2018 Little League Season

Bennett had a wonderful time at Little League this year.  This was his first full season of live arm and he learned so much.  Neil is a happy member of the Shreveport Little League board and they have really turned things around at SLL.  For starters, they planned a huge opening ceremonies night complete with fireworks!  

Neil, SK, and I all drove to Lafayette one evening to pick up all the fireworks donated by our sweet friends in Baton Rouge!  Thanks so much to the Shadoins!

Opening ceremonies had a ceremonial pitch, the National Anthem was sung, and we presented each team.  They each had a cool banner to carry!  So much fun!

Ryan tossing out the first pitch

We were the Pilots this year!  (LSUS Pilots)

Good looking Developing team.

Henry was excited to see his classmate, John Hunter.

This was Bennett's first time to play catcher and let me just say....he is GOOD!  I am always impressed, but dad gum he just knows what to do somehow!

Swinging

The fireworks show was spectacular!  We had a little mishap about 2 hours before the show.  Someone called the Fire Marshal and let them know we were doing them.  Neil had to scramble to get a permit and a licensed person to light them 2 hours before showtime!

Our boys were so excited!

Bennett and Jude got the game balls from our double header.

Look at this textbook swing!  He had a lesson with a retired professional baseball player that Pops bought at the Fairfield auction.  It helped so much! One of the dads on the team took this amazing picture!

We had an end of season tournament to determine the winner of the age group.  We had 5 teams in our age bracket and WE WON!  We were so excited because we were the obvious underdogs.  The boys really worked hard, listened to their coaches,(Kyle, Neil, and Gene) and developed into a great little team.  We were some proud baseball moms.

Bringing home that GOLD!

When your opponent is one of your BFFs.

The Pilots and the Southern Gents (Centenary) 

Several of these boys had never played baseball before

We had a little ice cream party at DQ after the big win!

Coach Kyle got dunked! haha!

Gavin's dad took this amazing picture of Bennett sliding into 2nd.  Poor John Rives had dirt all in his eyes!

Here comes our boy!

This was such a fun season!  We worked so hard at the concession stand, meeting people and delivery guys out there almost daily.   We are really hoping we can earn enough money to get some concrete walkways!