There was a greater than expected turn-out at the NBYSA Blaze Girls’ Fastpitch tryouts on Sunday, May 4th, 2008. We had 27 girls pre-register and 66 girls in all tryout in the various age groups with a strong turnout in the 10 & Under group. With all the talented girls that came out for tryouts, we are anticipating a very successful season to the end of the year. Thank you to all the coaches, parents, girls and supporters of the NBYSA Blaze Girls’ Fastpitch organization that are making this program a success in developing girls’ fastpitch softball in North Brevard County.

     The 10 & Under team came in second place in the NSA Fall Warm-up tournament, only losing twice during the weekend with both game losses to the tournament winner, the Aftershock 97 Team. The team had some outstanding personal and team performances!

     Tournament Most Valuable Players for the week-end were...

  *  Kylie - 13 stike outs in 5 innings pitched.

  *  Skylar - for a great job hitting in game 1 and outstanding defense.

  *  Brianne - for outstanding hitting and great team leadership.

     Other outstanding players for the week-end were...

  *  Brooke - in game one she pitched a no hitter against the Seminole Warriors: 0 hits, 3 strike-outs, and only 2 walks, leading the team to a 6 - 2 win. Great job Brooke!

  *  Mckenzie - had a great outing agianst the Aftershock 97 team. She pitched a 5 hitter with 3 strike-outs and only 2 walks in a tight game that we lost 7-6.

  *  Kylie - threw her personal best game ever in the 3rd game on Saturday. She had 13 strike-outs over five innings while only giving up 2 hits and walking only 2 in a 12 - 3 win over the Crusher Teal team.

     The 10 & Under NBYSA Blaze finished the weekend with a record of 3 wins and 2 losses in the finals. In the last four tournaments we have: 2 seconds, a 3rd and a 5th place finish. Not bad! Last years team's total record was 3 wins and 13 losses thru 16 games, this year we are 8 wins and 8 losses through 16 games.

* Makala was hurt all weekend but when she did get up to bat, she hit a hard line drive to 2nd base.

     The NBYSA Blaze 10 & Under team made an outstanding showing!  Even though this team has only been playing together for a few months, they performed as a seasoned team.  We are all very proud of the exceptional individual effort and teamwork exhibitted by the team.

     Here are some player highlights from the tournament week-end!

  *  Kali lead the team in hitting all weekend long and played great defense at first base.

  *  Mckeenzie had an in the park home run that went over the left fielder's head.

  *  Kylie did a great job behind the plate both throwing out would be base stealers and getting runners out at home plate on passed balls.

  *  Martina and Makala were hiting machines with both having multiple hit games.

  *  Skylar got in the hitting herself with multiple hit games during the weekend.

  *  Brooke did a geat job once again achoring our pitching staff.

  *  Brianne had a fantastic defensive weekend at shortstop, 2nd base and 3rd base.

     Overall, the team had a great weekend. The team finished 5th out of 9 teams. Keep working hard and good things will happen!

     The NBYSA Blaze 10 & Under team made an outstanding showing!  Even though this team has only been playing together for a few months, they performed as a seasoned team.  We are all very proud of the exceptional individual effort and teamwork exhibitted by the team.

     Individual and team statistics for the Cocoa Beach Fall Beach Rumble Tournament are now available online.

     The Scrimmage Tournament games sponsored by NBYSA Blaze was a huge success! Our 10 & Under team hosted the Central Brevard Stealers and the Seminole County Warriors. The scrimmage Tournament was conducted as a double elimination format. The scrimmage tournament was more of a practice session than a true tournament, but was conducted as a true tournament utilizing top quality umpires. This scrimmage tournament gave all the teams involved an opportunity to play other teams in a less competitive, more friendly atmosphere but maintained the quality of a true tournament. The NBYSA Blaze 10 & Under Team would like to thank the Stealers and Warriors teams that participated and would like to give a special thanks to the Umpires who did a great job officiating the games and to all the parents and volunteers that helped make this scrimmage such a success.

     The NBYSA Blaze would like to thank Reliant Energy Indian River Station for generously sponsoring the NBYSA Blaze. Reliant Energy’s business philosophy is founded on building solid relationships with the people and communities they serve and our team truly appreciates and is humbly honored by being sponsored by Reliant Energy.

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