Crazy Busy Weekend-Brigham City Invitational 12u & DashNSplash 10u

6/21-22

Busy weekend. My son is at the All Poly football camp, Daisy and her Hot Shotz team is in Brigham City Invitational and Foi and his Boom team is in Tooele/Dash N Splash.. Can't be at all places at once and felt sad to be missing everything going on.. :(

Boom and Dirt Devil girls doing the Harlem Shake

Anyhoo.. Hot Shotz started pool play on Thursday with Sliders, Thunder and Attitude Roadrunners.  Teams we've easily beaten.  Well not that day :(.  Loss both pool games vs Att RR 2-0 and then vs Sliders 5-4.  Ugh..not a good way to stay the tournament.  Hits were a hit and miss.  Some were good some were struggling.  So was the case with defense.  All in all it resulted to our losses.  And early play for brackets on Friday.  Friday was a diff story for the team.  After being behind most of the game vs Surge2000, the girls battled and tied the game 5-5 taking it to an international tie breaker inning.  Surge added 1 to their score.  Being home team worked well in our favor.  We were able to get 2 scores in to win the game.  YAY.  What an exciting game!  S/O to Kamora who hit one over the fence for a 2 run Homerun during the game vs Surge..Nice job kid!  We were in the winners bracket til Liberty knocked us to the losers bracket.  We did meet up again in the ship and fell to them with a score of 10-0 :(.  Not a good game but definitely proud of how far they went.  Its good to have the hussle and success back from the team.  Second place out of 14 teams.  Good job Hot Shotz!!!

They received cups w/ candy and a medal for their prize

Boom were in pool play with Bullets, Voodoo and Altec Attitude a new team we've never played.  They won both pool games and #1 seed for bracket play.  They played well and had them in the winners bracket throughout the tourn.  Ship game vs Predators started late around 930.  An hour late.  Not sure what went wrong but they loss with a score of 14-5.  :(  Here we go to the IF game.  Well diff story.  They batted and hit the heck out of that ball and won with a score of 15-3.  And are the Dash N Splash CHAMPS!!!!  Yay.. Good job Boom!!!  Lets keep it going team!!

 The Champs ... BOOM!!!

Boom 1st place & TC Predators 2nd place

Dirt Devils

A few of the girls younger sisters and cousins have hopped on the softball wagon.  They too started out at the Bountiful Bonnet Ball league.  Their team did well during league played and they have made the all-star team who is known as the Dirt Devils.  Dash N Splash was their first tournament and they played well.  Losing by 1 point in the semi game to place them 3rd in the tournament.  Good job Dirt Devils!!!!  Next tournament in West Valley next week!!!

Brooklyn Tapusoa, Janie Vaenuku, Toiata Vaenuku, Alisi Tupou and Trinity Gasu

Watch out now!!!!  Here comes the Dirt Devils!!!

Wasatch Invitational in Heber City

6/14-15

Best of the West in Price was to go down this weekend.  When it was cancelled we all wanted to play and was able to get into the Wasatch Invitational in Heber City.  They didn't have a 10u age division but Boom went ahead and played.  Heber a beautiful lil town out of Park City.  And the weather was just perfect..well most of the time at least.

Games started early Friday morning for both teams.  We both won our first pool games (HS vs Tsunami and Boom vs Roosevelt Rumble 12u) which put us all in the Division I/Upper bracket.  Total of 8 team in Div I and 7 in Div II.  Teams in our bracket were Hot Shotz, Boom 10u, Thunder, Sliders, Surge 2000, Fast&Furious, Carbon Dirt Devils.

Boom didn't get too far in the tournament and played the allowed 4 games.  2 pool 2 bracket.  They were put in the difficult bracket and played some tough teams.  They were not shot out during their games so we def are proud of them.  Now back to work and prep for the upcoming 12u season when they'll be facing some of these same teams but definitely with a better outcome.

Hot Shotz girls played their game this weekend.  And just stepped up all around.  Early on they were put in the losers bracket by Surge.  Our favorite team to play :).  But they battled their way back.  Winning Thunder, Fast & Furious and Sliders in some very good games. Winning the Championship game vs Surge with a 4-2 score.  And pushing an IF game where we loss with a score of 4-3.  Its all good!!  Defense was amazing this weekend especially during our ship and IF games.  Outfielders were hussling and catching those fly balls.  Infield charged and fielded those hits to them.  Pitchers hitting their spots and doing a good darn job.  It was an wonderful sight to see.  I know they have it in them and they def proved it in Heber City.  Our bats were hot as well.  Everyone hit that ball.  S/O to our HomeRun Hitters Kamora (3) and Huntyr (1)..  SECOND PLACE finish is not bad at all.  Good job Hot Shotz.

Copper Classic 12u

5/31-6/1

Our Hot Shotz girl played in Copper Classic this year.  16 teams total with 2 brackets- upper silver and lower copper brackets.  We played our pool games vs Revolution and Surge.  It was an interesting game against Revolution.  Only b/c the pitcher threw her change up most of the time.  And maybe it wasn't intentional but thats what it looks like for us.  Or even it she threw her heat pitch it still came off slow.  We struggled bad.  And I realize that we really need to learn to be patient.. really patient.  We were able to finally get on board with 2 runs.  At the last inning they bring out their closer pitcher who was a lil faster and the girls finally was able to make contact.  Not sure thats what they intended on doing.. oh well :).  We won the game 6-2.

Surge is always fun to play b/c its such good competition.  And after the last time we played I'm sure they wanted to get us bad.  And that they did.  Well barely.  LOL.  Beating us 2-1.  It was a good game.

We played a total of 5 games the whole tournament being knocked out by Liberty with a score of 10-2.  Sad.  I know we can beat these teams.  We'll just keep working at it and get them the next time.  No pictures accept for the Silver bracket.. 

Hey..we did good in making the Upper/Silver bracket.  Thats something to be proud of.  hehe.

Inferno and Elite for the ship game with Inferno being the Champs!