In week 4 on the 20th of February my school had entered for CCSA softball, as I was picked to play in the softball team I had the responsibility of being on time. When I arrived at school I needed to get changed into my pe short and school sports shirt, soon after miss Watson our school PE teacher asked us to get into line of Y 8 boys and year Y 7 and 8 girls, miss Watson sent us off into our cars and we went all the way to papakura softball grounds. We unpacked the 2 tarpaulins and all the bags. We then set camp under 2 trees in the shade away from the scorching heat in the afternoon.

 

We all had time to have some morning tea before our first game so we made sure to eat then head off to our game on field 3. After we had brought all the gear we had all gotten on gloves and started to throw a ball amongst each other. After the game started we had a rough start and after a while of being battered around we had a horrendous loss of 5-1, in our second game not long after we had the same score and had a bad loss once again. 

 

A while after those horrible losses we had a big game against Clevedon we had a fast start and took a 3-0 lead which was crucial as we held off them getting any point and we needed that 3-0 win to keep us in the game. Our last game was all the way on field four which was a bit away with 5 minutes till our next game we quickly went down and played the last game. The game started quite even with us only getting a 2-0 lead, shabd who was our excellent back stop was able to tag out a 4th base forced run sealing our victory.

 

For the last thing of the day we needed to go to prize giving to collect our awards. For the placements 1st place was Finlaycent park and a place was given to… Randwick park  and for 3rd was us even though we didn’t make it to counties we were still happy. For the last award we won sportsmanship.

 

As this was the first tournament of the year we were all happy we had a placement and sportsmanship. At the end of the day we all had fun and that’s all that mattered.