Dash N Splash 2012

We look forward to going out to Grantsville for Dash N Splash each year.. We've gone for the past 5  years on various teams and age divisions and it always is fun.  And it not just for the swimming..hahaha. 

12u Dash N Splash 2012

Our HotShotz girl had a good ol time.  I love that the girls are soo comfortable playing in the 12u brackets.  They are at a point now that its the game and they wanna just play an win.  No more being nervous b/c we are 10s playing up in the 12s.  Its all about playing the game at their best and being proud no matter the outcome.  The more and more we play 12s, the father we advance.  This tournament we placed 5th or 6th out of 14 teams.  We are soo proud of the girls.  The biggest hi-lite of the tourn is beating a very good team Xplosion.  They have always beat our team easily.  And this tourn we just played well, hit the ball well, they couldn't hit off our pitcher .. it was just a nice game that we won.  I know if we meet up again, they will give it to us good.  But for now we're gonna enjoy that our lil team beat their really good team.  hehe. 

Huntyr cruises home with no worry at all.  She hit another one over the fence.. WTG Tee.. The only 10u I know that did that in the 12u division.  How amazing.  She is such a smart talented player.  We are sooo proud of her.  Good job Huntyr!!

Our Boom girls are soo fun to watch.  They played in the 10u accelerated division.  They still and learning and growing and its great to see that the more they play tournament, the more progress they make.  I am sooo proud of these girls.  They played hard and finished 3rd overall..  Good job girls!!!

Poor Coach was beat .. Working a 3am shift and then straight to the ball park..
He 'died ugly' hahaha

Brigham City Invitational 12u

We drove to Idaho..oops I mean Brig City for this weekends tournament.  What a beautiful lil town.  We played as 12s this weekend.  There was a total of 13 teams participating. 

Pool games started on Thursday.  First game against Attitude Roadrunners.  It was a good game.  The girls played well and we won that game.
Second pool game was against Utah Rebels.  This would be our first time playing this team.  Final score of the game was 2-1 Rebels.  What an intense ending.  Good game for the girls tho.

Bracket games were played on Friday and Saturday.  For as far as we were driving, I didn't like that it was sooo spread out.  But with everyones work sched's, we didn't plan accomdations closer to BC.  Oh well.  Our first brack game was played against Syndrome.  We had never played this team either.  The funny thing is, they played shallow, infield and outfield when our team went up to bat first.  Right after they figured out our girls are hitter, everyone moved back.  Its always funny to watch.  LOL.  We won that game 7-5.  Thank goodness cause I thought for sure we'd be out by Saturday.  I'm soo horrible.  2nd game was against a very good SL Pegasus team.  No words other than, good pitcher that our bats just would not come.  Oh well.. I think final on that game was 10-0.  Wow..

Saturday morning we played Fury and Swatt.. We won both games and kept us in there longer than any of us had expected.  We were illiminated by Kaos team with a score of 9-1.  it was too bad.  But the girls had a great time.  The thing we loved about this tournament is that fact that we played teams we haven't played all season.  The girls played well in the 12u division and it showed by how far we went in the tourn.  They progress more and more.  Keep it up ladies!!!

10u Best of the West

This was a long tournament. Games were stretched from thursday to Friday. Both Hot Shotz and Boom participated. After several pool games teams split into 2 brackets. Thankfully both teams werein diff brackets hehe. HS in A bracket. Boom in B bracket.



Hot Shotz '01
Coach Gabe, Kaitlyn, Bubblegum, Coach Julie
Keisha, Daisy, Huntyr, Coach Averil
Brooklyn, Harlie, Kamora, Alyxx, Libby



Our HS girls played well and was undefeated throughout.. Our semi-final game against Sliders was intense.  The score was tied a 1 for several innings.  And they were the home team.  When time finally expired we had our last at bat and we were at the bottom of our line up.  How nerve racking.  Our lil girls came thru for us tho.  Our 6, 7, 8 batters all got on base.  Alyxx, Libby, Brooklyn.  Daisy was our #9 batter.  Bases are now loaded.  I'm a nervous reck.  She gets 2 strikes.  Finally connects with the ball with a hit over right fields head.. GRAND SLAM everyone comes home.  Score is now 5-1.  Totally awesome .. But they were home team.  Fortunately we were able to only allow them 2 more runs before ending the game.  Final score was 5-3. Awesome game.  And on to the ship game we went.. it Started @ 1030pm after a 4 hour rest.. Boy were we tired.  We fought back and forth in the Ship game as well.. it went into international tie breaker against a very good Sliders team. Final score of 7-6 to give us the lead and win.. We are CHAMPS.  i LOVE that our girls are hitting and hitting.  We have a couple grand slams and many home runs throughout the tournament.  I am sooo very proud of them all..

