Spending a few days at Geode Lake State Park near Burlington. The occasion is the district community college baseball tournament. Don's grandson Miles plays for Kirkwood. Butch and I camped here almost every year at least once but then they closed the campground for renovations and drained the lake so I haven't been here for some time. The sites have new gravel and there is a new shower house. It is the type that contains private individual restrooms--a trend in the state parks. But get this: not a single hook in the whole building. No where to put dry clothes, towels, shoes, etc. Even at the bare bones budget Iowa keeps it's state parks on, a few hooks shouldn't break the bank. The other issue is this shower house is apparently where June bugs come to die.
But as I said, we are here for baseball, and yesterday didn't disappoint. In the first place, the forecast included storms and high heat. But it turned out quite nice--a good breeze and enough clouds to make it comfortable.
Kirkwood's first game was with DMACC and stayed pretty evenly matched so that at the end of nine innings it was a 4-4 tie. This continued to the twelfth inning when DMACC scored three runs. When Miles came up to bat, the bases were loaded. One of those situations that if it was a movie, you know how it would turn out. But this was real life. Wait!--Miles hit a grand slam home run and Kirkwood won the game. Just like the movies--at least if you were a Kirkwood fan.
So today they played Southeastern Community College--the local Burlington team. They weren't able to pull off the same kind of miracle and lost 7-4. But this is a double elimination tournament so we are patiently waiting for the outcome of the second game to see if Kirkwood plays again at 5:00, or we stay at the campground and grill steaks.
Kirkwood's first game was with DMACC and stayed pretty evenly matched so that at the end of nine innings it was a 4-4 tie. This continued to the twelfth inning when DMACC scored three runs. When Miles came up to bat, the bases were loaded. One of those situations that if it was a movie, you know how it would turn out. But this was real life. Wait!--Miles hit a grand slam home run and Kirkwood won the game. Just like the movies--at least if you were a Kirkwood fan.
So today they played Southeastern Community College--the local Burlington team. They weren't able to pull off the same kind of miracle and lost 7-4. But this is a double elimination tournament so we are patiently waiting for the outcome of the second game to see if Kirkwood plays again at 5:00, or we stay at the campground and grill steaks.
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