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!



Practice and camp!

Practice, practice practice.

If we move our feet fast enough we will be ready for the start of our season...

Throwing is important and making sure we get through the line fast is key!

Bases bases bases!

Spins spins spins! Get that ball moving pitchers!

 

And a fun hitting circuit!

A little camp in January to teach the future...

 

Court is 100% focused!

Pitchers hard at work.

2011 Cougar Softbal!!!

Silent Auction 2011

The arena was sold out and the crowd was hungry! 

Hungry for victory C

Hungry for hot dogs and popcorn C

Hungry for awesome auction items C

Half the team was in the concession stand and half the team was around the auction.

Lonni is a maniac on register 1. 

Maria has probably just dropped a hotdog on the floor and is putting it back to sell, don't worry weary readers, we wrap them well!

Kelsey and Kylie have alternative career paths in popcorn making if they need it (I will make sure that doesn't happen!)

The auction was a great success. Thank you to our parents who came in to help too!

Maria escaped from me in the concession stand and found the Chick-fil-a cow. I hope she eats more chicken after that encounter.

Coach Hoerner caught Shades and Lonni working hard, 16oz or 24oz drink?

This refreshing vitamin water could have been yours for one year if your bid was right!

Cougars beat the Citadel!

Concessions ran effeciently!

The auction was great!

Happy New Year!

The 2011 season kicked off with our annual cleaning days. The team worked together to reclaim the cage from mice who had left many unpleasant rice beads behind and dust off the gear that sat in the cold of December.

KDub looks like she is about to club KP (who you can't really see)

The sweepers are deciding what angle to sweep next.

  

Court is making sure each ball is worthy of the mighty Cougar bats.

  

The sweepers are attacking a mud spot that erupted on Christmas day. The cloud of dust was remarkable. But not to worry, Lonni was close by with her shop-vac to eradicate the dust.

Hillary, KP and KDub look simply lost at the amount of mice beads that were in the gray cabinet.

Courtney got help in the end from Alexa to decide which balls were hitting balls and which the princess pitchers were going to steal back.

All in all the cage looks fantastic now! We are ready to make a mess of it for the 2011 season!