Hello Everyone!!!!

Boy am I excited about writing this blog!

Because Michigan Softball is going to the WORLD SERIES!!! OKC BOUND!!!

Let’s talk about the games today!

First game we were beat but that wasn’t going to stop us. We had 3o minutes to come back and be ready to play! We were determined and put our lives on the line. It was our seniors last game on Alumni Field no matter what and we were ready!!

I was suppose to start, but a small injury happened and Sara started. Sara has been doing such an amazing job this season, with all the troubles I have faced, and I couldn’t be any more proud of her. She is outstanding and one of my best friends! Were down 1-0 in the 4th but we came back in the 6th! Sierra Romero got HBP and Caitlin Blanchard gets a single and advances Romero to third! Next up Ashley Lane Again!!!! She does it again!!! Shot to left center! Brings home Romero, and Blanchard scores from First!! 2-0 Michigan!! We finish it off in the 7th and the last out to Romero and out number three! Michigan Softball advances to the World Series!!! WOOOHOOO!!!!!!!!!!

Haylie Wagner

So this blog is all about the NCAA tournament and how Michigan Softball is doing! Well right now we are awesome! We have one goal each game and we are at our final step! We are going to OKC and it is seriously a moment that you cannot put into words. The excitement that everyone had when we got that final out. All of our hard work paid off. Our seniors were going to OKC for the first time, and Michigan Softball is going for the first time in 4 years! Our dreams are coming true. And that fact that I can still see Amy Knapp’s face when we got that out, how she just fell to the floor crying and the entire team was on top of her. I was right next to her and she couldn’t stop crying. I love Team 36 with all my heart and I cannot wait to practice Tuesday and head to Oklahoma City! We have the heart and desire and we never give up. We are not done yet! And we are so pumped!!

We are ready to go and just want to play again! So excited for OKC and I will keep you updated!!!

GO BLUE!

Haylie Wagner

Michigan Softball #17

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RELATED LINKS:

• Haylie Wagner’s blog on the road to the WCWS: Day 1

• Haylie Wagner’s blog on the road to the WCWS:Day 2

• Haylie Wagner’s blog on the road to the WCWS:Day 3

• Haylie Wagner’s blog on the road to the WCWS:Day 4

• Haylie Wagner’s blog on the road to the WCWS:Day 5

Canyon ace Hailey Hilburn walks her counterpart, Paige von Sprecken, to lead off the top of the second.

Amanda Dirks sacrifices courtesy runner Ashley Yoo to second.

Harvard-bound Cindy Okamoto moves you to third with a ground out.

Can YL manufacture a run right here? No. Lauren Brooks pops out to SS Paulina Anasis to end the inning.

Jezz Portillo, who has been hot for Canyon lately, leads off the bottom of the triple with a triple to the gap in right-center field. A lot of coaches would have held the runner at second and settled for a double, but Canyon coach Dan hay likes his base runners to be aggressive and he was sending her the whole way.

My Spidey senses are tingling and I sense Canyon getting a run.

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Orange Lutheran is back to applying the pressure.

San Diego-bound Olivia Sandusky leads off the top of the fifth with a single for the Lancers.

Samantha Arents sacrifices her to second.

Mater Dei shortstop Nikki Udria makes an over-the-shoulder catch on a pop up by Mackenzie Boesel. Udria has ridiculous defense. Two down.

Utah State-bound Devin Montgomery beats out an infield single and Sandusky scores from second with some heads-up base running. That makes it 4-2.

Adrianna Millan smokes a line-drive single … DENIED! Mater Dei third baseman Melissa Rochford makes the stabbing catch to end the inning.

The No. 1 pick in the OCVarsity Fantasy League Draft steps up to the plate with one out in the bottom of the fifth. That’s right, Mater Dei’s Nikki Udria. I told you before about her speed. She bunts and she’s on with a single. She steals second with another face-first dive.

Rochford grounds out, but she moves Udria to third. Two down.

Morganne Flores, another OCVarsity Fantasy League lottery pick, steps to the plate. Flores is 2 for 2 with a triple, a run and an RBI. OLu ace Jade Vcvanags gets Flores on a ground out this time.

Orange Lutheran 4, Mater Dei 2 after 5 innings.

Here’s my list of must-see blockbusters for 2013 in order of how jacked up I am to see them: 1. Star Trek: Into Darkness; 2. Iron Man 3; 3. Kick-Ass 2; 4. Man of Steel; 5. World War Z; 6. Elysium; 7. Pacific Rim; 8. This is the End; 9. 300: Rise of an Empire; 10. The Hangover Part III; 11. Fast and Furious 6; 12. Red 2; 13. The World’s End; and 14. The Wolverine.

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Top of the order coming up for Edison in the top of the third.

Cal State Northridge-bound Carissa Sherman collects her second hit of the game with a blooper down the right-field line.

Notre Dame-bound Ali Wester grounds out to short. Sherman was going on the pitch and ends up at second base.

Notre Dame-bound Karley Wester slices one to left field … DENIED!! Marina left fielder Sydnee Cable makes a shoe-string catch. Two down.

Idaho State-bound Reis Birkett hits one off the third baseman’s glove, but shortstop Sydney McCollum picks up the ricochet for a 5-6-3 play to end the inning.

Excellent defense today at The Bash at the Beach.

Sydney McCollum hits one down the third-base line … E-5!!! McCollum is on board.

UNLV-bound Sam Agamaite sacrifices McCollum to second.

Edison ace Sammy Cordova gets Michigan-bound Tera Blanco to ground out, but that moves the runner to third. Two down.

Sydnee Cable flies out to end the inning.

Edison 1, Marina 0 after 3 innings.

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Pacifica pitcher Kaley Winegarner is back on crutches from the emergency room where she had her left knee checked out and she’s in the dugout to support her team.

“I’m not going to miss my teammates in the finals,” said Winegarner, who said the doctor told her it was sprained and she should be back in two weeks. Winegarner said she will go in for an MRI next week.

North Carolina-commit Kaylee Carlson is starting for the Mariners and she retired the Mustangs in order in the top of the first.

Nicole DeWitt singled to left to lead off the bottom of the first. Brooke Marquez hits a line drive off Yorba Linda ace Paige von Sprecken and Pacifica has runners on first and second with no outs.

Bret Denio, aka the Human Softball Encyclopedia, is sounding very professional as the announcer.

PVS gets Faith Canfield and Rebecca Lee to fly out. The runners tagged and advanced to second and third on Lee’s fly out.

Ruby Rivera comes through with a two-run single to stake the Mariners to a 2-0 lead. Rivera takes second on the throw to the plate.

Pacifica 2, Yorba Linda 0 after one inning.

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It’s not a high school game. It’s an NJB game at Los Alamitos High School this past Sunday. Here is 7-year-old Adam Jaffe making an outside shot — after the defender knocked Jaffe’s headband over his eyes! Call it “blind luck” if you like. We figure Adam already has that sixth sense about where the basket is. Proud dad Brent Jaffe sent us the link to the following, and you have to watch the entire 40 seconds to really appreciate it …