18U Gold Draw

[Sftbll4ever]

The BB-Explosion game started out as expected for the first 2 innings. A couple hits, a couple mistakes, but no damage. In the bottom of 3 it got ugly. HR, Triple, bases loaded and a series of single and doubles mixed in with some passed balls and a pickoff attempt gone bad.
I think I may have to get up early tomorrow for the 7am round.

Well lets see, dd said she is going to get up at 3:30 so that we can leave the house at 4:15 to get to the fields. You want me to stop by and pick you up? If we win our first game at 7:00 AM, we play our next game at 7:00 PM. NICE!!! Wheatfields Carne Asada was AWESOME!!!

I'll try to post some scores tomorrow.

[NumeroUno]

I saw a lot of games today but the Renegades hit better than any team I saw today..
Man can they hit

[DHBHitting]

Wow the Lady Magic Score was a shocker. One of their dads said the Renegades came out hungry and scored 3 in the first on a couple of errors. Then they got a 3 run bomb in the 3rd. All of Jolene. Ally Carda came in and shut them down.

The real problem was the offense needs to get it going when their outstanding pitching (very) occasionally falters. The best teams have quality pitching, hitting and defense.

Shocker? Why? San Diego Renegades have been a quality GOLD outfit for a long time. No shocker here what so ever. That was going to be a tough game for the Magic or anybody else that would have drawn the Renegades opening round, they are a very good club. No shocker that they can hit either, have always been a solid hitting bunch. Welcome to GOLD ball Magic! Where just throwing hard will not get it, I suspect the Magic will eventually qualify or they should at least, will be tough to do it this weekend will have to wade through allot of quality clubs.

Sorcerer-Pumas game maybe not as shocking. Sorcerer scored 1 in the first, and then let the Pumas hang around. Pumas used 2 unsigned pitchers effectively to keep their offense down.

In the top of the 7th, Pumas bats woke up and scored 5 with 2 outs to open a large lead. The Pumas pitcher got the last three outs to advance.

Sorcerer bats would appear to be quiet right now but I dont really think that is the case. I was jumping back and forth from the Batbusters game to theirs and the thing is, their offense, really was not that bad, they just ran themselves out of inning after inning with some bad baserunning. Everytime I would walk over they had runners everywhere, I would turn around to watch an at bat at the other game and then the bases would be empty. Their big gun on the mound fatigued late in the game, the thing that plagues Sorcerer is defense and it bit them again late in that game, same as nationals as a late error opened the flood gates.

Brett said the Batbusters scored all 7 runs in one innings on some solid hits and a defensive meltdown by explosion. A little disappointing that the game did not live up to expectations with the audience they had including Kelly Inouye Perez.

Batbusters are solid, as always, same ole story here. They can hit, pitch, and play defense, what else is new...

[All-American SB]

Have some more Friday scores.

AP over Pride
Cruisers over Jets
Choppers over Case

[NuNu's Dad]

Shocker? Why? San Diego Renegades have been a quality GOLD outfit for a long time. No shocker here what so ever. That was going to be a tough game for the Magic or anybody else that would have drawn the Renegades opening round, they are a very good club. No shocker that they can hit either, have always been a solid hitting bunch. Welcome to GOLD ball Magic! Where just throwing hard will not get it, I suspect the Magic will eventually qualify or they should at least, will be tough to do it this weekend will have to wade through allot of quality clubs.

Hey, you're preaching to the choir. I know the Renegades have a good program, but most teams outside of SoCal think it is all about the Firecrackers, Batbusters etc. If you asked most Recball 10U/12U if they have heard of PQ Lightning, they have but don't know alot of those girls end up on Renegades among others. Likewise Hart, Thousand Oaks, Simi Valley, WAGS, & Camarillo All Star teams are well known, and those kids end up on Choppers, Diamonds, Pumas and a few others.

My point was there are ALOT of good teams in SoCal. Maybe not as talented as the Elite teams, but those are the teams that give great competition and help the Batbusters/Firecrackers get better week in and week out. Up north you have a much shorter list of good teams. Lady Magic, Sorcerers (both), Grapettes, AASA, Sting and a few others.


Note: AASA just beat the Pumas.

[RudeDog]

Worth FC over Strikkers Gold
So Cal Athletics over RR Gold in ITB
Minors Gold over Nor Cal Shockers

[GoldTBfan]

AASA & Sorcerer - Pete won.
Anyone with any other results?

[watcher]

Pumas over Corona Angels (Phil)

[NuNu's Dad]

Some unposted results:

Bustos Elite defeated Norcal Shockers
SD Breakers defeated RR Gold
Team Anderson defeated SoCal Breakers
Pumas defeated Corona Angels Phil
Firecrackers Ristow lost
USA Elite defeated Virtue

[RudeDog]

Explosion Gold over USA Athletics