SUMMER BASEBALL
I am going on my third year on the North Boise Little league Board of Directors. I managed Tanner's AA team in the spring season and that rolled right into our Summer Ball "Bombers" team. It was basically the same kids with a couple of changes that I managed in Spring. We had an almost exact duplicate of a season. Tanner and his buddies did great, had a blast, and mowed down the competition, losing only one game (and then only because we only had six kids show up - Summer vacations are killers). Tanner pitched a ton and was one of the best pitchers, if not THE best, in the league. He went on a tear in the finals, pitching three innings in both of our games, striking out 7 in one and 6 in the other. Our team was really good, turning a couple of double plays and one triple play over the course of the season. The weather couldn't have been better for us and we didn't have any 110 degree games this year. We lost in the finals 3-1 against a team we beat the other three times we played them. Just baseball stuff happened, we had runners on third three times and just couldn't get them home. It was a heartbreaker of a loss, but the kids handled it really well. My friend (and assistant coach) Sean and I got the second place coaches Gatorade bath from the kids and a trip to Sonic took care of all the baseball blues. This team is eligible for All Stars for the first time next season, so we likely won't be playing Summer Ball next year and we're talking about starting a club team with this group of boys so they can play some more high level baseball. Tanner and his buddy Gus are playing their last year of Flag football this year (neither of them want to play tackle) and are going to double up on baseball along with their buddy Evan next year. FOOTBALL
Before baseball season was even over, football season had started. Jake is playing his junior year of tackle football and Tanner is playing his last year of flag. I have been coaching Jakes team for the last three seasons and we just finished up hell week and the Opening Jamboree. They boys are off to a solid start and this is the first year it didn't feel like we started from ground zero. They played well and won their Opening Day scrimmage pretty handily. We have our first regular season game tomorrow out in Nampa and the practice schedule mellows out a little bit starting next week. Jake vacillates back and forth, almost constantly, about whether he will keep playing football or not and right now is kind of in the "not" camp, but we'll see how this season ends up. If he ends up in the ER again, his Mom and I are going to think about making that decision for him. It looks like Tanner is playing center again this season, which he loves. He likes playing football, but I think he knows it's not really his sport. He has fun and likes running around, but knows he wouldn't like getting knocked around by kids twice his size with pads and helmets on so doesn't really have the desire to continue playing. Football runs until mid-October and then immediately bleeds into...BASKETBALL
Jake played Summer AAU this season, kind of. He missed a lot due to camp and other commitments. He played with the same team as he played with last fall. He has already tried out for fall AAU as well as a Flite Club Basketball team with some other boys form the neighborhood. We are waiting to see what the results of those tryouts are and should find out in the next week or two. Tanner will play YBasketball against this year with his same group of friends. I will coach for likely my last season as basketball starts to outstrip my knowledge of the game in the third grade season and someone who actually knows what they are doing is going to have to take over. Basketball season is our time off from baseball and will be even if we do get this baseball club team going. Tanner and Jake both love to play basketball and unlike football, they both possess some basketball skills.
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