Carolyn Droke

Since none of you know Carolyn Droke, I will explain who she is and what happened to her. On Thursday of last week, my softball team was playing a NK team (North Kitsap). Now we were in the lead, 9 to 6. We were on a roll, hits, hits, hits! But unfortunately, Carolyn was on 3rd base and was ready to steal home. The batter up was the other Carolyn (she might spell it differently) and a wild pitch came her way and sped behind her. Carolyn D. she prefers to be called C for some reason of the unknown. She started running towards home plate and as the catcher threw the ball to the pitcher at home, Carolyn D. (C) was sliding and was called safe, a second after Carolyn screamed with pain, and the Ump. called a time out, I had just stole to third when it happened. Everybody ran where C was crying in pain, finally the Ump. called everybody into the dugouts, we all ran in with confusion asking questions like: “What happened?” “Is she ok?” “This can’t be happening again!” What my teammate meant by that is that last year my best friend Caitlin Maguire was pitching in our play off game and we were down by a little. The Racers best hitter, Erin Kinny was up to bat and she hit a line drive straight to Caitlin’s forehead. We were all rushed of the field and into the dugouts, as I was weeping because I have known Caitlin since we were like, 2 years old. The ambulance came on the field, and she was carried off. As Caitlin was being carried away our team decided to chant, “we believe in you 08, we believe in you Ugh!” Till she was inside the ambulance. Unfortunately we had to carry on with the game. We lost. So when we were called into the dugout this time my friend Kyra and I started crying because it reminded us of Caitlin. And as a tradition we chanted, “we believe in you 12, we believe in you, Ugh!” Then we continued the game and we won. This time we were playing the NK team and we won 13 to 5.