Hooks Baseball

This post is way overdue but I didn't do a great job taking pictures this year so I was waiting to get as many as possible from friends and off of Doug's phone! 

Matt played with the Hooks baseball team again this year and the boys had a much better year!  A few faces changed but not many.  Matt primarily played first base again but also got to play a bit at third base and maybe had his best tournament when he played left center.  He played catcher a few times and that's always his favorite! The very last tournament of the season he also got to pitch an inning!! He did pretty well for his first time.  He did hit a kid in the shin but it wasn't too hard (thankfully) and the kid should have moved! Ha! He struck one kid out, another hit the ball directly back at him and he made a great play.  The last kid hit a great ball to third base and Caden made a great play and got him out at first.  So not too bad for his first time on the mound!

If I remember correctly...what are the odds of that?...the boys placed 2nd in their first tournament.  It was a great weekend in good ole Beaumont, TX except 20 minutes before the championship game ended, the temperature literally dropped 20 degrees, the wind picked up and it started pouring! So this is the only pic I got from the trophy ceremony which lasted maybe 2 minutes!

Here are a few other good pics of Matt from that tourney...

A few weeks later the boys played at Baseball USA and guess who won that tournament?  Our boys did! The boys played SO well.  Every kid on the team made a great play during the weekend.  It was so fun to watch and the boys were crazy excited! 

The Dads promised the boys they would do the harlem shake if they won a tournament.  This had to be one of my favorite memories of the year.  We all must have watched this 20+ times to make sure we saw each Dad and kid dance.  So maybe it's not a great "harlem shake" but it's a fabulous "Hooks Harlem Shake".  A special thanks to Coach Joel for the entertainment!









Good news, bad news...good news is that the boys played so well that they got moved up to Elite! Bad news is that now we're playing with the big boys and games just got much harder.  The boys struggled a bit playing elite teams but they sure tried. 

 

Coaches decided to end the season with a kid-pitch tournament because next year they move up to kid-pitch.  It was really for practice and I sort of assumed it would be pretty wild.  Well guess what...the Hooks won that tournament too!  Seriously?  Yes.  I was so proud of those boys. 

Matt congratulations on a great year!  What I like most about your team is all the high fives and chest bumps after someone makes a good play.  You won't win em all but you play hard and do a great job encouraging your teammates.  We are a proud family all in orange!