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 Blaze 12 & Under team went 2 – 1 in Ormand Beach. The team had the best record of all the teams playing.

  Kali C.   .667

  Kylie Y.   .571

  Baily S.   .500

  Brianna H.   .429

  Martina S.   .286

  Brooke K.   .167

  Leah L.   .143

  Taylor H.   .000  3 walks and 3 balls put in play

  Mckeenze Q.   .000  2 walks and 5 balls in play

  Brianna K.   .000  1 walk 4 balls in play and reached base twice on hustling out the hit.

  Outstanding hitting!  As a team we only had 10 k’s in 63 at bats!

     Pitching was outstanding! Five different pitchers where used and all threw outstanding. Mckeenze Q. was outstanding in game 2 as she held the Deltona rebels to 1 hit, only 1 walk and 2 runs through 5 innings of play. Mckeenze also threw 6 strikeouts. She had outstanding defense behind her from Martina S, , Baily S. and Leah L. .

From Coach Young - I could go on and on about each and every player on the team, I’am so proud of each and every one of them. Great job this weekend lady’s! You should be very proud of yourselves, you played great as a team. Look out everyone the NBYSA Blaze are coming! Thanks again players and parents.

     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.

On behalf of all the girls......
Thanks you so much for your generous support, Robie and Joan!