Pcba nsa national qualifier- 14U Thanks..Hurricanes Win ..
Bush0478 and all the folks at the Poland Community Baseball Association; the Hurricanes 14 U had a great time at Poland Tourney. Wish we could have brought the 10s and 12s, hope they make it next year.
This was our teams fist trip there at any age and felt the tourney was very well run, the grounds were in very good shape especially given the recent rain, Yes there was the mud puddle in right on Field 3 which one of our girls took a swim in late Saturday... yet overall the Grounds crew took care of fields before every game very nicely. Only issue was moving mound back and forth. A couple of times after an inning were completed. 13/14u Pitchers are even faster at 35 feet! (Also really like the bat and helmet storage in the dugouts more parks should do this, teenagers can be messy)
Competition was great. Good mix of teams with 10 in 14U. Want to thank the players from the Ohio Dynamite, the Magic and of course the Valley extreme for a great competition today, and first class sportsmanship. Hope the Magic player?s knee is Ok; great play at the plate in this game and some bodies got twisted.
Valley Extreme gave us all we could handle in the championship. After some back and forth, Hurricanes were up going into bottom of the 6th, and someone on VE hit the cover off the ball to deep center and way over the fence. Get that girl in front of college coaches now... In any event good thing no one was on base.
Going into the bottom of the 7th, the VE advanced the tying runner to 3rd with one out. Next batter hit to mid center and our girl made a good catch and a better throw to the plate and bang bang... 2 outs and Hurricanes take first.
Want to thank our girls for the tough effort; we played well especially this early in the season. Of course we got some things to work on.
VE we look forward to seeing you again. I am sure you will be motivated to win as you always are. Great group of girls on this team that are well coached.
Our fans and players had a great time at the Tourney. Thank you to our great parrents.
Good luck to all as the year rolls on and oh yea?the older 14s show up as school ball ends.