Markymoose in Big Sky: Pictures from a weekend of sports

The weekend began Friday evening with Howie on the mound in Bozeman...

and the pitch...

Howie pitched 2 innings giving up a quick 2 runs in the first, and none in the second...

The mighty Howie up at bat...

yesterday he hit a triple to left and then stole home on the next pitch. His new nickname is Jose Reyes... or maybe it should be Jackie Robinson, oh yeah he is Jackie Robin's son...

and then the venue moved to Great Falls. Friday night while Howie was playing baseball Micah's team, the Belgrade Rage tied the Butte team in their first game of the Montana State Cup tournament...

It was a very exciting soccer weekend. On Saturday the Rage lost its first game to Flathead

2 - 1, Micah scoring our only goal, a huge disappointment. Then needing to win against Red Lodge and Butte to beat Flathead, the Rage beat Red Lodge 3 - 1, and Butte beat Flathead putting the Rage against Butte in the championship game on Sunday morning....

Howie and Lucy watching the championship game... with seconds left in the first half we scored making it 1 - 0. With only minutes left in the game the referee called a penalty kick against the Rage. Micah was in the goal. The Flathead player shot and it went off Micah's hand and into the net. 1 - 1. The Rage were on fire, earlier they had a goal taken away because of what appeared to be a bad off sides call. They felt they should have won 2 - 0 already, but the reality was a 1 - 1 tie after regulation.

After two 10 minute overtimes it was still tied 1 -1. Now it was time for a shoot out. Cooper was in the goal for the Rage for the shootout. Butte took a 3 -2 lead. Then Cooper put one in against the opposing goalie and then stopped the opposing goalie's shot on him. It was all tied up with 2 more shooters to go. The Rage scored. Flathead scored. The Rage scored and then the same player who scored on the penalty kick during the game shot the ball right at Cooper... and he stops it! Belgrade Rage Wins, RAGE WINS!!!! RAGE WINS!!!! The entire team put Cooper up on their shoulders and paraded on the field. Parents were running on the field jumping and screaming. I was shaking, holding back tears, and trying to remember how to breathe, so I didn't get any pictures until the coach handed out their first place medals...