Where the Hell is Monett?

So, my All Star team competed last weekend at the 12&U state fast pitch tournament in Rose Hill and talk about an emotional roller-coaster. We played Rose Hill on Friday night and got beat 23-13 which sucked because now we had to fight through the loser's bracket. Second game was agains Lyons on Saturday at 3:00pm and we pretty much kicked the crap out of them. The score was 25-5 and you know, I really felt sorry for the Lyons team since they had a total of 51 runs scored against them in two games and they were the first team out of the tournament... but I got over that. Our next game was scheduled for 8:00pm against Coffeyville, but as softball tournaments go, they were behind. We got on the field to play at 11:00pm and got done at 1:00am, and this was a really good game. We won 10-6 and none of these runs were gimmee's they were all earned. The bummer was we had to be back to the field by 12:00pm to play a 1:00pm game. Short story, we got beat 13-11 in what was said to be the game of the tournament. This gave us 4th place in the state tournament which isn't too bad but it did knock us out of going to the regional tournament... so I thought.

So yesterday I get a phone call saying that due to a Colorado team dropping out, we now were qualified to play in the regional tournament. So now I frantically trying to get my team ready to go and getting all of the forms filled out, i's dotted and t's crossed. Tonight we have a parent's meeting before practice in which we get to go over 24 pages of information and try to answer all questions. I never realized how much administrative work went into managing a girls' softball team... oh yeah, does anyone out there know where the hell Monett, Missouri is?