The big baseball weekend

We'll start with softball (it makes sense, honest.) Corydon's 8U softball girls won only one of three games at the state tournament in Salem and bowed out Saturday, but we'll post some pictures of their play in a day or so. In the spirit of full disclosure, I should note that my granddaughter Emily was one of the Corydon 8U All-Stars. I didn't get to go watch since I was at home trying to sit very still after medical stuff the day before, but Emily's brother Zachary went to take pictures for us.

Meanwhile, here in Corydon, the 13U Corydon All-Stars whipped North Harrison, 25-15 for the district championship. More like a football score, as one coach noted, a TD and a field goal difference. We don't have pictures of this past weekend's 13U games because I was sitting still and Zachary was busy with the 8U softball and also the 11U state championships. The 13Us play in the state championship here this weekend, though. We'll cover that tournament.

But we do have pictures of the 11U state tourney, where Corydon's team unexpectedly made it to the final game and captured runner-up honors for themselves. Their best effort was probably the championship game of the losers' bracket, when they beat N.Harrison 9-6. We're posting pictures of that game today. The Corydon boys did not finish first or second in the district tourney, but got to be in this weekend's tournament as the host team. Floyds Knobs won the district and North Harrison was runner-up. After Sunday's win over N.Harrison, Corydon lost the state championship, 14-5, to Floyds Knobs. Corydon players and coaches seemed to be disappointed, but state runner-up is an achievement to be proud of, particularly when you do better than expected.