Personal Narrative: The Softball Team

It was a warm April afternoon. Everyone on the softball team was dismissed at 9th period (2:15 p.m.). We waited for our bus to come and take us to Upper Perk. When everyone loaded the bus, you can smell confidence in the air.

As the 7th and 8th grade teams waited for their coaches and the bus, we sat and talked about how bad the hallway smelled because it was the hallway to the boy’s locker room. When we saw our coaches we loaded the bus with the equipment and ourselves. When we arrived at Upper Perk, 15 minutes later, we unloaded and walked to the field. Since I was co-captain and our captain was out with a concussion, I was leader and led the team out to right field for stretching. While we were warming-up, Upper Perk’s team walked out. As soon as they started to stretch, the teams started to have a “which team is the loudest” contest. I stopped us and we started to throw the ball around. …show more content…
I was practicing grounders and pop-flies since I play infield, third baseman. 20 minutes later we went to the ump. and listened to the rules. We then started the game. Since we were the away team, we batted first. The coach threw me out first to bat because I have a higher batting range. As I was getting a helmet and my bat, I was watching the pitcher to see how see pitches. I walked up to the left-side batting box since I am left-handed. When the pitcher pitched the softball I swung and hit a double straight down between third baseman and shortman. That got my team pumped up and