Stingers finish 3rd after going 2-1 in pool play, losing in the semi's to the Lady Aces.... Coach Thomas - "We lost our first pool play game, but didn't hit - our pitching was good enough to win and we played good defense. The HR Vipers just put together a few back to back hits and scored all of their runs in one inning. It was good game by both teams... We turned it up in the next two pool play games and played very complete games, winning both... We entered the semi finals playing well by beating a very solid Orion Hunter team.... In the semi final game the Aces capitalized on our errors scoring 3 runs in the top half of the first...They had the momentum from the very first batter and never relinquished it. Plain and simple we just played flat in the semi's and you have to give credit to the Aces - they didn't make any mistakes..... The old addage that defense wins Championships is so true........... Overall we are real happy with our performance and felt this was a well run tournament held at super facilities"

Stingers play in championship but fall short after a very LONG weekend, but still claim runner up in the state tournament and earn a well deserved berth to the USSSA Nationals at Disney in Florida.

The bats were ripping this weekend, absolutely ripping throughout the Stinger line up. But even so we left a number of runners in scoring position in critical situation's. Failing to secure key hits prevented us from being crowned "state champions". We'll keep working, the key hits will come and when they do so will the runs - watch out!.....

Defensively the Stingers were fundamentally sound making all of the routine outs and then some. There were so many great plays there's just no way to mention them all. Deserving of recognition, Becky's diving efforts at first were again displayed, our pitchers love her dedication to catch a ball in the air. The Stingers turned their first TRIPLE PLAY in team history against the Crushers in a very critical situation. It was a fly ball to Haley, then a throw to DW at first, then a throw to Makayla at second. That's playing the game the right way and knowing in advance what you need to do... The triple play came at a very improtant time in the game as the Crusher's had first and second no outs.... There were many other great plays, but it's rare to get a triple play, especially in fast pitch - congratulations Stingers!

As usual, the pitching trio of Tyler, Becky and Jojo wa awesome. You guys kept us in a position to win every game - there were no let downs... Thank you girls for your effort to your game...

A rain shower in Saturday's final game was called in the second inning due to storms. The game ended at 10:15 pm which resulted in the Stingers having to return to the field Sunday by 8:00 am before a drive of 1 hour and 10 minutes. Needless to say Sunday was a very long day and it caught up with us in the Championship. We definetly had many chances to win the states, but just came up a little short. Hey runner up at States is a pretty big accomplshiment and the team should be very proud of their accomplihments.

This was a GREAT tournament for the Stinger and we played some great ball, some of the finset ball of any team in the tournament.

Congratulations!!!