The first time I played softball we were at the Phenix City softball ball field and I had to learn to not give up on something I really wanted to do. So the first time I stepped on the field all I could do was see the sun and smell the oxygen. The next day I hit the ball for the first time ever and I was so ecstatic. My mom and coach were so surprised and happy that I need that with only a couple minutes of practice. After I hit that ball I ran all 5 bases, my coach was so happy for me. It is not
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non-athletes of the school – to play a sport”(“History”). After finishing high school Joel Silver, Buzzy Hellring and Jonny Hines, the original players, were ready to head off to college. But before that, they had to print out the up-to-date rules. In these rules they set the standards of the game. Such as the amount of players on the field, which was seven on each team(“History”). This origin story is the first glimpse of popularity, and growth for the
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It was the top of the fourth,and Bailey was up to bat.The pitcher that she was up against was one of the best in the league. Then the ball was pitched. It was a fastball right down the middle, but Baily knew it was coming and she was ready. She swung the bat and nailed the ball. It was a line drive to left field and it went out of the park for a homerun. The crowd went wild and Bailey walked it off making it look easy. At the age of 16, Bailey was one of OP’s youngest starting varsity softball
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Have you ever had to play a weekend softball tournament in just one day? My team had to play an entire softball tournament in one day due to rain delays. We had to play four games that day. Each game seemed harder and harder to complete. In order to win the tournament, we had to win every game with only one loss at the most. If we lost two games then we were eliminated from the tournament. We started off playing our first game very well even though the weather was cold and rainy. The temperature
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You Got This “HERE WE GO HAYLEE!” was all I could hear as I was standing on the pitching mound exasperated. I had just walked two girls in a row and hit the next in the ankle. We were down three in the bottom of the fifth with one out and I was basically giving runs away. I knew I was in for it when my coach called time and started walking emotionlessly towards me. I looked at him and pleaded, “Take me out Coach; let someone else pitch. I can’t get it done today.” He chuckled like I had just told
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MORGANTOWN, W.Va.--The West Virginia University baseball team defeated Virginia Tech 10-5 on Wednesday at Monongalia County Ballpark. The Mountaineers (25-21) jumped out to an early 7-0 lead to beat the Hokies (20-27) for the third consecutive time and ninth in the last 13 games. "We're having some consistency on offense," WVU head coach Randy Mazey said. "It appears we got our short game back, which disappeared for a while. I think we had three or four bunt hits tonight. We moved some runners
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Question 14 Do you see different images if you look right to left versus left to right? Did you share perspectives with someone else? Did their views increase your ability to see the whole picture? In picture 3 I can see a difference when changing my view angle. I seem to make out a rabbit when looking at it differently. Through sharing this image with someone else my ability to see the change in the object became decreased, this was as it became harder to see the duck that I originally saw when
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Ryan caught the football. He passed it to Ethan who ran down the field, who passed it to me, I started to sprint. It was a friday morning and me and my friends were playing flag football at big Waddell Field. We got into teams. It was me, Ethan, Ryan, Evan, and Aron. We Had been playing for less than five minutes when we made the first touchdown. Ethan and Ryan of course were the stars of the play. After that I called a group meeting. “Okay guys here the pla-” “This is what we're going to do…”
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“Strike three, you’re out!” yelled my coach as the ball whipped past the plate. It was the last day of Softball tryouts my sophomore year, and I had struck out at every at bat. I walked back to the dugout with a feeling of complete disappointment, dragging my bat along the dirt. Like my Papa always said, “failure is the first step to success.” I kept wishing he was there with me in that moment to tell me all of the things that kept me motivated and helped me know what to do in these situations. He
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The smell of fresh pines roams the air, as the club comes hurling down to strike the ball delivering tremendous force, the ball flies into the air, rotating until the revolutions slowly begins to slow down, then the ball hits the ground leaving an impression into the surface of Earth. In school the term “sport” usually does not coincide with golf, the vast majority of the student body do not recognize its existence, however golf takes years to learn, and should attract the interests of the school
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