far and you have to have quicker hands since the wood is thicker and heavier than a metal bat. The only downside of playing in the tournament, was that I had to wake up early in the morning on two occasions when I was looking forward to catching up on some sleep.

The high point of my break was when I went to a sweet sixteen on Sunday night. It was celebrating three different girls 16th birthdays, and one of them was Nicole.

Unfortunetly, the trip ended on a down slide, for all throughout Tuesday I was catching up on work I should have done over break. I don't think i'll ever learn that its just better to spend 30 minutes a day working, instead of trying to cram it all in on the day before I head back to school.

All in all it was a pretty exciting break, but it got my ready for summer which can't be a good thing.