CANBERRA AUSTRALIA - 25 October 2000 - This week is a short
update. Most of Mike's thoughts this week were on baseball. His
Under-12's won prettyhandily on Saturday. On Sunday, Mike started in
center field for the B-Grade team. They won by a couple runs when
Woden closed the gap in the last couple of innings. Mike had a chance
to get in the A-Grade game when the third baseman's back tightened up
but his contact fell out and he didn't have his shoes on as he never
thought he'd get into the game. Mike missed an opportunity to play
more ball. The A-Grade won anyway. Tonight (Wednesday) Mike took part
in a game against Under 16 All-Stars from the ACT. The team wasn't
quite as good especially the pitchers. Mike started this game at
catcher where he will probably be next Monday as the usual catcher is
playing in a tournament out of town. Against the weaker pitching, Mike
got his first hit in a game type situation. He hit a double to left
field but got caught out on a close play when he lazily went back to
second after a big turn. He was not happy with himself. This hit came
right after he'd made a nice scoop and tag on a runner at the plate in
the top of the inning.
Here ends Mike's twenty fifth week in Australia.