Chili Peppers

Chili Peppers

June 16th ----------- Emmalee

June 27th ----------- Hannah

 

 

 

 

 A great weekend for softball with great weather in the forcast.  Our first tournament for 2008 and we showed we were not ready in the first inning of the first game.  Three of our first 4 batters made outs and we fell behind 6-1 after two innings to a good Blue Springs Bombers team.  But we fought back and took a 8-7 lead and held on for a 10-8 win.  Second Pool game we started better and ended better and beat another Blue Springs team(SWAT) 16-6.    Our 3rd pool game against another Blue Springs team (Sharks) went great as we hit great and played great defense and won 18-0.  We took the one seed for bracket play and the first game was against the Sharks but this time they were ready to play and kept the game close untill we scored a bunch late and won 17-9.   Championship game put as against the Bombers but this time we took the early lead and kept scoring while giving up  just a couple of runs each inning.  We pulled ahead and won 16-8 to become the 8U Champions.   For the tournament we scored 77 runs and gave up 31 (17 came in the 1st innings of the games, in the other 11 innings of the tournament we gave up 14 runs).  We made several good plays in the field and everyone was swinging a good bat.  Great job girls. 

Midwest Championship Nationals:                         Skills Competition Results Five Star Drill:    Champion --Chloe , Sirena, Sarah, Hannah, Rhomey Catchers Competition:   Runner-up --- Madison  Dizzy Bat Race:   Runner-up --- Sydney Pitching Velocity:   Champion --- Hannah                            Pool Play Peppers 10 --- Stars 0 Peppers 12 --- AfterShock 0                            Bracket Play Peppers 8 --- Devil Dogs 7 Peppers 9 --- KC Crunch 6 BS Bombers 6 --- Peppers 2 Topeka Chaos 7 --- Peppers 4

 

                    Other Tournaments:

***July 19-20        VIP Finals                               @OGSA/Lone Elm

Schedule:  Saturday field  6

11:45am vs BS Bombers  (won 11-6)

1:00pm  vs EZ Freez Angels (won 12-2)

6:00pm  vs  BS Thunder (won 14-2)

Sunday:

Semi Finals vs KC Flash (won 9-8)

Championship vs BS Bombers ( won 16-6)

Pool Play: Our first pool play game was against the Landsharks. We jumped to an early 9-0 lead and cruised to a 12-5 win. In the second pool game we took on a very good Bulldawgs team. With both teams showing their defense it was a 3-3 game after 2 innings. Then they took a 8-7 lead and we could not cross the plate again and lost 7-10. The third pool play game matched us against the Hot Stix. We came out smoking and run spread them after 3 innings, winning 16-4. Bracket Play: We got the second seed and recieved a first round bye. In the second round we took on the Warriors and jumped all over them with some great hitting, 13-3 after 2 innings. Then we messed around and let the score get closer than the game seemed but won 19-16. Not one girl on our team had a strikeout. In the Championship game we got the Hot Stix who was on their third game of the day. They came out and got on us 10-4 after 2 innings. Then our defense came to life and we held them to 1 run in the last 3 innings. Our problem was they played great defense and kept us from winning by holding on for a 8-11 win. Their pitcher was kept busy by making 8 outs and was helped by the first baseman who got 3 putouts by herself. Once again we had no one strikeout so we put the ball in play, just to the wrong girl. We were probally the youngest team out there with 6 7 year olds and 2 6 year olds. Very good job girls. What a wonderful round of tournaments we played.