Team Salvo

I know it seems all i do is talk about softball. But it is (almost over) and a major part of our lives right now. We spend 4 days of the week at softball. Our team name is Team Salvo. We have a mens team and a co-ed team. Named after the bats that you see below. The guys on the team seem to have a slight obsession with them, there has since been 3 yellow Salvo's added to this. What can i say, they are great bats. I use one of them. Don't ask me why we need so many of the same thing. But once one of the guys had it 3 of the others needed to have one too and the same goes for the yellow bats too, once they saw someone else with it they needed to have it to.

2 weeks ago was the districts tournament for the league teams (league team meaning if you didn't sign that teams roster you couldn't play with them for this tournament). We had to add a few last minute people to our roster because of the location of the state tournament. 

Not only did our mens team get 1st for the local mens league in Hamilton, they went on to win the Districts tournament, which is not easy. They played so well and ended the weekend undefeated guaranteeing them a spot at state which is this coming weekend. There is going to be some really good competition there and they are going to have to bring their "A" game. 

The kids are a huge part of this team (as you can see in the pic) Kendall is around all these guys constantly and loves all of them and they all look out for her and keep her pretty well entertained (which is nice since i am always keeping score and need to pay attention to whats going on) when they aren't on the field. The little boy in back, Drextin, is her cousin and the little girl up front (next to K) Preslyn is one of her best buds, they play together so good and love running around the bases on the field together.

I am bummed i am not going to state, things were getting too complicated with the sleeping situations because they will not allow camping at the fields, so the guys are getting hotel rooms and it will be easier (and cheaper) for K and I to stay home.

Our co-ed team is doing really good. We will not be participating in Districts or State (as far as i know) we have 1 more game today and i believe we will finish out the season in 1st place as well. 

For our first year running a team it was complicated because it was all so new to us. We did really well for a first year team, mostly because all the guys know each other and a lot of them have played football and softball together over the years. None of this would have been possible without our awesome sponsors: The Edge Restaurant, Custom Plumbing, Lightfoot Cycles, Kodiak Jax 2, Darby Wine and Spirits, Big Sky Rental, and Bitterroot Beanery. We appreciate everything they did for us and their donations helped us out a lot.