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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years to learn, and should attract the interests of the school spirit. From the first day I walked into high school, the spirit of team sports and team acknowledgment went to the football team. I can understand this fact, considering football in America creates a large revenue for businesses throughout the country;
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Catch This! ¨Can you catch this!?¨, yelled Eddie as he drilled the ball so hard into my hands that the ball instantly bounced out as I fell to the ground. ¨HAHA!¨ Eddie yelled in victory, Eddie got so distracted he didn't see Tommy silently creep up behind him and slam the ball against him. Eddie howled like a wolf would to the moon. ¨I did it!¨ Tommy said happily, ¨Yeah ok ok, chill.¨ I said as I got up from the ground. We all looked at each other and we knew who was our target and we prepared
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After Christopher Columbus journey to the new world, countries like England, Sweden, France, Netherlands, and Spain wanted to go to North America because of the fortunes, land, and for a north west passage to the trade riches of Asia. The Spanish were the first Europeans to settle in America, and their main priority was to take advantage of it, and take as much power as possible by extending their land. Spanish people just wanted to control everything, and be the most powerful country. This new world
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1492, Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blues and discovered a new world. It was later named the Americas where Spain and England fought over to gain power. In the 1600s, colonies were being set up by England to fulfill mercantilism, the belief that a nation can become rich and powerful by either getting gold and silver or selling more goods than it buys. English immigrants came to the Americas for many different reasons. Their common belief was hope in the new world to have a better life. The
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