Another one of those hectic evenings. The ex-wife picked up both girls and took them to Shelby's fencing lesson while I got food for Darby and met them at fencing. Darby had to eat while Shelby was fencing because she had a game following. After Shelby's fencing, Darby had to get changed into her softball uniform and we headed to the game.
At fencing, Shelby had a skills test and was promoted a level. With this promotion, she has completed the Apprentice (green) level and is now a Musketeer (blue), so she got her blue ribbon and a green patch for her uniform to signify her completion of the green level. Here's a pic of her with her new ribbon and patch. A tournament has been announced for next month, so I've put it on the calendar (for April), though we haven't registered yet, but I don't see why we wouldn't attend.
Darby's game was a late one, which always makes things interesting (it was 8:20 before we even got started). Shelby's fencing is on the West side of town and Darby's ballgame on the East side of town. And since the girls are slated to stay with their mom tonight, after the game I had to take Darby to her mom's (where Shelby went from fencing) back on the West side of town.
Darby's 2nd-year getting-better-but-still-needs-much-work team faced a far superior 4th-year team, almost all of which were taller than Darby, who is the oldest on her team (all the other girls on Darby's team can play another season or two, whereas this is Darby's last season in this division [machine pitch], as she has to move up next season due to age). So we expected a stomping, which was the case score-wise, but to our surprise, the girls held up VERY well against the better team. As a team they got more hits than last night and scored a couple runs (which is good considering the sharpness of the opposition defense). Darby had a couple strike-outs, but defensively she did awesome. She had three put-outs herself over two innings, two of which were back to back, hard-hit grounders that she handled the way any quality third baseman would (she got high-fives from the opposition's third base coach -- maybe they're recruiting... that whole team moves up a division next season). She nearly caught a line drive and she narrowly missed several other grounders that were really shortstop plays anyway, and in general was doing all the things she needed to do without prompting by me or the coach (unlike last year), so I think she's finally finding her groove.
The weather was a factor both last night and tonight. It got pretty cold, but it didn't help that tonight Darby forgot her jacket AND gloves. I was personally freezing my bum off, and I had my jacket, gloves, and scarf, so I'm sure she was a bit chilly (at least she remembered her headband to protect her ears unlike last night). Well, we have another game tomorrow, so maybe we'll have everything together next time.
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