Spring Classic - Kaysville

 Kaysville was the location for this weekends tournament .. It is end of April and we are still in winter mold.  Well close to it.  Its been cold and rainy all weekend long.  April showers was def in full effect !!!

That did not stop the games from going on .. Our Hot Shotz girls played in 12u division with 11 other teams.  Some we have beat, some we haven't and some new.

Our record throughout the tourn was 1-3. It was a humbling experience to make the walk of shame early in the tournament.  Actually I think we were the first team to be eliminated from the tourn .. OUCH!!

It was definitely what we deserved this tournament.  We had some highs with a some good plays and good hits but overall our defense and bats just did not come out today..  Live and Learn.. Move on and bring it next time around.

These are some talented girls and your allowed to have off days..  Get better and get out there and show them what we got.

Spring Classic
Kaysville, Utah
Barnes Sportsplex

Big shout out to Kamora on her pitching .. This is her first season pitching and is doing an awesome job.

Also big s/o to our homerun hitters .. Huntyr Ava (over the fence) and Ashton Ekins (grandslam).  Good job girls!

Hot Shotz Hooray!!!

Inferno vs Elite in ship game with Elite being champs!!

Salem Spring Friendly

We drove to Salem Oregon as one of the girls said. haha. Really it was Salem Utah. in farm land in the sticks. From this picture it's looks like a nice day for some softball .. But really it was cold and windy but games must go on .. They said it would be in the 60's today.. Oh well. This was the official start of tournament season for the girls. Nice to get their feet a lil dirty .. They went 2-2 beating Rampage and Hive. Losing to Voodoo and Hive. Good job ladies ..

Big shout out to the JOSIE and DAISY who hit (in the park) HOMERUNs and during the game they won against Hive .. Which is a big deal .. Against that team of course lol.. Goooo BOOM!!!

Rokrz Spring Kickoff - Roy

3/29-30

This was our first official tournament in Utah this season. We finally are having spring like weather after what seem to be a very long winter. Although the nights were still very cold.

Eventho this was a 12u tourn, they didn't get a good turn out from 10u so there were several 10u teams playing as well. In our pool we had 10u Rampage, 10u Hives and 12u Thunder Sandoval. We won both pool games but only winning with a score of 1-0 vs Thunder. Yikes.

Bracket play started at 930 Satirday morning which meant we had to be there at 815. My least favorite part of softball lol. Girls were playing and beating teams like Gforce, Ice, Thunder and advancing to the championship game against Spanish Fork Inferno. We were undefeated so Inferno had to win twice to be Champs.

First game had us taking an early lead. Girls were doing well. But so did Inferno .. They passed us up hitting the crap out of the ball. We had to play catch up and just couldn't pull it out. Final score 9-8 Inferno. Now on to the IF game we go. This time they take an early lead. At the final innings and our last bat and chance to win.. 2 outs and an attempted 3rd out and Inferno leaves the field and celebrate their win. However their suppose 3rd out was called safe and as Inferno is off the field looking confused as to what is going on, Alyxx runs the bases and scores the tying run. Which was protested and later ruled good. So now on the international tie breaker. We are home team they are up to bat with runner on second. 1 and 2 out walk the next batter now they have 2 on base. Last out strikes out and it is now our turn. Mora is on base for our team. 1 out, walk, walk, walk, bases loaded Oaklee is up. Hits a good one to LF that is caught 2 outs. Ashton up and gets walked and in walked the winning run of the night and the Utah Hot Shotz are the tournament CHAMPIONS...yay!!!!

So proud of these girls and coaches. Well played team.. Big shout out to our (in the park) HOMERUN hitters of the tournament ASHTON, HUNTYR and KEISHA .. Hot Shotz Hoorah!!!!

14u League Redwood

One of our leagues this season we are playing up in the 14u division.  We aren't expecting to win games but after such good games last nite during our first 2 games, I think we may actually have some go chances.  LOL.  Girls played well.  I love that our young girls are intimidated or at all scared to play the older teams.  They just go out there, play their game and have fun.  And also messing around and dancing in the dugout.  Here's some recaps of our games...

Ut HotShotz 12u vs Misfits 14u

Ut HotShotz 12U tops Misfits in back-and-forth affair, 8-6


Ut HotShotz 12U took the last of four lead changes in a back-and-forth affair against Misfits, securing a 8-6 victory on Wednesday at Redwood.
Ut HotShotz 12U took the lead in the second inning and held on for the victory. Ut HotShotz 12U scored on an RBI double by Daisy T off #10, scoring Shakel A.
Ut HotShotz 12U held off Misfits, as Misfits was unable to overcome a five-run third inning deficit.
Misfits scored on an RBI single by #5 and an error in the third inning and an error in the fourth inning. Unfortunately, Misfits wasn't able to take the lead back.
Huntyr A went a perfect 3-3 at the plate for Ut HotShotz 12U. She singled in the first and third innings and doubled in the fourth inning.
The top of the first saw Ut HotShotz 12U take an early lead, 1-0. Daisy started the rally for Ut HotShotz 12U with a single. A groundout by Katelynn R then moved Daisy from first to second. Huntyr singled, plating Daisy.
It didn't take long for Misfits to respond as it scored three runs of its own in the first. Misfits scored on a two-run triple by #12 and an RBI single by #7.
The lead was Ut HotShotz 12U's to lose after second inning. More runs came home on a groundout by Harlie V and an RBI single by Shakel.
Ut HotShotz 12U added four more runs in the top of the third. A bases loaded walk scored Kiesha W for the inning's first run. That was followed up with a steal of home by Huntyr.

