“Hey Dad you ready to go?” I said. “Yeah let’s go.” said my dad. We were on our way to Paris, Texas. The reason why we were going there was because I had a State baseball tournament. It was for my 11 and under All-star baseball team. We had beat Hallsville, Longview American, and Longview National to get there. Longview American had beat us out the past 3 years. But now it was time for PAYBACK! When we won that game the team went crazy. Probably because we’ve never got past District before, and it felt like we got the monkey off our back, especially since we beat Longview American in the District Championship. Now it was time for State.
I didn’t know if we could win State, because I knew it would be hard to win. Right before our first game the nerves kicked in, and I deffently got butterflies in my stomach.
Our first game was against Cooke County. We had the lead the whole game, until in one of the late innings Cooke County took a two run lead, But we didn’t get down on our selves, and we came back to win. Next we flew by Sulphur Springs in game 2, by turning a double play to win it. After that we played Center. It was neck and neck, until we took a 5 run lead. Center had one more chance to beat us in the last inning, and they tried. They hit 2 homeruns and cut our lead down to 1, be we held on and won. Next was Kilgore and we easily won that one. Then we played Mt. Pleasant. It was close until the end. They hit to win that game. Our hearts were broken. The next day we played Kilgore and we scored 10 runs on them. And before we knew we were playing in the State Championship. And guess who we were playing? Mt. Pleasant. The team that had already beat us earlier in the tournament. It was a close game all the way through. In the last inning it was 7 to 5 Mt. Pleasant. It was bases loaded, and 1 out. Then bang a hit up the middle. Seven to six now. Then all of the sudden another hit up the middle! We win State! Everybody went crazy. It was amazing.

I practically flew,
right to the candy bowl.

I stuffed my mouth,
with almost every candy bar you could name.
I could hear my taste-buds,
they were yelling yum, yum, yum, yum.

Yes I know it’s not good for you,
and you could get a thing called a cavity,
But hey every once and while it won’t hurt.

I get all hyped up,
and bounce off the walls,
and drive my Mom and Dad crazy
But the smell and taste
I just can’t resist it.