Awards Night

The softball awards night will be on May 27th , 6:00 Wed in the cafeteria. Bring your favorite dessert to share. Also Lexi, Rikki, and Chelsey all made the 4A allstar team. The game is Friday at 3:00 at the Valley complex if you would like to go.

Banquet

We are going to have the banquet for softball this year on Friday the 18th of May. We are going to have a bring your favorite dessert night. We will give out letters and have a lot of fun.

Orem is canceled

Orem can not get their field ready to play on. I offered our field but it is their senior night. So they don't want to come here for that, and I don't blame them. But it is all ready rescheduled for Thursday. The sophomores are going to play wed in salem a double header to finish out their tournament

Swing 4 life

I don't usually like to put pictures on this blog, but I felt like today was a special day. I that the swing 4 life is probably one of my favorite things. After a no show on the bus today, and a late start to miss our hitting time. I will admit I was a little frustrated. I called Kathy the lady in charge to tell her our situation. She started this and now it is done all over the country.. She said Jodi I understand, but please come... I know how important it is and so we loaded up in suburbans and headed out. We didn't take the pitching machine due to lack of room, and missing our time. When we arrived Kathy and the others rolled out the red carpet. They were so excited to see us. Giving us all a t-shirt and wanting us to hit, and write our names for the drawing. It was great. Alta high school stepped up and said Use our machine and bats, and take your turn please hit. These girls were letting us use their $300 bats. Not even a worry. SO the girls stepped in with borrowed equipment and took a few swings each. I was proud of how our girls behaved, and acted. Our senior were on the radio. They were interviewed by Amy Donaldson who is the main writer of girls prep sports in the state of Utah. She was so glad when we came and said she was waiting for us. The senior did a great job, telling about the pink game, auction, and fundraiser we did and what we did with the money. Then of course talk about the team and region did come up and they were so cute.. I was proud and you should be too. They then lined us up for a parade of teams. I will admit it isn't as fun in the gym as it is outside on the ball field. But it worked for the weather. The girls came through the curtain and they announced Payson High School, and the girls cheered. I will admit I got the cold chills and teared up a bit. I was proud. I don't think that the girls realize the impact and importance of this cause. But as Brent, Fox and I were sitting there. I told them with how many girls we have and coach. Some of them will have breast cancer. I hope they don't but odds are one or more of them will, and maybe with what we are doing we may be able to help save one of them. So thank you for your support with the pink game, and this weekend your daughters were great, and I am a proud coach...

Softball Update

I have been working on rescheduling with Manti. They start state on May 1st and I just don't think we will be able to get the game in. Sorry. But here is an update. Remember that swing for life is this Friday the more parents that want to come the merrier.
Softball UPDATE
April 28th - Timp view
April 29th @ Provo bus leaves at 2:15
May 1st @ PG bus (JV, Varsity) @ 1:45
May 1-2nd- sophomores @ Salem TBA
May 4th- @ Orem @ bus @ 2:00
May 5th- Mt. View
May 6th- @ Timp View bus @ 2:00

another rainout

Whats up with this in the 12 years of coaching I am not sure I have had to reschedule as much as I have this year. But once again for those of you who didn't brave the weather at Provo, you are lucky. I am still trying to dry out. But when we returned home to Payson our fields looked great. Jeremy had them ready to go in case we could talk the Provo team into coming to Payson. But no luck. We are rescheduling this game for the 29th. We will try and brave Provo again. We will take the sophomore team that day and they will play at 4:00 and then the JV will play after. We didn't have sophomore officials today, and their field was all ready to wet to play on when they called to move ours up earlier.
Thanks for being patient with the scheduling. But at this point in time we are playing three games a week pretty much.

Make up games

The Provo rain out from today will be on April 14th at Provo, the Timp View Rain out will be played on May 6th. Lets hope for no more rain outs, I don't know where we will fit them all.