CT Bombers Black 12-U

Off to Brewster, NY for the annual Brewster Rockets’ Spring Blastoff.  This is one of our favorite tournaments.  Lots of friends, great competition and great facilities add up to tons of fun.

Up first was the Dutchess Debs.  Fresh off of winning the tournament the previous week, we knew we had our work out for ourselves. We jumped out to an early lead, 3-1, with timely hitting and aggressive base running.  But the Debs fought back by adding a run in the top of the 5^th inning.  Too close within a run, the Bomber girls answered with a run in the bottom half.  With time running out in the 6^th inning, the Debs pushed across 2 more runs to tie the game 4-4.  In our bottom half, we could not master enough offense to break the tie.

The second game of the day, we faced the scrappy Junction Girls’ team from NY.  This time we came out more aggressive and took advantage of any mistakes that was made by the opposing team.  Add that to strong pitching and a better defensive effort the game ended in a 10-2 victory.

The final game for Saturday was with the host team, Brewster Rockets.  After losing to them in the Adirondacks Winter Tournament, we were looking forward to this game. They lived up to our expectations, however, behind lock down pitching and tough defense, we prevailed 5-2.

Having gone 2-0-1 for Saturday, we seeded 2^nd which pitted us against a hungry Junction Girls that were looking for redemption from their Saturday loss to us.  Jumping out to an early 3-1 lead and gradually extending it to 6-1, the Bombers had to withstand a late Junction Girls’ rally; holding the lead and winning 6-4.

Next up was a team that we have not faced before, X-treme Chaos.  This game would not have no such drama as the previous game.  Behind a 2-hit shutout pitching with 10 strikeouts, the game was never in doubts.  The final score was 7-0 pushing us forward to the Championship Game.

The Championship Game was a rematch of the opening game of the tournament - Dutchess Debs vs. CT Bombers Black.  This time there would not be a tie. Stellar pitching and defense was the order of the day with each team scratching out an early run.  The game went into the bottom of the 6^th inning tied at 1-1.  Just then the sky threatened and a brief thunderstorm passed delaying the game for about 45 minutes.  Resuming the game with a lead-off single followed by a strong double to deep left center drove in the decisive run and powered us to a 2-1 victory AND THE TOURNAMENT CHAMPIONS!!!!!!

TWO CHAMPIONS IN FOUR TOURNAMENTS – AWESOME JOB!!!!!