Expected & Unexpected Victories

This week we had two softball games.  I expected a victory in the first one and it turned out to be better than expected, though that may not be a good thing. (more on that later)  The 2nd victory took place when I, nor K or S and another player could be at the game.  As the other team still had it's top players, I expected it to be a tough game.  The girls pulled it out.

Game 1

Playing a team of mostly 3rd graders, so I expected to win.  During the 1st two innings, with the coaches pitching, we were consistently hitting it harder than them and were leading 10-7 at the end.  It would have been 10-4, but one girl dropped three straight balls at 1st base, allowing the bases to get loaded and the inning to continue.
As we were playing against the team coached by the guy who runs the pitching clinics for the league, I knew we would be having the girls pitch at least two batters per inning.  S started the 3rd at pitcher and proceeded to strike out the 1st two batters she faced.  Considering that we have had trouble getting anyone to pitch it over the plate, this was big.  I then asked the other coach to start pitching, but he said that S should continue, since she was throwing strikes.  She then struck out the next batter to end the inning.
Unfortunately, because S pitched to more than the standard 2 batters, the other coach felt it okay to have his girl pitch to more than 2.  She was not as controlled and struck out one, then walked three straight.  The other coach then started pitching to my team and struck out a 2nd batter, before realizing that I should be pitching.  I then struck out the next batter.  Not our finest hour.
In the 4th, it was more of the same.  S struck out the 1st batter, walked the next after the 3rd strike was fouled off, got the next to ground to 1st and then struck out the next batter to end the inning.  The other coach's daughter then got to the mound and we got a single, a walk, a hit by pitch and a walk, before switching back to coach pitch and scored the max 6 runs in the inning.
In the 5th, K walked the 1st, got a ground out, then walked the next two before we switched.  We ended up getting out of that inning without a run scored and decided to call the game after 4.5 innings, with us winning 16-7.
S was great as a pitcher.  Unfortunately, neither she nor I want her to become a pitcher.  This led to some battles about attending future pitching clinics, since she is afraid that if they see her pitching, she won't be allowed to play a position (SS) during the travel team season.  They've mentioned how much they'd love to have S try pitching, because she has a strong arm and her results seem to play right into their very overt desires.  I've tried to tell her that I won't let that happen and we'd just find another team if necessary, but she's adamant about not pitching now.

Game 2

Game 2, in abstentia.  S&K and another strong player involved in school band, so we missed the game.  The remaining girls came through with a 17-14 win against a very strong team.  Wish I was there to see it, but I was still excited by the news.  I had already chalked it up to a loss, but the team held them scoreless in a couple innings (including the last) and that made the difference.  Their strongest player did some pitching for them and while she was throwing very hard, it wasn't controlled.  She hit a few batters and that caused some issues for our younger players.  They were afraid to face her.  Luckily, we limit the number of batters they face, so it was a temporary problem.