Personal Narrative-State Tournament

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It was in the middle of the summer and the heat was setting in on everyone. Baseball was the summer sport for the town of Pine Island. My team was so good that year that we got first in a tournament that qualified us for state. The first half of the summer, up until mid July, had been hot, dry, and filled with a lot of 13 and 14 year old kids that knew how to play baseball. We had a lot talent and were ready to put that talent to test in our state tournament. Not many kids are able to go through the thrill of going to state with a team that they love to play on. The morning of the state tournament we woke up, packed our bags with the sun half way over the horizon, and headed off to the state tournament. When we got to the field to play our first state tournament baseball game, we were thrilled. We arrived at an amatuer baseball team stadium ready to play Apple Valley. Walking into this stadium was like walking into and MLB stadium except with a lot less fans. Just being here was the coolest thing I could’ve asked for. After doing the national anthem and getting all of the butterflies out we started the game. …show more content…

After that we had a lot of confidence as we went to our second game that was located at a college in Lakeville. We were getting ready to play Shakopee and we expected them to be better. We walked silently up to the plate with the sound of dirt crunching under our cleats, got set, put a smile on our face, and went to work. Starting with so much confidence gave us an upper hand. With few hits by both teams and close calls we managed to scratch across ten runs to ten run the team. After rolling over our second victim we had a good note to sleep on for the next day of state baseball. The next day we had to play four more games and if we won all of those games then we would go into the championship

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