2012 Top Gun Super Regional April 28th-29th

As you can see from the picture we finally had a great tournament. The girls played very well and ended the tournament with 4 wins and 2 losses and the BB Bracket Champions!!

 They started out Saturday by beating the AA bracket team PC Magic in the warmup game. Can't remember what the score was.

Their first bracket game was against the Lady Wofpack. The bats came alive and they won 9-3.

The second bracket game was against the C.C. Untouchables. This was a great defensive battle
but the Peaches came up just short 2-1. One timely hit would have made the difference as we had runners in scoring position several times. That team actually went on to finish second in the B bracket.

Sunday started on a sour note. The only bad game of the tournament for the Peaches. They played the Charlotte Chargers. After we took the lead 2-1 we proceeded to give up several runs on errors. Could have easily won this game but ended on the losing end 5-3.

That dropped us into the BB bracket. The girls never gave up hope though and beat the Spirit Blue 5-2 in the first game which put them into the championship game of the bracket.

The championship game was a rematch of the first bracket game with the Lady Wolfpack. The girls bunted well, hit well, played awesome defense and ended winning the championship 8-1 earning a 4-2 weekend record. They each won batting helmets and 2 free entries into 2 World Series tournaments later this year!

There were too many great plays to list them all and I would forget something I am sure. I will mention that Elizabeth had a bases loaded double in the championship game!! That was a huge hit! I am proud of all the girls.  It was a great weekend for the PEACHES!!

Now the bad news. Molly, who is by far the fastest runner on the team, broke her ankle in practice and will be out for a while. Hopefully not too long. Graycen got hit with a ball pitching today. Hopefully it isn't serious but we don't know yet.

Spring Top Gun World Series

Peaches played in the Spring World Series in Concord in the B Bracket. Once again it was a little dissapointing only because I know they could have easily won every game they were in. they had chances in all of them but it was not to be. They lost 1-0, 5-3 (I think), won 12-5, and then lost 4-1. That last game was especially hard to take because witht he bases loded Ana hot a shot to right field that would have scored 3 and might have had us off and running for a huge inning but the right fielder made a very nice play to catch the ball. The bats finally started coming around int he 3rd game and they will be just fine I think. We will get them next time. Ana and Kyndall had some nice hits as did Sarah. Molly and Jenna had great drag bunts for hits. Bubbles hit the ball but popped up a bunt and didn't get a hit this time. Everyone did something good during the tournament. I am forgetting something I am sure. Go PEACHES!!

Huntersville, NC March - Rain Shortened

      Rain Rain Rain. Saturday the tournament was cancelled and the whole thing was moved to Sunday. All the other tournaments were cancelled early but ours was the last to be cancelled (for Saturday). We left really late and were only a few miles out when we found out. If they had had it we would have been late for sure!! Rolled the dice for that one..

     It rained all the way there and then rained all the way home that evening but the whole time we were playing the weather was fine. On a side note, the storms must have been horrible around 77. Traffic was backed up and we took a detour where we found the craziest hail storm aftermath I have ever seen. It literally looked like a snowstorm hit the whole area.

I really thought I was dreaming for a minute or 2...

    I waited too long to post this one. A lot of the tournament is gone from my memory. I do remember the Peaches won their first pool game 17-1 then lost the second to a definite A bracket team 5-3. They were in the game until the end and a couple of mistakes cost them a tied as the time expired. The tournament was changed to single elimination because of the weather and cancellations of the Saturday games. We drew the AA bracket. Not too bad. Our bracket game was more of the same story of the last game. Good team that we should have done better against. We lost like 6-4 or something like that. It was a messy weekend but the team played well most of the time. All we need is to start hitting the ball like I know they can and we will be hard team for anyone to beat!!

Some of the plays and hits:

We had a girl tryout last week. I didn't get to see the practice but we haven't seen her since.

Next is April 14th in Concord. Go Peaches!!