Soles 4 Souls

Scroll down and you will see...it does not take one or two tries to get the BEST pitcture with this bunch. It takes seven. There is some re-arranging that must happen. People fall over. People talk. Carly even grew a foot for this seires of pictures.

 In the end mission accomplished! Our team giving back and sending 150+ pairs of shoes to Soles 4 Souls to be sent around the world.

Wildlife at Patriots Point

Our field is surrounded by woods and water. We have encountered a few critters. There are a few signs warning of the cyotes in the woods. There have been baby turtles and big turtles found through the years. But this was the first snake in a bush. He was small but a snake is still a snake. Now we are on full alert around the mulch behind the bleachers!

Florida Fun

No time gets wasted with our team. A break between games means we play other games.

Carly was all smiles...

...until she was the first one knocked out.

Good friends who played for Coach Hoerner and with Coach Kat visited and supported the Cougars for the weekend.

From left to right: Heather Hodges: Secondbase, class of 2005; Nora (Conroy) Pardave: Firstbase, class of 2003; Coach Kat, Coach Hoerner, Logan Pavao; Erin (Cormier) Pavao: LH Pitcher, class of 2003, mother of Logan; KD (Smith) Johnson: Shortstop, class of 2003.

Logan was the scene stealer.

We played well for him and in return he gave us big gummy smiles.

"With A Purpose"

Favorite team activity: eating

Best time to take a picture of Shades, mid-bite!

This was round 1 of food for the rookies. Notice the wall behind them; the food is on the other side!

Clearly Mendy is doing well-just look at her face!

Pam must be about to beat Kristi and Alexa, she is not even glancing up for this photo!

Rookie Road Trip

Every road trip begins with mass chaos that results in the right uniforms being packed.

Then there is the moment when Coach Kat sternly calls the freshman off the bus (mind you they were the last to arrive for the trip...)

Rookies-it is just a picture for the blog :)

And then we are off...on the road to success!

Some card games are played-Cougar Spades to be exact.

Two members of the Wolfpack watch spring training baseball as we go.

Then there are cheers for excitement about our drive.

Why the long face? We broke down :(

Kelsey missed it all while she was asleep.

And  Carly.

And Pita.

And Jen.

AJ, Court and Hill got yummy slurpees to pass the time.

But a nice man in a RV came to the rescue.

Sunny Florida next!

Kilwin's Candy Shop

How do you make Valentine's Day sweeter for our 20 treat crazy players?

Give them an hour each to work in a candy shop!



Blakeney, G, KP, Kob and Carly



Lizzy, Maria, Alexa, Kelsey

(Pita left too early for the picture!)



Kylie, KDub, Shades, Ashton and Jen



Hillary, Stephanie, Forbes, Lonni and Courtney



Coach Hoerner was all smiles as she made some DELICIOUS carmel corn!

Moose Chocolate was out again this year helping give out smiles. He got a few punches too, ask the girls who were the Moose Chocolate for a funny story each.

You know they are done their work if they are on the customer side of the counter, that means samples and a free treat to take home.

Check out Jen in the window, she approves of Kelsey's hard work :)

And Maria is in Chocolate Moose trying to get in after the cooper pot creation.

 Alexa was in heaven as the team chemist making carmel. The carmel apples were amazing!

Lizzy made sure people passing by got a sample that would lure them in for a treat!

Jen set up the apples for Alexa's carmel.

Passing of Chocolate Moose. Maria was determined to get the Chocolate into the store while she was in the outfit but he just did not fit in the door.

Shades is clearly amused by the number of samples Maria would like.

 Carmel is ready and the apples are transforming!

Kristi took over ice cream samples once Shades had had enough.

And she wonders why her nickname is Shades. What does that face say?

"Kristi and I have just had a lot of sugar and now we are up to no good."

 And to make  the day even better it was Coach Hoerner and Hillary's birthday. There were treats after practice too! Sweet!