Dylan & Dallas - Cubs Baseball

This is Dylan and Dallas's first year of the (kid pitch) Minor Leagues. It is literally a whole new ball game for them. They are doing a great job. The game seems to be all about stealing bases. It is pretty fun to watch.

Dallas has pitched in 2 of their games, and Dylan in 1 of their games. Dallas normally plays Short Stop and Dylan moves around from 3rd base, Left or Center Field. Although he played Catcher in this last game. They are both doing a great job fielding. Dylan is a great little hitter. Dallas is too, although he got hit by a ball and is scared, and now jumping out the box everytime the ball is pitched. We are trying to help him overcome that fear.

Dylan up to bat

Dallas up to bat

Dylan playing 3rd base and Dallas playing Short Stop


Dylan on 3rd base

Dylan playing Catcher

Tyler - MudCats Baseball

Tyler is playing machine pitch baseball this year and is loving it. He does a great job at hitting the ball. He is the only kid on the team to over run 1st base and then run to the right, but then he does love to over run 2nd base too. :) Shane is coaching his team this year and Tyler loves that!

Tyler playing Catcher. This is the position he always asks for.

Championship Game

Dylan

Dallas

Today was Dylan & Dallas's Championship game. They were playing against the PG Vikings. They were so excited to play. We knew that it was going to be a good game. It started off pretty well and we scored first. 7 - 0

After the first half, they scored a touchdown, but missed their extra point. So the score was 7-6. This is exactly what had happened in the season game that we played against them. Well in the last quarter, the Vikings scored another touchdown, putting the score at 13-7. The Vikings won.


It was such a sad site to see all these 4th grade boys in tears. It brought tears to my eyes. They had worked so hard for the last 3 months having gone undefeated all season....having already beat this same team...to now lose the championship. I stood there watching the awards ceremony as all the boys went up to get their medal. Most all the boys were crying. Dylan & Dallas's coaches are pretty awesome. When they were giving the medals to PG, our coaches were telling the boys to clap and cheer for their team because they had done well and earned it. What great examples their coaches are to those boys.

Dylan getting his medal

Dallas getting his medal

After the game, the coaches told them how proud they were of them and they loved them. It was such a sad but sweet moment. It was hard for me not to start crying as I was hugging my crying boys telling them how great they had played. They learned so much. I am very proud of them with how hard they worked this year.

Lone Peak 4th Grade Team 2008

Fabulous Football!!

Dylan #43

Doesn't he look so old...can't believe he is only 9

Dallas #32

Look at that cute smile!!

I am going to have to watch out for the girls, as I am already hearing about all the ones that he likes.

So Dylan and Dallas's football team is undefeated. They won all 8 season games. They were ranked #1. So last Saturday, they had their first play-off game against another Lone Peak team (ranked #4) coached by Coach Freeman. Needless to say, they kicked butt and won. It was a good game!! Pleasant Gove (#2) played American Fork #3 and PG won. So they will be playing Pleasant Grove this Saturday in the championship game.

Both our team and PG were undefeated until we played them during the season and we ended up winning 7-6. So it will definitely be a good game!!

Tackle Football

So Dylan and Dallas decided that they wanted to play tackle football this year. I was a little concerned because I heard how time consuming practices are. They started at the beginning of August with having practice Monday through Friday for 1 1/2 or 2 hours per night. When school started, they cut it back to 3 nights per week for 1 1/2 hours each. Now this is for 4th graders.... Their coaches are pretty intense. All players are guaranteed at least 10 plays in each game if they have shown up to all the practices. If they miss, they don't have to play them at all.

Well Dylan and Dallas absolutely love it!! They come home from practice telling us about the different plays and tackles they did. Dylan is on the starting offense team and is the Tight End. He is a great blocker!! Dallas plays mostly middle linebacker and he loves it!! I tried to get some cool pictures at one of the games...but it's pretty hard to get the timing right so you can actually see one of them instead another player who steps in front.

Dylan is #43 going into block

Dallas is #32