A Rainy Start

Last weekend, I went down to Auburn, Washington, for a softball tournament. The tournament only had two states team in it and the rest were actually all BC teams that we could have played at home. On the three hour drive there, my mother and friend and I saw that the weather wasn't going to be very nice this weekend and had a hunch it might even be canceled. On Saturday morning everyone woke up to rain, but we didn't get a call that would notify that the games were canceled or delayed, so we headed down to the fields. When we got there, there was no one in sight! When my coach pulled in the parking lot, he told us that the tournament director just called saying out 12:00 game is now moved to 5:00. We were pretty upset that the tournament director didn't bother telling us till we got to the fields. Not only was our games pushed back, but we now had to play at very grungy fields. So when 3:45 came, we were warming up. The rain was just pouring down, but everyone continued to play. A little confused as to why the games were going on, my friends mother asked when to the umps call the game. His reply? When a pitcher slips on the mound. Finally, it was game time! The team we were suppose to play, dropped out at the last second, therefore we had to play a U16 team, that wasn't very good. We mercied them fairly easily (meaning that we scored over eight runs). After that game we were to play our rivals Surrey Storm- from Canada. It was my turn to pitch and I couldn't wait to pitch against this team. The score remained 0-0 for a very long time, neither teams were getting any hits, therefore no one was scoring. In about the sixth inning, I noticed the mound was getting slippery and that there was something wrong with it where I liked to push off. All of a sudden, I go to pitch and when my foot was suppose to go forward it went back and I slipped! Apparently I fell weird and many thought I busted my knee, but I actually busted my ankle- which still hurts to the day. At that moment my coach was furious because of the field conditions and many thought I would have been out for an ankle injury, but there was no way I was going to sit out because of that! So I continued to play and tough it out. We were also shocked to find that the umps didn't call the game, because they said they would if a pitcher slipped. Overall we lost the game 0-1. We lost on an error, thus we should have ended on a tie. It was still a good game and enjoyable to play- minus the ankle injury. The next morning we had to get up at 6:45am to get ready for our 9:00 game. Once we were up and dressed, we were told the tournament was canceled! Everyone wasn't very happy with the result because we spent a lot of money on this trip, for nothing. It was an interesting weekend, but it would have been nice to get more then two games in. No one can control the weather- unfortunately.
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