The PAL North Brevard Blaze 12 and Under team played this past weekend in the Ormond Beach Shocktoberfest Tournement and the girls made it to the finals! They finished the tournament in second place. They went 4 and 2 on the weekend and played a great championship game on Sunday.

Thank you Coach Martin Asinari for sharing this photo!

     The PAL North Brevard Blaze 12 & Under and 14 & Under team will play a scrimmage game against each other this Sunday at our home field at the Chain of Lakes Regional Sports Complex. The game starts at 6:00. As always, this will be a great game and an opportunity for the girls to practice in a competitive environment.

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     I would like to thank my wife Jennie Young and daughter Kylie for all their support and for putting up with all of this. I would also like to tell the girls to never give up, play the game from the time you get out of your car till the time you leave the park and always remember to have fun and smile!

     For the girl's ; Never give up and always give 100% when they are between the white lines. Play fair and always show good sportsmanship. For the parents ; encourage and support your daughters.

     The 12 & Under Blaze team did GREAT at the Cocoa Beach Memorial Classic tournament on May 24th and 25th. The team finished Saturday with 1 win and 2 losses, playing three very strong teams. The team was very competitive in the two loss, losing 5 -3 to the Stringrays in a rain shorten game, and losing 10 – 2 to a very strong Plant City Raiders team ( who were the number 1 seed in the gold division) As Sunday came, the Blaze girls were the number three seed in the silver group , The team played the Brevard Steelers 96 team and after spotting them 6 runs in the first inning we battled back to tie the game at 6 – 6 after a couple of back and forth innings with great defense from both teams. The Blaze team finally gave up two runs and lost the game 8 – 6 .

From Coach Young:  We are very proud of these girls and we see great things in them, remember this team has only had two practices. All the girls played outstand but we had couple of girls I would like to recognize: the team tournament MVP went to H. Cox for her outstanding defense and her hitting over .600 for the weekend. Also we had our first winning pitcher in game one against a Steelers team. B. Kershner was outstanding on that game and all weekend long and did a great job staying ready at any time.

     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 PAL North Brevard Blaze would like to thank Reliant Energy Indian River Station for generously sponsoring the PAL North Brevard 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.