THURS JULY 3RD SIGHTING

Cole & John at the fields working hard!

SCRAPBOOK UPDATE

I have been notified that the scrapbooks will be delivered on Monday 6/30. I am going to take Sonya's advice and ask that everyone meet me on Tuesday 7/1 at 6pm near field 12 to pick their book up.

An alternative is picking the book up from me at work. My office is located near the DMV/ Sigman/ 138. My address is SeayCo Integrators, Inc., 2069 Lake Industrial Court, Conyers, GA 30013. M-F 8:00am-5:00pm.

If there is anyone who still may have a conflict, please email me at brandiwatson@yahoo.com.

BASEBALL INSPIRATION

A very wise man shared this with me today and if you are unfamiliar with this story/ athlete and are open to being inspired, please click on the link:

http://www.heraldleaderphoto.com/2008/05/31/adam-bender/

SCRAPBOOK PREVIEW

http://www.mypublisher.com/bookstore/book_viewer.py?d=tq%3Ey-cppl%60je%3E3369717

Before you open this book, take a second and pray that I did not misspell your child's name, duplicate a picture or screw something up.

I should have the finished product early next week. If anyone has a good idea of how we/I can distribute the books without having to drive all over Conyers, please email me!

STATE TOURNAMENT BLAISE, JAYLON, ETHAN

Blaise hits one up the midldle. Jaylon advances to 3rd and Ethan scores (watch for Ethan at the end of the video).

STATE TOURNAMENT SETH ZACHERY

Seth gets a double in the final game against the Mudcats.

STATE TOURNAMENT ETHAN BOOTH

Ethan is the runt of the Raptors. He is the youngest player at 5 years old and still has a lot of innocence about him. In this video, he hits the ball to the short stop who over throws 1st. Ethan runs through the bag and the 1st baseman then looks for Daddy/ Coach Erik for reassurance.

STATE TOURNAMENT DONOVAN REYNOLDS

Donovan hits the ball and hustles down to first.

STATE TOURNAMENT RILEY SHUBERT

This was Riley's tournament. He virtually goes unnoticed and I am not sure why because he had hit after hit this weekend. Watch the 2nd baseman when Riley slides into second. Apparently, Riley heard what Coach Dusten said to do if the 2nd baseman was in his way.

HOW TO SLIDE BY BRANDON LAWRENCE

STATE TOURNAMENT DYLAN, CHASE GRAYSON

The ball was hit in left center. Dylan fields the ball and throws to Chase on second base. There are runners on 1st and 3rd base. The runner on 3rd tries to go home. Chase throws to Grayson and...

STATE TOURNAMENT JAYLON, CHASE TO GRAYSON

This was one of those plays! A ball was hit to short left center. Dylan makes the attempt to catch, but misses and Jaylon is behind him backing up. Jaylon fields the ball and makes a throw to 3rd to stop the runner who was running to 3rd. The ball hits the runner in the back. The runner goes home. Brandon retrieves the ball and makes the throw home to Grayson. Grayson.....

4TH PLACE STATE TEAM ROCKDALE COUNTY RAPTORS

I've often said that I would prefer a close dog fight of a baseball game than watching the Raptors beat a team by the run rule. Last night was a dog fight inning by inning and one of those games that will be hard to forget. The Raptors finished their season losing to the Mudcats 30-29 in extra inning overtime. Everything these kids and coaches had was left on the field last night. Below are the Raptor coaches and the athletes they each brought to the team from the regular season.Coach Jeff, Grayson & Nicholas from the Angels.

Coach Sam, Blaise and Brandon from the Cardinals.

Coach Erik, Jaylon, Ethan and Seth from the Dodgers.

Coach John, Cole and Donovan from the Cubs.

Coach Dusten, Coach Brett and Head Coach Buz with Chase, Dylan and Riley from the Rockies.

STATE TOURNAMENT VS MARINERS HIGHLIGHTS IN PICTURES

Above: Coach Buz with one of the best umpires we have ever had.
The first fly ball to be hit in the outfield is caught by Dylan.

Daddy's proud!

Jaylon catches a high hit ball in the outfield.

Cole and his grand slam game ball!

STATE TOURNAMENT VS MARINERS JAYLON OUTFIELD CATCH

This is a quick video so you have to pay attention. During the lastat bat for the Mariners and Jaylon snags one in left field. Between he and Dylan, the left side of the field was on lock down.