All Stars

 All 3 boys made the All-Star teams!  Eli played 2 tournaments last week.  One was rained out before completion and the 2nd one was this past weekend.  He did well.  It's difficult at the 8U level because there are rules that they have not played all year long that are in effect for tournament play!  

He played Short Stop, 3rd and Outfield and did well though. His batting wasn't his best, but he did well - and He had fun!

This past Saturday we had 6 games in 1 day!  Talk about crazy!

But these 3 look great in their All-Star uniforms!

Love these Adkins boys!

It was a long day and a hot humid one too, but the boys did well!  Ronnie pitched and had 6 good innings.  Nathaniel did a fantastic job in the field and Eli did well too!  All 3 boys were exhausted after a long day of games!  

Love watching them play and I hate missing their games.  

Have a feeling there will be more and more of multiple games at the same time! 

 

Here Eli and Maddie are watching the big boys!  Maddie borrowed a Bat Boys shirt for the tournament!

Didn't get a picture of the Pee Wee All-Star team, but here is the Little League team.  The boys have played with these boys for 5 years now!  Good group of guys and fun to watch!

 

So now we have one more Little League tournament this weekend and then we can wrap up the 2015 Baseball Season!  

Next year we will add softball into the mix....let the craziness continue!

R3 and Nate - Little League

I'm behind a little, but last week was the end of the boys first year of Little League.  The season didn't end like they had hoped, but they both did fantastic!  

Both the boys really did well with pitching this year.  Ronnie has some amazing skills when it comes to pitching and I honestly don't think that is just bias!  

His batting was not his best year, but still good!  I'm proud of him.  During the final tournament game last week he faced all 10 batters in 3 innings and struck out 7 of them!  He was on!  Only 1 batter even made it to 1st :)  Excellent job on the mound!

It was fun that his Daddy coached them again too!  I love watching all 3 of them on the field!  They make a good team!

Then there is Nathaniel, who is actually one of the youngest in the whole league.  He is 10 playing in the 12U league!  And he does great!  He pitched some and dominated most nights!  But his fielding, WOW - love watching him at Short Stop!

 

 They both love the game, and love being on the field - and me...well I just love cheering them on!

We make a good team!

 

 Super proud of the boys - Now we are on to All-Stars - all 3 made the All-Stars this year!  So 2 more weeks of ball around here!

Eli's Season - Pee Wee

Eli finished his regular season tonight!  The team record was not great, but he personally had a great year with much improvement!  He became one of the team leaders and I'm so proud of him!

His team was young and 7 of them were from our churches!  Plus Daddy coached :)

 

For the tournament, he and his buddy, Elijah, got to be captains for the coin toss! 

 

He had a couple of good hits tonight and did some great fielding at Short and Second!

All around a rough season, but again, proud of his leadership!

He super excited to have made All-Star's too - so one more week of tournaments :)

Brithday Trip

On Tuesday for Ronnie's birthday we went to Detroit.  Ronnie (and Nathaniel too) are baseball fans.  Their teams is the Indians, but they really just love the game!  So we decided to take them to another ball park.  We got tickets to see the Tigers and the Reds!

We arrived early enough to watch the Reds take batting practice!  Yes, we were cheering for the Reds!

Then in the 5th we were invited to go to the "something Grille" (- totally can't think of the name of it right now) it was right along the right field line!  The boys weren't sure at first, as we walked from our seats in left field and they were trying to keep the books!

But then we got to move to the closer table and they were excited!

So a new ballpark.  

A new experience!  

A win for the Reds!  

An all around great day!  

They all 4 had a good time and we didn't get heckled too badly despite wearing some Buckeye red :)

2015 Baseball underway

Opening Day was Saturday.  Last night was Ronnie and Nathaniel's first game and first win.  Eli is scheduled to play tonight, but not sure yet if the weather will cooperate!

Here are a few quick pictures as we start off the 2015 Season!

Here they are - the 2015 crew!  Eli is wearing his Bat Boy 0.5 shirt in this one, but he is also on a team.

Ronnie Lee III

Nathaniel Blake - Mr. Cool!

Little Man, Eli - ready for Opening Day

Most of the kids on our 2 teams are from either Farmer or Ney!  8 on the Pee Wee Team and 5 from the Little League Team!

Pee Wee Adkins Team picture.  Eli is the front right and Daddy is the coach on the left!

Little League Team Adkins - Ronnie and Nathaniel are back row 2nd and 3rd.  Bat boy is middle row and Daddy on the left behind team!

Not a good picture at all - I promised I'll do better, but here is our starting pitcher.  This little man (Ronnie) has some power!

Nathaniel up to bat in the 4th.  This is right before he swung (too quick) and got his first Home run!

Had a fun time last night and hopefully another game tonight.  

Love watching my boys play!

Progressive Field - First Time this Season

Wednesday evening was our first visit to Progressive Field this season, although thanks to the boys High Achievers program - we get to go 2 more times this month!

All four kids got a ball from batting practice!!!

Then we got down close enough to hopefully get an autograph or 2!

 

Mission accomplished...well for 2 of them.  Maddie and Nathaniel got Brantley to sign their baseball and then Nathaniel also got Kipnis.  Brantley is an outfielder for the Indians and happens to be Nathaniel's favorite player - he was SOOOOOO loving it! "He talked to me!" was about all he could say for a bit and you couldn't wipe the grin off his face!

 

 We were right down near the field while they were stretching.  Below is Murphy (Ronnie's favorite), Brantley (Nathaniel's favorite) and Kipnis!

As if that wasn't enough, it was a great game!  Not a whole lot of action - except during the 5th inning when I snapped this picture with the bases loaded.

 It was a pitching dual and the Indians, Kluber, did fantastic with his first ever complete game no hitter!  He's good, and fun to watch!

 The kids all 4 had fun and enjoyed the WIN!

 Thankful for an opportunity like the High Achievers Program where we can make fun memories and not spend money :)

We get to go back in a little over a week, hopefully another WIN!

Go TRIBE!

Another Baseball Season

 Another Baseball Season comes to an end!  This has been a rough one in that with 3 boys we had 2 teams!  And Daddy coached both - too much!  And yet it was a fun season!  This past week was tournament week and so it was a week FULL of baseball!

On Friday evening the Pee Wee team was still in the winner's bracket and had to play 2 games.  They didn't end up pulling it off, but they had fun and came away as the runner-up! 

 Elli receiving his trophy from Coach Daddy!

There were some challenges to the season, but overall these boys did well and had fun too!  Eli loves playing and really knows the game well, he is still at that age where his body needs to catch up to what his brain wants him to do, but he's got a great heart and personality!

Ron was blessed to have these 3 kids from our Farmer Church too!  

Great kids!

 Then on Saturday the Minor League team played in the Championship Game!  

Ronnie and Nathaniel have been in the Championship Game (and Won) the last 4 years!  It was a hard fought game, but we came out on top! 

Nathaniel

Ronnie

Eli - best bat boy in the league!

This group of young men is the absolute best group of kids that Ron has ever coached!  They are good kids and just have fun together!  They went 18-3 this season and really never got overly excited about the wins or losses - they just played ball! Then don't brag, they just play hard while they're on the field!

Ron called them his "old timers" team!  Fun kids to be around!

On the Minor team there were 3 boys plus our 3 who were from our Farmer Church!

The Adkins boys had another great baseball Season!

1-2-3-Go Fairview!

now we have 2 more weeks....All Stars!