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Ut HotShotz 12u vs Bad to the Bone 14u

Ut HotShotz 12U falls to Bad to the Bone 5-2 in spite of M's performance


Kamora M did all she could to give Ut HotShotz 12U a boost, but it wasn't enough to get past Bad to the Bone , as Ut HotShotz 12U lost 5-2 in four innings at Redwood on Wednesday.
Kamora got on base two times in the game for Ut HotShotz 12U. She singled in the fourth inning.
Bad to the Bone went up for good in the first, scoring two runs on a two-run single by #20.
Ut HotShotz 12U got one-run rallies in the first inning and the fourth. In the first, Ut HotShotz 12U scored on an RBI single by Katelynn R, bringing home Daisy T.
Bad to the Bone brought home one run in the third inning, and matched that run total in the fourth. In the third, Bad to the Bone scored on an RBI single by #23, scoring #8.
One run in the bottom of the fourth helped Ut HotShotz 12U close its deficit to 5-2. A walk by Harlie V sparked Ut HotShotz 12U's rally. Finally, #16 got Daisy to strike out to end the game.

Vegas .. Oh yeah!!! St Patty's Day Tournament

3/16-17, 2013

Around this time last year we made our first trip to Vegas.. It will be a trip we won't forget. We did horrible lol. It's the truth.. it was still good for us b/c from then on out our lil team went to work.  Working hard to get better all around..
This year we went again. Better prepared but still skeptical about how well our lil team would do.. We had such a good 2012 year after our visit to Vegas that we had high expectations this year.  And I am happy to report that our team did a really good job.. Way better than last year for sure ;). We had our struggles.. Some games we could have won, others we had no chance. It was fun. The girls played well.  girls played their best and we finished in the top 16 teams out of 60. With a record of 3-4. We played 2 more games than last year where we loss all games ;(.

Special shout out to Kamora who hit a (in the park) homerun.  Good job Mora!!!

We are so proud of this team. They really do know how to play and have fun. Great job ladies..

Athletes are Born, Champions are Made

This group need to get some Hot Shotz gear already.. LOL

Lunch provided by Coach Julie's parents .. They are sooo good to the girls.

Thank you Schmidt family !!!

Hot Shotz "Harlem Shake" .. Silly girls!!!

Our team in Las Vegas

Top Row: Coach Julie, Huntyr, Keisha, Kamora, Oakley, Katelynn, Coach Averil

Bottom Row: Coach Bill, Aislyn, Tylor, Alyxx, Harlie, Daisy



Batting Practice

Yep.. we are already at it.  Even with snow and cold winds we gotta get our softball fix in.  :)  Right when the holidays passed, softball began.  2 practices a week for next several months eventhough our first tournament isn't until March.  A bit over doing it..lol.  Only way to stay in shape and learning more.  Got a few pics of the girls during batting practice on Wednesday.  Girls working with their batting coach David Fields.  They've been working with him since last year and they are doing so well with him.  It really does make a difference to know the basics and correct way to bat.. Home Hitters right here!!!!  Hot Shotz HooRah!!!  (Daze, Mora and Tee..gotta get BG next time)
 

10u Desert Falls - St George

Can you tell we have softball fever?  Never can get enough of balling.  It was originally planned that Mesquite was the last tournament for the season.  Last minute some parents wanted to do St George.. So on to St George we went with most of our girls..

There was a total of 9 teams there.  Director hadoriginally said 15 teams were coming.. IDK what happened to the other teams.  But Angels '01, Predators, Hive, Nationals, Voodoo, Avengers '01, Evolution, Revolution and BOOM all showed up to play.

It was nice that it started later in the evening so most of us didn't head out til Friday morning.  The weather was pretty nice as well.  Still very cold but no rain or snow.  Yay!  We had a pretty easy pool but you still don't wanna underestimate any team.  We won those games and played our first bracket game against Angels which we loss 2-1.. :(  Still good that they kept them at a close score. 

We battled and played our way in the losers bracket and met up with Angels again.  Angels is up the most of the game.  Time expired and we are the home team.  We battled and scored.  Bases loaded.  Mary hits one over 2nd base head and score 1 to tie the game.  Yay.. Daisy takes a walk and in walks the WINNING score.  Oh yeah.. we going to semifinals.  And who against, our nemesis Hive.  haha.  Girls are just pumped and on fire after beating an older team.  And they definitely didn't dissapoint in semi's vs Hive.  We were up the whole game.  Bubbles and Aubrey helped by both hitting HR's this game to keep us ahead.  By the time of the last inning, the score was 8-4 and we won.  fair and square and they couldn't protest a dayum thing.  The coach tried to question the speed up runner.. but really does that surprise you.  They couldn't question/protest a dang thing like he always tries to do.  its really quite obnoxious and hello.. how long have you been coaching..hahaha.

Well by now it is about 1030 and we going into the championship game.. like WTH, it was scheduled to finish at 730 haha.  It is freezing cold.  so cold it felt like my legs are frost biten. hhaha. We played Predators.  All i know is we loss 4-1 but we so dang proud of the girls.  Predators has been blasting on teams this whole tournament by double digits.  Even after playing all day long and being hungry and freezing cold BOOM held this team to only 4 points.  We couldn't be more proud.  It was a great tournament and what a way to end the season.  They definitely did not disappoint.  Second place is just as good.  BOOM!!!