The Oregon/Utah State softball games were cancelled, more for poor field conditions rather than intermittent rain. After two straight days of players and fans spending 6 hours in the chilly rain showers, well nobody really missed the third day. I think three days in a row would have done everybody in. I would have done it though. The Oregon pitchers and defense looked good yesterday, though Mississippi Valley State did not execute very well.
Instead Dennis, Susanna and I went letterboxing this morning and we found 4 out of 4 boxes. Two in the 5th St. Mkt, one by the Museum of Natural History and one in Pioneer Cemetary. Mac Court continued to be full of high school boys playing in the State Tournament, some of the parents are staying at the Bed and Breakfast.
This evening, we were invited (along with all of parents and players) out to a player's home who lives in a rural area about 20 miles outside of Eugene. Out in a beautiful area of wooded hills and meadows in the hills between the ocean and the Willamette Valley. Beautiful dinner and spread, seemed like a different world out there in the quiet country at the end of a small road. An extended family lives on quite a big piece of land, horses and barns and ponies, cows. Not sure what the income stream supports this, I will have to ask them. But Dennis and I enjoyed the trip out to Veneta and Elmira and, of course, the players and the parents that attended.
Picture is of senior UO pitcher, Alicia Cook, with her horse on her family's farm.
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