Personal Narrative: Haylee's Softball Team

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My uncle screamed, “Go, run, faster, SCORE Audrey!” Wait a minute, let me start at the beginning. My sister, Haylee, is in fourth grade and she is nine years old. Haylee is a very smart little girl and not to mention a great softball player. Haylee takes after Taryn and looks up to her and admires her very, very much. Haylee is continuing on as #00 and an amazing third baseman like her cousin. Taryn’s dad, my uncle Scott, loves, lives, and breathes baseball. He coaches Haylee along with Taryn, my dad, Chad Densteadt, and Craig Poppema. They coach the U8 team my sister’s on every year and hopefully years to come. This team was very young and inexperienced at the beginning of the year but built into an amazing team and softball family. There were new girls on the team that were only six! Their names were Emily, Mya, Harper, and Audrey. The team looked like a …show more content…
Their bracket was the upper level of the U8 Mason Softball Organization. Bath and DeWitt had to win four games in one day to win the tournament; the other teams had to win only three, because they had the worst records. Bath destroyed DeWitt 14-4, Haylee had 2 doubles and a triple that game. They moved on to face the undefeated Laingsburg A team and came out on top through a roller coaster of a game. In the semi final game they faced a very familiar team, Holt A. Bath had faced this team twice in the last week and split with them. Bath was the home team so they batted last. Holt came out swinging the bat like a bunch of wild girls, they scored two runs in the top of the first. My uncle is a very competitive man and refuses to lose in everything he does. He was not impressed by the first inning. He gathered the girls in a huddle and talked about how they can still win the tournament; against the odds. Bath won the end-of-season tournament the last two years but if they wanted to do it this year they had to dig deep and play harder than ever