It's no fun getting up at 5:30 in the morning and making it most of the way to Spokane and THEN finding out the games have been canceled because of rain. The 12U girls made the best of it and spent some of the morning fine-tuning their batting skills at practice...
Sunday brought less rain, and even a little bit of sun, but an even earlier morning with an 8:00 a.m. game against the hosts, the Spokane Cougars. It was a battle that ended with a close loss, 6-7. This loss put the 12U girls into the Silver Bracket and a 10:00 a.m. game against the Lakesiders.
Wildfire won game 2 against the Lakesiders (10-3)*, game 3 against Crush 99 (8-1)*, and then finally game 4 against the Great Falls Selects (9-4)* to earn 1st place in the Silver division.
Kudos to Betty C for finishing game 4 with a fat lip from a hit to the face with the ball. (She struck out the next batter).
* NOT official scores... so may not be 100% accurate.
On Friday the Wlidfire black were 2-0 with 14-1 (Wa. Angels) and 12-0 (Tri-Cities Fusion). On Saturday the girls exploded for a 21-1 game against the Wa. Rattlers and a great win against the Tigard Blast (OR) 7-3. On Sunday Team Faith stopped the win streak giving the team their first loss of the tournament 4-9. They came back to win their last game 7-2 against the Walla Walla Explosion. Overall a great tournament!
The sun was shining (mostly), but the wind was blowing for the first tournament that the 12U Wildfire girls attended in the Tri-Cities the weekend of April 9/10.
On Saturday, the Wildfire girls beat the Spokane Scream (14-2) and Seattle Fastpitch Club (13-4), but went down to a well-oiled A-team Woodinville Reign Impact team (1-11). Sunday morning the girls lost to Ferndale (4-8), but then went on to win in their next two games against Team Faith/Leffner (10-7) and Team Rampage (13-4?) - (not official - last 3 games had not been documented upon this posting).
See all results (minus last 3 Sunday games, will update when we see the final).
It was a great weekend, topped off by a fun night at Round Table Pizza with the girls and their families. Thanks to Round Table to accommodating about 38 Wildfire folks plus about an equal number of Acers from the Auburn area all at once at about 6:30 :).
Best Memories:
Mikayla's fabulous "falling with style" slide/dive over 1st base on Saturday. She do ...
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The 10-U Red played in the Umpire Blue Tournament in Tri-cities this weekend (3-26 & 27) going 4-1. After winning all 3 games on Saturday they split on Sunday losing a close one 3-2 against the Walla Walla Explosion. Saturday's games wins were 17-2 VS Washington Angels, 7-3 VS the La Grande Lightning and 17-3 VS the Moses Lake Rattlers 01. After losing to the Explosion they came back and won 7-4 VS the Moses Lake Rattlers 99. Great Start Girls!!!
The Northwest Wildfire went 5-1 and won twice in the championship round to win the state 10-and-under championship in Caldwell.
The Wildfire beat the Coeur d'Alene Crush 15-7 and 16-9 in the championship round.
The Wildfire opened with a 14-0 victory over the Caldwell Burn, as Reilly Williams and Ashley Fernimen teamed for a no-hitter. The Wildfire beat the Southern Idaho Ice 9-0, then lost 11-8 to the Crush. The Wildfire beat the Southern Idaho Ice 13-0 to earn another shot at the Crush in the title round.
Williams struck out 52 in 27 innings for the Wildfire. Capriel Halliday went 14 for 19, Jenna Bassett 13 for 15, Katie Kastning 11 for 18.
See full article: http://www.cdapress.com/news/sports/article_201944c4-7a33-5c37-9379-460a0c490b1b.html
How the 16U Team performed at Nationals in the summer of 2008.
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Four local standout pitchers, three of them aces on their high school teams, are happy to join forces on a talented summer league team seeking exposure to colleges nationwide
Two of them are pitchers, the other two throwers who are quickly learning to become pitchers.
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More news from the past.
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Some history from NW Wildfire Teams in the past...
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