Well, it was a quick season for the RUG 9-10 year old All-Stars.? They played two games last weekend…and are now out of the tournament.? They were hard losses, too as they were 5 runs ahead in the first game until the 4th inning and 1 run ahead in the second game until the 6th inning.? Josh pitched the first 5 and 1/3 innings of the second game.? He did an awesome job, throwing only 50 pitches and letting in only 1 run!? He was also involved in all three of the RUG team’s runs, either batting them in, or being the runner making it home.? He added some spice to the game as well, getting out of pickles between 3rd and home, twice before he was tagged out the third time it happened.

On with the rest of the summer, now.? Josh still isn’t done with baseball!? He’s going to be going to? the TBI Baseball camp? in Ephrata, WA for a week!? Zach and Morgan will be joining GrandDad Loren and Grandma Dora up at the Double-K family camp that same week.? Nice summer break for Mom!

Well, they did it.? The Royals not only made it to the Championship, but they won it as well.? And won it with style.? Josh played well, the whole team played well, and as a team, they really came together and did a great job!

The BBQ party after the game at the Parks’ house was also a great success.? Lots of food!? Lots of fun!? The video that we put together was a real hit and there was a great time of giving out trophies and coach gifts.

Josh, Webb, Henry, and Andy from the team have all been nominated to the All-Star team for RUG.? Webb apparently has other plans this summer, but the other three are ready to go!? We discovered that Tyler, our Royals coach will be working with the Wolverines coach (2nd place team) to coach the minor league All-star team this year.? Yay, Tyler!? We’re looking forward to seeing what happens next!

Well, Josh’s team, the Royals are now in their playoffs for the Championship.? They won their first game on Friday against the Pirates and? a very tough game it was, too, I might add…? The Pirates were really fighting for the win this time and it was a very low scoring game.? Both teams did excelling pitching and fielding.? It was a fun game.

If the Royals pull off another win this Tuesday, they will have a place in the Championship game on Saturday, June 16th.? And that game will be held on the Husky softball stadium!? Pretty fancy!

Meanwhile, Leigh and I are hard at work again putting together a nifty video of the kids’ accomplishments throughout the season.? Fun, but a lot of work!?