What a day for a Field Day!

PS - Check out "Jack's Pics" (left column) for link to Father/Son BBQ at Ocean Beach Mon night!
PPS - Check out "Jack's Pics" (left column) for link to Field Day Pics! 

The annual Stuart Hall for Boys Field Day took place today in The Presidio's Ft. Scott, by Golden Gate Bridge. What an amazing day of athletic competition by the K-8 boys, organized by their "families" into 4 colors. In a first ever for the event, Green and Blue tied for overall honors followed by Gray and Red. The all school relay race (two participants per grade per team) went to Gray with the Lions' own Stephen E. pulling away on the final length.

However, this was all prelude to the annual Faculty vs. 8th grade Softball Game, a game almost always won by the faculty (captained, naturally by the Lions own Coachie and Coach "E"). This year, the Faculty came in decidedly nervous, knowing full well the heart of the Lions order would be this year's League Champions, and hoping like crazy that this bunch of participatory classmates would field 30+ players, keeping the Lions to only one at-bat. The Lions, captained by the 8.1 team, were joined by 24 fired up eighth grade classmates, and took the field determined to make a go of it.

Being generous souls, the Lions limited their pitching to one inning each for Andrew and Stephen E, wanting to give classmates a chance to pitch as well. The result? No runs scored against Andrew or Stephen, naturally. In the end, the Faculty did manage two runs (1 "earnedish"). And were fortunate to do so, given their only meaningful hit was a double down the first base line (just fair) by Coachie.

As to batting, the Lions saw that the Faculty's prayers were answered in the big 8th grade turnout - they were only going to get one pass through the order. So, they stacked themselves in their usual batting order to start the bottom of the first. The result? Two runs in the first (Ryley- single and Nick- double) driven in by Stephen E.- RBI single and Andrew- deep RBI Sac Fly. Sound familiar?

And so it ended, a very rare 2-2 tie, with Middle Form Dean Dennis Phillips and Science Teacher Arnaz Raj remarking with obvious relief, "that's a result this faculty can happily live with!"

Now, if the Lions could have just found a last opportunity to scrimmage the undefeated 7th grade League Champs (the Lion cubs)! Alas, it is not likely to be.

Go Lions!