Cork Challenge Match 2008 Review

For those who don't already know, we sent a team to Cork this weekend for a couple of challenge games. We all arrived in Cork early so we had time to go for a beer run before we started, I say we all arrived early but there's always one of us that's late!! No names will be named on the blog though.

We started the first game around half 12 but despite being up for a few hours The Tribes hadn't actually woken up, we had a disastrous first inning (nothing new there then) giving up 7 runs. We came back strong though, even taking the lead for a few innings, but we ended up losing the game by one run. Whats worse is that we lost Orla to a foot injury, it turns out that she broke a bone in her foot when she turned on her ankle and will be on the injured list for at least a few weeks. Get well soon Orla and I'm sure we'll see you in the Bierhaus some Wednesday soon, crutches and all.


We all took a break and had lunch but by the time the second game came round the effects of the 3 hour trip to Cork finally caught up with us, we did rally towards the end only losing the game by four runs but we were never really competitive. The most memorable thing from that game was when Simon ran backwards from shortstop all the way to the outfield to try to catch a ball that was never for him. It was never for him because Kerry was standing right underneath the ball the whole time, or at least she was standing underneath it until Simon barged straight into her knocking the ball out of her glove! It'll probably be the last time Cork loan us a player.

That evening we went out to watch another Galway team lose to a Cork team by one score! After that we met up with some of the Cork team and had a good night, the details of which cannot be reported on a blog. What goes on tour stays on tour!

Thanks to Cork for having us down and for giving us 2 good games. A good weekend was had by all and we'll see ye again in Galway on the 13th September for the rematch.

Click on any of the images above to see the gallery of pictures from the weekend, I'll update it as more pictures come in.