My Junior year

My junior year began with football in august and the fall as usual. We had a winning streak of over 23 games going into the playoffs. That ended when we lost to Kennedy in the first round. The future second place team for 3A. Football was great, I was officially an upperclassmen and took a sort of leadership roll in the practice squad. Although I played very little and only on special teams and second string quarterback when I did, I had a lot of fun hanging out with the guys and being part of the team. I rolled along with the groups and things that I had before with a new leadership roll as the clubs and organizations editor for the yearbook. I continued to work at McDonald's and manage around 18 hours a week with my busy schedule.
A lot of my time was spent with my girlfriend Olivia Johnson. Winter I did not attend NWBI but instead worked. Spring came and I started every game on the Varsity Squad in right field. For the first 1/2 of the season I was in the top 10 in the league in batting average hitting 343. Our team had a great record. Sadly though in districts we lost after two games and did not make it to state. I jumped right back into legion baseball in June with many tournaments and such. I had the number two spot in the rotation behind Casey Locker and pitched every other game. We had some disappointing times in tournaments especially the Wally Evans and getting close to last place but things looked up in the district tournament. We entered the tournament as the last seed and fought our way. We won our first game and lost our second then won again and faced Stanwood in a winner to state game. Earlier in our legion season we had lost to them three times and they were favored to win the tournament. My coach choose me to pitch and I faced the challenge. I threw a 3 hitter and we beat them with a score of 2-1. Definitely the largest game of the year and my career. We went to the state tournament and placed 5th, which is an enormous accomplishment for our baseball program.