Sons of Pitches

It’s summer time and Keagan’s 3v3 team spent their first free weekend playing soccer. We were hoping to spend Saturday playing in the state tourney, but our loss last weekend against Knoxville, eliminated our team. Sons of Pitches played in Clarksville instead.

Evan is the coach. He remained calm on the field, offered a few words of advice to the boys, encouraged from the sidelines, and substituted the players so they all got equal playing time.  (I know that last part was hard for him.) He argued with the ref’s bad calls AFTER the game and even got the final score of game two changed in our favor when he was able to articulate why she was wrong.

We won game one. Lost game two. Tied game three. And lost in the third place game. We finished in fourth even after playing up. Not bad, but not great. Keagan had a goal in game three - this is his shot. 

Evan’s coaching contract has been extended to July. Let’s see if he can come up with a plan for winning by then. 

Summer Break

Ahhhh! Finally!! After teaching 21 years, this is surely the most celebrated last day of school ever. Never have I had a more challenging class or a group of kids that made me question my chosen profession. I cried on my way to work the entire first quarter. I contemplated, several days in the second quarter, not taking my exit to Fort Campbell and just continuing west on I-24. There’s nothing north of post except Paducah and a quilt museum, and believe me when I say there were days when quilt making seemed much more fun than my class of trouble. And now it’s the day I’ve been awaiting since September. It’s my first day of summer break, and I’m spending it doing everything I like but soccer.

 Tonight I attended an art class where we made serving trays out of whiskey barrel lids. What says Tennessee more than Jack Daniels? Not a whole lot. 

I think it’s just beautiful!

Next week Tina and I are glass blowing!

The Road to State

How quickly our dreams at a run for state we’re dashed! 

Here’s the hour long game in summary. They scored. We tied. We fouled in the box. They scored on a PK. We missed three shots. They got a hand ball in the box. We got a PK. We missed. We lost. Heartbreak!

We can’t wait until August to play again, so we are playing 3v3 on Saturday. It’s a chance at winning again - just not winning state. 

Drivin’

One of the biggest days in Evan’s life, Wes takes this pic AND seems to not mind the hair. At all. And I can’t think of anything or see anything but the hair. 

My boy is behind the wheel after passing the test on his first attempt. Everyone in Tennessee knows passing is a big deal but passing after only one try is rare. 

Drivers Ed begins in July!

Soccer Banquet

“When you have to preface a sentence with ‘I probably shouldn’t say this,’ you should just keep your mouth shut.” 

I said this at PD a couple of weeks ago when our trainer made some snarky comments to the teachers and prefaced her mean words with “I probably shouldn’t say this.” My team said it was golden advice that we teach our students almost daily but rarely think about when we ourselves are disgruntled. 

I’m taking my own advice today. I’m keeping my mouth shut about school soccer. 

The highschool soccer banquet was last night - even though our season continues. The first year players came home with pins - not Varsity letters.

Evan and Bodie, freshmen teammmates 

Freshmen players

The team plays in state tonight. A win secures a spot in the semi-final game on Wednesday. 

Field Day

These kids have earned the bragging rights as the Tug-of-War and Mega Relay Champions at the seventh grade field day. I asked Keagan what he ran, and he told me he didn’t feel like running today. I said, huh? And then he proceeded to explain he was being nice and let the other boys run. While they ran, he competed in a basketball/passing game with his friend Aubrey. Um hum. Just out of the goodness of your heart you let them run while you hung out with a girl. 

(That’s my boy in the middle with the great haircut. He didn’t like the short hair on Saturday, but when he got to school on Monday and the girls commented how great it looked, it was suddenly the best haircut.)

Region 7-AAA Champions

With a final score of 2-1 over our biggest rival and after one of the best games I’ve had the pleasure of watching, Rossview comes home as the Regional Champions! The score was 0-1 at half, but the boys came out attacking the second half and scored two goals rather quickly. I’ve never seen this team play with so much passion! Today’s win over CHS gives the school its first regional championship. This weekend we continue play at sectionals with home field advantage.