Success story!

[At my instigation, Karen Kimple has written this guest post about a great team victory that includes Connor's younger brother, Carson.]

Although this isn’t directly related to the Braves, I thought I would share some good baseball news with you. This past weekend the Jr. Dukes Baseball U-10 Team won the Cudahy Baseball Tournament and became the first Jr. Dukes Baseball team to win a tournament! The team includes Connor’s younger brother, Carson, and is coached by Darren Miller.
The team won their first game on Saturday morning by beating the New Berlin Magic 7-0. Scattered showers interrupted their Saturday afternoon game against Southwest. The Jr. Dukes were ahead by quite a margin when the skies really opened up and the umps decided to finish that game on Sunday.
Early on Sunday afternoon, the team resumed the game and beat Southwest to advance to their next game. I can’t remember which team they played, but this was a very close game which resulted in a 1-1 tie (Carson scored the only run). They had to play a California Rules tiebreaker. The Jr. Dukes smacked in a number of runs to win the tiebreaker and advance to the championship game.
The championship game against New Berlin Magic was a real nail biter, with our team down by something like 5 runs in the 3rd inning but the team rallied. They believed - they made plays, they got hits, and they really supported each other as a team. It came down to a 6-6 tie in the 5th inning. One of Carson's teammates hit a single that allowed the runner on 3rd to run home and score the go-ahead run. It couldn’t have been any more exciting and we delighted that our boys were able to bring home trophies!
-- Karen Kimple