DD played in a tournament this past weekend as a pickup player for our '08 team (she is '09). Saturday bracket games were canceled due to rain/lightening. Tournament shortened the games to 65 minutes and squeezed the entire tournament into Sunday. Unfortunately we lost our first game in a tie breaker and had to fight our way thru the losers bracket. So proud of the girls as they fought thru the next 5 loser bracket games to the championship game (7th game of the day for us). The 5th game was another tie breaker was a nail bitter that went into triple inning tie breaker (6 innings total!) doubling the length of that game. Unfortunately we lost 1-0 in the championship game. Opposing team had played 3 games before the championship so they were way more rested. Learned a valuable lesson on not losing early in the tournament. Our girls were exhausted by the end. Final game didn't end until 9:45pm or so. Girls had been up since 5:45 am as we had an 1.5 drive. So door to door girls were up from 5:45am to 11:45pm on a Sunday night! Not very conducive for school the next day for a 9 year old!
What shocked me was some of the teams we faced were going thru the tournament with just one pitcher. Some of these girls had to pitch 4 or 5 complete games in just one day. Is that irresponsible on the coaches part? We had two primary pitchers that were alternating. 2 games in a row each to start and then alternating every other game after that. If needed we had two back up pitchers that we could use in a pinch.
What is the most games your team has played in a single day? How many pitchers did you use?
What shocked me was some of the teams we faced were going thru the tournament with just one pitcher. Some of these girls had to pitch 4 or 5 complete games in just one day. Is that irresponsible on the coaches part? We had two primary pitchers that were alternating. 2 games in a row each to start and then alternating every other game after that. If needed we had two back up pitchers that we could use in a pinch.
What is the most games your team has played in a single day? How many pitchers did you use?