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> I spent the last 5 days in the Northeast. The kid is graduating. I was expecting to bring her home. Her college softball career suspected to be over. I brought 5 t-shirts and a collared shirt. 4 pairs of sweatpants and my dockers. A pair of hokas and some stylish brown shoes.
After winning the Conference Championship in
dramatic fashion, they qualified for the NCAA D2 East Regional as the 5-seed, in a pool with the 1-seed. Regionals are typically Thursday-Saturday. Graduation was Sunday. WAS is the keyword. New England got rained on hard on Thursday, pushing the tournament to Friday-Sunday. In Iffy weather on Friday, the girls pulled off a 7-1 win against the 4-seed and in beautiful weather on Saturday, took down the 8-seed, also 7-1. They would go directly to the finals. Do not pass graduation. Do not collect a diploma. At least not yet.
The girls agreed before the tournament to miss graduation if necessary. Believe it or not (I couldn't) a past Senior class had decided to forego the regional final to attend their graduation ceremony. A pact was needed to avoid a repeat.
In the Regionals, you get 2 lives if you go direct to the final. We used 1 of them up with a 9-4 loss in the first game on another beautiful day. It was a postage stamp strike zone and our pitchers could not adjust. Many hits. Many runs. Much concern. But then a normal strike zone. The bats came alive. 9-0 win and the school's first ever softball Super Regionals berth and a real chance at the College World Series.
And so Monday was graduation day for the 8 softball seniors. The school did a fantastic job honoring them. The small auditorium was packed with friends and family. The stage was full of school dignitaries. It was a real ceremony. It felt real. And it was mercifully short. It was perhaps more memorable than the mass graduation the prior day.
The plan was to pack the car and bring the kid north. And although we did pack the car with non-essentials, the kid had to stay just a bit longer.
