Gabe's Orioles

On Monday night Gabe and his Orioles team finished the season with a First Place Trophy...and quite a story to tell!  Gabe and his team went into the Catt Leedom Tourney with a first place seed...looked like it would be a pretty easy time getting to the championships...2 games and voila!, playing for first place!  Well, as the old saying goes...it's never as easy as it seems!  The first game was a booger!  With a first place seed, they had a bye the first round, so their first game was against a pretty good team!  Unfortunately, they lost that first game...but not all was lost...because it was a double elimination tournament, they just had to win their way back on the loser side of the bracket---piece of cake!  NOT!  They played their first game on Monday night, lost that one and then continued to play a game Tuesday, Wednesday and 2 on Thursday to win their way into the championship game!  That my friends, is a lot of baseball in one week..plus throw in 3 of Grady's games....yep, we definitely had bleacher bottoms!  Gabe had a pretty solid tournament...he had several good hits, played center and first, as well as pitched the entire game against the Cubs winning that game 12-1!  So, the Orioles had to win 4 games to get back into the Championships....out of those 4 games only one was easy, the others they really had to be on top of their game!  After winning the second game on Thursday night...they had the weekend to rest up and then it was time for redemption on Monday!  They had to play the team that had beaten them at the beginning of the tournament..and in order to get first place they had to win against this team twice!  Well, long story short....they did it!  It was a fantastic evening of baseball.....the boys were no doubt tuckered out, but the look of sweet victory on those faces was priceless.  I'm not sure if they had just went out and won that very first game, the victory would have been as sweet...something about having to come back and work your way to first just makes it that much better!  Thank you Gabe and the Orioles for a very fun and exciting baseball season!!!  Way to Go Gabe...we are so proud of you!!!