Wildcard: Central Softball

Softball season has always been my most enjoyable sports season.  I think it is because the weather is getting nice and the end of the school year is coming near, or it may be that we know how to have fun as a team.  I love soccer season, but I take it so seriously that sometimes it is not fun.  I always have fun playing softball because win or lose I am just there to have fun.  Of course I want to win, but honestly I am not going to be devastated if we do not.   Our softball coaches always let us have fun and goof off at practice which makes it even that much more enjoyable.  Most of the time Coach Stout and Coach Ardise are the ones that start the jokes and make us all laugh.  I love how we can laugh and joke around, but still have intense practices, be a good team, and win games.  We have always been pretty good in the past, but this year we have been off to an exceptional start.  We are 5-0 right now and we are ranked ninth in the shore.  It is pretty crazy that we are doing so good because this year we have been having the more fun than ever.  We play games at practices and we always get very competitive.  My team is the underdogs so we always have to create little tricks in order to win.  We normally don't win, but we always have fun.  There is also a team joke about My Little Pony's.  We have a small pink pony named Jen and every practice I put her in a small hole in my glove.  At first our coaches thought I was nuts, but they soon got used to it and now we constantly joke about the pony. There are many things that make our team crazy, but I think the icing on the cake this season is our prank war.  After Courtney and I tricked the whole team last year with our prank about the homeless man in the shed, the rest of our team decided to start a prank war.  Now most coaches would not approve of this prank war and I did not think they were going to, but they did not seem bothered by it so it kept going for a while.  The other day at practice we were just getting our equipment out of the shed when all of a sudden our three coaches start running after us with water balloons and silly string.  I do not know of many coaches who do that, but that is why I love playing softball.  It is always fun and exciting and you never know what is going to happen next.  I'm sure this prank war will continue throughout the season and i just hope that we can continue to win.  We have been doing extremely well so far beating good teams like Toms River South, Pinelands, and Jackson Liberty.  Hopefully we can continue to win and continue to have fun while we do it.  I really think that we have been so successful because we are having fun and enjoying ourselves playing softball.