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Ventura Tourney Highlights

Posted by Chris Young on Jun 12 2007 at 05:00PM PDT
Friday Night Game 1 Pool Play: A sluggish start had the Silver team down as late as the 4th inning 3-2. Top of the order woke up and doubles by Domonique and Amanda get the rally started. Key bunts and hits by the middle and bottom of the order force a game deciding 4 run inning to almost lock Thousand Oaks out. Solid pitching by Sam and getting the changeup going threw the TO hitters for a loop and shut them down after their big inning in the 2nd. Saturday Game 2 Pool Play: A defensive gem, the Silver team nearly shutout a well coached Fillmore squad. Bunt coverage and some good throwouts by Anaya kept Fillmore from making something from "small ball". Sami gets a key hit in the 3rd inning with bases loaded to drive in 2 and stretch the lead to 4-0. Steph pitches solid and makes some great defensive plays on bunts and pop ups to close the game. Both Hailey's do a solid job on the left side and the outfield made a couple of good catches on deep flyballs. SILVER LOCKS DOWN PLAYOFF SPOT SECOND WEEK IN A ROW!!! Sunday Game 3 Pool Play: Tough game. Lack of timely hitting and bad baserunning cost the Silver team a chance to sweep the pool. Mental errors in one inning erased many great plays and great coverage schemes. Sam takes an undeserved loss with a stellar pitching effort. Not much to say on this one, Coach Chris also blows it by not sticking to the plan and mixing things up too much. Clearly should have had this one (positioning your self in bracket play influences what road you take to get to the finals). To Camarillo's credit they had good D and their pitchers command of a floating changeup killed the Silver bat threats. Hailey M. had a great run driving triple with no out but then got stranded...thats how tough things went that AM. Failure to put key bunts down cost the Silver two runs. Sunday Game 4 Elimination: Silver wakes up and keeps a Gold like PYL team within reach. Gold pitcher at first over powers the Silver bats but the bats wake up later on. Gold hitters keep the pressure on and get a few runs but not without having to work hard and earn them. Great D saw the Silver turn two double plays. A third to first to home shutdown a big PYL threat and a home plate play and then throw to second shut down another threat. Game could have been a 7-0 type game but Silver hangs tough, gets two back to back hits in inning 5 to threaten and then Alexus hits a sharp single to score Sierra who put the ball in play all weekend. Good D by Toni, Sami and Hailey A. Hailey M hangs tough at third and takes a few hard shots. Anaya was tough behind the plate all week and caught a few pop ups. The irony was by far one of the best games played. If there is such a thing as a quality loss this was it. The Silver team learned alot and was pushed the entire game by a perennial powerhouse type team. Thanks to several of the gold players and parents for your support...that didnt go un-noticed and Im sure the Silver girls got an extra boost from it. Overall a fantastic weekend the parents were great, the Team Dinner Saturday night was alot of fun. Thanks to the coaching staff Bernie/Frank/Raul and Team Mom Rae for all their hard work. Big travel tourneys arent successful without alot of pre-planning and parental support. I appreciate everyone staying in one central location (props to Shelley Wilcox for the recommendation) it made logistics very efficient!!! Coach Chris

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