Great scrimmage; Game Tuesday

The Saints wielded red-hot sticks again today -- unfortunately, they brought their concrete gloves to the diamond. Let's throw those bad boys to the bottom of the sea.

We'll keep working on that fielding. Plus, the Hubermen are a great team. There's no shame in losing to that bunch at all, so keep those heads high.

Focus points:

1) Stay down on grounders and watch the ball into the glove -- mom and dad in the stands should see the button on the top of your ball cap when you field a grounder. Remember: glove on the ground, butt down and button on the cap showing to all the coaches and fans.

2) Step and throw to the target. When we do field the ball, we must get better at stepping toward the target and throwing to the target. Remember: Don't throw from your knees. The only way to make an accurate throw is to STEP and throw. You can't step from your knees.

3) Catch the ball. When the ball is above your belly button, fingers up; when the ball is below your belly button, fingers down . Watch the ball into your glove and use two hands so that ball doesn't pop out.

Hitting Highlights:

Everybody is looking very strong at the plate, with Zach, Whit, Owen, Nino, Sonny, T-Dog and Harris going 12 of 16 with all 11 runs scored. That's awesome stick work, fellas.

Kudos to Khalid who has been putting in extra BP for the past couple of days -- he smoked one to first today that was an out, but was well hit. Hang in there, Khalid -- I smell a hot streak coming.

And Eubank's swing is coming along nicely -- he made several beautiful cuts at the ball, solidly foul tipping one of them. Keep swinging, Eubank. Keep swinging.

Fielding Highlights (yes, there were a few):

Owen made a nice play on a pop up at pitcher, trapped it and quickly threw to 1B. The runner on first, thinking the ball was going to be caught in the air by the pitcher, was frozen. Whit tagged the runner but was unable to get to first in time for the double play on the hitter (a very speedy Tyler). Very close. Heads up play by both Owen and Whit.

Whit did pull off an unassisted double play in the third. Not often we'll see this one -- Whit caught a pop up on the mound and the runner on second was running to third; Whit -- taking no chances with our throwing and catching -- raced the runner back to second and got there first for the DP.

Hang in there, guys. We're getting better every day.

Game Tuesday at Holy Communion -- Walnut Grove and Perkins -- at 5:30 p.m. Please be there no later than 5:15 p.m.