State Champions

And so it began, Friday evening the Chaos Family headed to Conroe for the weekend with hopes and dreams of the USSSA 8U Texas South State Championship.  After some swimming, eating and birthday celebration for Klay, the boys got to bed early for what was to start the long and hot weekend.

Haden in action!

Saturday morning started off against the Defenders, an undefeated team and yes had beaten us before.  After we took the lead – the Defenders came back and one it with time being called 9-7.  1:30 p.m. began our second game.  If they could just get the bats going …and that they did – the boys put it on them scoring 7 runs the first inning and getting no outs!  Chaos ended that game early 18-3~~and so with one loss and one win we knew that the boys would have a long day on Sunday. 

Ty up to bat~

Of course the Moms took advantage of the Woodlands area and hit the roads shopping.   I wish we could have all crammed in one car but we couldn’t!  Some of them shopped for hours – me – well Carrie and I hit two stores before calling it quits, we kept remembering Happy Hour at the hotel started at 5:30 and we didn’t want to miss it!  Our friends, Carrie and Monty introduced us to restaurant called Genghis Grill.  It is delicious!  Haden devoured his entire bowl ~ he said he was full but the food was so good he couldn’t quit eating! Lots of laughs at dinner time with the Vincents and Croaks!  Oh my lots of laughs ~ from Cool to Wow to Mom ~~ It was early to bed as the boys started off with their first game at 9:00 a.m.

Sunday’s games are single elimination games.  If you don’t win you go home early!  No one wanted to have that experience – they all knew the State Championship was at stake and a ring was in sight!  The boys played at 9:00 a.m., with a win they played again at 1:30 and that is just what we did!  After our first game we all had enough time to go eat a bit and yes, we headed back to Genghis Grill!  Our 1:30 game ended in a victory and put us in the state championship game against none other but the Defenders at 4:30.  Remember they were undefeated and had beat us the day before.  Plus the boys had played two games already on Sunday – Defenders only had played one.  And so at 4:30 it started the game of all games!





                                     

                      

After a few innings it wasn’t long with our bats  and defense the boys were up 8-2.  However, in a blink of an eye the Defenders were back in the game and had tied it up 8-8, they were not ready to give up the undefeated record – not yet!  The bottom of the 5^th Chaos was down 11-10.  I am not sure what Coach Larry told the boys at that point in time, but I knew they had to at least score one run to keep us in the game after all it was the last inning.  Not only did our boys put up one run the boys gave it all they had and put their bats to them.  They scored 5 runs and left the remaining three outs to the Defenders with a score of 15-11.  The Defenders didn’t give up but couldn’t quit pull it through. Our boys had fought hard all day long..they were ready to put it to bed after a few hits they decided it was time for lights out! That is what they did.  They shut them down and won the game 15-13. 

Parents cheered, Coaches hollered, and the boys cheered and smiled the biggest smiles I had seen in a long time.  It was an amazing and special event to be a part of.  We all witnessed 11 boys give it all they had and play their hearts out and earn their victory.  I should say it was a special Father’s day for each Dad too!  This was a memory of a lifetime.  The boys finally got their first place trophy, ended the Defenders undefeated record and got their Championship rings!! 

The Chaos Boys....doing their version of Word Up!