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The average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.

The rain was sporadic as Grantsburg worked it’s way into the sectional final game by defeating Spring Valley/Plum Creek 4-1 on Friday. The Pirates had the Arm, as in sophomore Michelle Lund, working for them. The Arm struck out 13 batters and made a couple more plays in the field as Grantsburg defeated the Cardinals in the sectional semi-final game.

With that win Grantsburg moved to 18-0 on the season. Undefeated. Again. How on earth did they do that?

Didn’t they know that they lost Mollie and Jamie? How could they replace them? Didn’t they realize that Miranda and Lindsey no longer played on their team?

Yeah, they knew, but it was their time, their year. Teams always lose seniors, what were they going to do, throw in the towel. Not these girls. There were new seniors and they had an opportunity and they seized it.

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The battle to decide who would move on to state looked like it might be one for the ages. It turned out to be something less than that. They ran into a team that put the bat on the ball while also being disciplined at the plate. Grantsburg would not score a run in the game where the sun seemed to only shine on the opposition, the Park Falls Cardinals. There were errors and miscues to be sure for the Pirates, but they showed the signs of a great team by not ever giving up.

Grantsburg gave up 12 runs in that game. They had given up 15 in the previous eighteen games. What a year! They were in the final eight teams in division 3. They had a great year and carved out their place in the history of Pirate Fastpitch.

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The 2008 season is over, but somewhere on the edges of town a young girl picks up a glove and a ball and looks for someone to play catch with. The legacy of Grantsburg Fastpitch.

My name is Bob Rombach and I am the creator of We are Grantsburg. My vision with this blog and the subsequent things that happen on this website is to bring our community closer together and to celebrate the town we call home.

I plan on posting thoughts about our community and athletics on a fairly regular basis. I would love your feedback and discussion. By the way, this blog is “G” rated.

I anticipate most of my blogs will revolve around sports as that is something I follow pretty regularly, but I’ll probably stray from that path fairly often, especially now that there are a couple months until the football/volleyball/cross country season begins. I will try to be very thoughtful as I post and would hope all conversation here would be polite, even in disagreement.

A little bit about me… I have been doing radio broadcasts of area games for the past three years. I started out with my friend, Dan Hinrichs on WCMP by doing color commentary for football games. I liked it and never really thought I would do much more than that. Well, Dan moved away and I was able to fill his position at the radio station as the main play-by-play guy. So when you hear a game on the radio (usually 105.7, WXCX) it is probably me. I really enjoy what I do and hope that you get something from the broadcast we provide.

I am also the youth director at First Baptist Church of Falun, which is something I am passionate about. Along with that I also run Refuel Ministries which puts on those things outside at the Espresso Cabin and puts on the Ignite Concert in August (really exciting stuff happening this year. Go to www.igniteconcert.com for more on that).

I have a daughter, 5, who just learned to ride her bike without training wheels and a son, 2, who just learned how to throw balls at a moving target, specifically five year old girls who recently learned to ride bike.

I’m glad you made it to this site. I hope you visit often and sign up and share your thoughts with the community.