Thursday, June 7th - it was quite a day

The rain has finally stopped, at least for now. Things appear to by drying up and it's a balmy 7' with a few clouds. With luck we should reach 15' with a mix of sun and clouds.

What an emotion filled day yesterday was.

Tuesday evening, the boys  played their last regularly scheduled game. That was it until the play off round on Wednesday morning.  Patti and I were texting and she told me about the game the previous night. Apparently they made quite the impression with the grounds crew after losing the game. They got together in a group and sang O Canada. I was so proud of their sportsmanship and team spirit that it brought tears to my eyes.

Coach Greg (far left) watches the boys prepare to sing O Canada
at the opening ceremonies

I checked the play off schedule early in the morning and learned that our team had one last chance to play in the play off round.. They were scheduled to play the second to last team at 10:00 am.
 
We chatted off and on all morning until she sent me a text that they had lost their play off game but it was a much closer score - 10 to 9, and by all accounts it was a pretty exciting game.
I sent her a message suggesting that at least they had made another team feel good about not finishing last when she sent me a follow up message. It seems that they were watching one of the other games for a while and they got chatting with one of the dads. Apparently his wife has stage four breast cancer and they took her out of palliative care for the week, so she could watch her son play baseball in Cooperstown.

Somehow it really didn't matter that they'd finished last.

They were heading off to tour the Baseball Hall of Fame and then a team BBQ.  A great ending to a very memorable week. They can spend the next little while cheering on the other teams, with no more stress of pending games. Now that's they've made a bunch of new friends and a whole lot of great memories, they'll really enjoy the closing ceremonies which will take place tonight  at 6:30 PEI time, so I should be able to catch it online!