 



Boom '02
Shambre, Asia, Teya, Brooklyn, Dashani, Josie, Dana
Coach Gil, Lome, Janae, Bubbles and Coach Foi



It was a slow start during Pool gams.  Lost all 3 games.  Even lost first bracket game and had to fight to stay in .. They played 6 back to back games and hung in there and stayed in it to play in the SHIP game that night.. It started at 1030pm as well.. And by then the weather was cold and windy and starting to sprinkle. It was a slow game and they eventually lost to a very good UC Diamond Heels team.  Score of 7-1.  Still very proud of these young girls.  They are learning and growing and enjoying their time.  2nd place is a good start for tournament play.. Good job BOOM!!.

 

We went home tired cold and happy .. We got home after midnight .. All for the love of softball ;)

10u Copper Classic

We have playing 12u all year long and getting our butts kids .. So to keep our girls sane and boost their confidence back to 10u division we went for this tournament.  Well at least thats how I saw it.. LOL  There were 10 teams total that participated.

It was an adjustment to go back to the smalled 11' ball and the slower pitching. We all anticipated this. Our girls had a struggle at bat. And our first innings always showed it. The pitching is slower than in the 12u division which the girls have gotten use too. Fortunately everyone was able to get the hang of it and hit hit hit that ball.. We had 3 infield homerun hits by Daisy, Huntyr and Kamora.. Winning that game against UC Revolution put us in the Championship game.. YAY!!

UC Revolution played Sliders to determine who would play our team in the ship game. During the ship game against Rev, Ms Huntyr hit an over the fence HOMERUN.. It was a nice hit. First one (over the fence) in her career. Trust it won't be the last. Good job Huntyr Girl..

Our team came out Champions. Definitely a fun game. Big props to UC Rev's..they definitely have a great team and always fun times when we play them.

Hot Shotz Hoorah!!!

10u SoJo League

Our Flames 8u team eventually graduated from the 8u division and now are playing as first year 10u.. Foi decided to change the team name this year since that the owner/coach of the older Flames team is not with our lil team...  We love our Flames family.. But needed a new identity for the team.. haha  I guess!!  After maybe options and suggestions, our girls decided on the team name "Utah Boom"..

We played in SoJo League this year for spring.  It has been adjustment learning to pitch themselves and read the pitch and bat.  They have learned so much and have improved as well.. We have 3 strong pitchers on the team and are sooo proud of them .. We ended the league in 5th place out of 10 teams.  Good job girls. 

Excited for our first summer tournament coming up next month.. Best of the West watch out now..

12u Redwood League

 Kamora, Daisy, Huntyr, Tuli, Bubblegum

Spring Redwood League is over.. Its definitely been a long season.  It is our 2nd year of 10u and being that we have several World Series tournaments this year so our coach thought it would be a good experience to have our girls play 12u this year.  It was a big adjustment with the bigger 12' ball and the farther pitching mound.  Our girls have definitely worked hard.  We lost several games at first and then began to get into the swing of things and the game at the 12u level.  We ended the league playing Grantsville Toxic for championship and WE WON!!!!  Yay!!!

So proud of our girls and all the hard work they put into their game.  Each player have progressed so much and contributed in our win.  What an amazing group of girls and coaches. 

Redwood League 12u CHAMPS.. Hot Shotz Hoorah!!!

Coaches: Gabe V, Julie R and Averil E..

Players: Daisy, Kamora, Harlie, Brooklyn, Bubblegum, Kaitlyn, Huntyr, Alyxx, Keisha and (p/u) Tuli (missing Libby)

Championship game vs TC Toxic '99

12u May Madness



Looking all pretty before getting dirty..
Huntyr went to Hawaii and brought these flower sei's for the team
Thanks Huntyr!!!!

Our quest as 10u playing 12u continues.. Definitely feeling the pressure but loving the outcome!
There are some good 12u teams this tournament.  We had our work cut out for us.  It was nice to also meet up with teams we've never heard of.  Teams for out this way in the Utah County area that don't play too much...i think!  We were in a pool with Lady Utes, Utah Rage.. we've never met up with them before.  We didn't get the win, but we were definitely proud of the girls and the way they played.  They hung in there and put those teams to work.  We played our first bracket game against Hot Shotz-Jackson and got our first bracket loss of the tournament.  We didn't get slaughtered so that was a good game.  We then played the teams in our pool and won those games.  Highlight of the tournament would be our game against Evolution.. They are a 2nd year 12u team.  They are a good team.  All i remember from this team is they have big bats.  I think they thought it would be an easy win for them.  They were defintiely proven wrong.  I couldn't be more proud of our girls.  Their defense kept them in the game.  It was a back and forth battle btwn the 2 teams.  We hit They hit, Our defense was Hot their defense was hot.  It was a very exciting game.  After what seemed like a whole 7 innings (lol), we loss with a score of 12-10... yes we right there.. we were up, they were up.. It was a good game.  A moment you lose the game but are so proud of them team.. one of our proudest moments.  Our girls can definitely play and hang with the big girls.. Yay!!!