JV Lady Cougars

Ali's playing softball this spring, and enjoying it a lot! She is playing second base on the JV team, and is turning out to be a pretty good infielder. She made a couple critical stops in their game tonight, a 3-3 tie against Santa Fe. (The girls dropped their first game, 0-5, to perennial division powerhouse Holden, and thus are standing at 0-1-1.) Here, she's reacting to a pop fly that actually went to the shortstop, which ended up being a double play when the runner at first inexplicably failed to return to base.

Ali was pretty far down in the batting order, and had only one at-bat tonight (the game was called early due to impending rain; the home coach was quite antsy to get the tarp down, apparently.) Her batting skills are slowly improving -- she's getting the bat around much more quickly & makes contact more often. Tonight, she only fouled one back before striking out. Oh well, lots of practice there will make things better. We'll probably end up hitting the local batting cages with some regularity.