Xavier - Baseball - 2014

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Xavier's Coach Pitch team had a tie Thursday night and today.  In both games, Xavier was the lead-off batter.  There were "exhibition" games, which don't count against the season record, last Saturday.  Xavier was very excited that on Thursday "the scoreboard was turned on".

Cole's State Gymnastics Meet

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Above:  Cole's Rings routine from the Level 6 State Meet on Sunday, March 23.  He scored a 10.6 - his highest score ever.  Oh and he was in the urgent care clinic taking IV antibiotics on Saturday for a sinus infection. And he took a dose of ibuprofen about 15 minutes before this routine because of returning fever- which probably explains his worst ever score two events before this.  Thankfully, his rotation had high bar, one of his strongest events, as the second event while he was still fresh.   He has been working hard toward a 10.0 this season and his H-bar routine here was his second 10.



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Evan - Baseball- 2014

 

 Pitching, catching, scoring:  Evan does it all.  Today's opposing coach even pointed out to his team "That's a good catcher," loud enough for me to hear from our bleachers. 

Elevenses!!

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THIS IS MY GOLD MEDAL HIGH BAR ROUTINE AT SPINER THE WEEKEND OF THE TWENTY THIRD!!!!!!!! IT GOT ME AN ELEVEN.ONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Metroplex Medals & Longhorn Love

This is one of the awesome Texas shaped

 medals that I won at the Metroplex meet.

    The weekend of Valentine's day we drove to Fort Worth so that I could compete at the Metroplex meet. While we were there, we went to the Fort Worth Stockyards to look around and watch the daily cattle drive.

This is a picture of me at the beginning of my fifth place high bar routine.

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                         On this rings routine I actually tied my teammate for eighth place.

Warm up on pommel.

Competition on Pommel!!

Second place team out of about thirteen teams!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is a picture of Xavier trying not to have his taken at the stock yards.

 That little stinker!!!

   The day before the meet, Valentine's day, we went out to watch the daily cattle drives at the Fort Worth Stockyards.

                                                              The cattle drive!!!!!!!!!!

Brrrr!

Niagara Falls partially froze over in January 2014 as you can see in this picture by Aaron Harris published by Reuters.  (BTW, I understand that a few pictures circulating the internet are not authentic and/or not from 2014.)
Below is a picture from our summer trip with some of us down on that same fenced area that you can see in the top right of the first picture.  Look for the bright orange shirt in the middle of the picture.  That's Evan with his brothers and dad behind him.

Houston National Invitational Gym meet

Sunday we went to Houston to compete at Houston National Invitational with approximately  41   competitors in Cole's age group and  41 competitors in Evan's. Here are the results.




Evan with his new Coach on the left and Ashton, on Evan's right, who has been training him all fall.

 


Here is Evan's floor routine

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Cole getting last second tips from new coach Ali al Asi.

 

And Cole's Pommel routine:

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The boys received medals in the following events:

Cole

 9th place Rings

10th place High Bar

14th place on Pommel Horse

19th All Around (51.0 points)

11th place team finish

Evan

11th place Rings

12th place High Bar

19th All Around (56.5 points)

 10th place team finish