Warriors in MESQUITE

We just returned from WARRIORS final tournament of the season. We've been saving and planning and had a grand ol time there with everyone. Our team arrived late afternoon on Thursday. Started our weekend off with dinner at Eureka with the whole team and family supporters. Grateful for generous people who made it possible to eat some good ol' casino buffet and not have to pay for it...Love it! Hehe.  We then all headed over to Virgin River for some night swimming and good ol bowling.  What a fun way to start off the tournament weekend..  Had to get the fun all in before it was softball time. 
There were 2 teams from Hawaii and 2 teams from Utah.  2 other teams backed out last minute...BOO them.  But it was still a fun tournament.  Hawaii came to play.  They do softball all year round and it totally showed.  They were good.  Infact so good, we loss to them both and put us in the losers bracket. 
We made it to the semi-final game beating out DC Demise from Bountiful to determine who would play the undefeated Hawaii (HanaPa'a) team for Championship.  So once again we were gonna meet up with Hiki No.  Earlier they barely beat us 9-8 in one of the most innings played game...7 to be exact.  During this game though, our girls were determined to win.  And you could tell by how well they played.  Coach Ibrahim made adjustments to our outfielders and BAM we stopped them and won that game 14-8.  It was AWESOME  and at that point didn't care if we loss the Championship game.  That is how awesome that win was.  From the beginning we were on top and held them.  Girls defense and offense was on point.
Championship game we played our game.  But Hawaii played even harder.  We loss the game and took 2nd.  But it was one of the most fun games we had.  Being that Hawaii coaches and players showed such good sportsmanship.  We love the Hawaii teams.  Every game they lei'd each girl and gave them a lil hawaiian souvenir or lihi-mui candy.  It was sooo fun and the girls loved it sooo much. 
I totally have to say the Hawaii teams made this tournament one of the best.  They knew they were good but always showed good sportsmanship.  They were sooo nice to share their spotlight with our team...  After the game we talked and joked around with them..  What an awesome way to end of nice tournament.
We had such good support.  So grateful for our WARRIORS FAMILY.  Definitely a good way to end such an awesome softball season.  Now I can relax and enjoy the remainder of my son's football season and hopefully get some workouts in.  I need it..  Until next season....PEACE!!