Players & Parents, 

Welcome to the Long Island HEAT 16U RED WEBSITE!!

 UPDATED 8/18/09

The 2009/2010 Long Island Heat 16U Team is complete!!

We are excited to announce FIVE new strong additions to the roster!!

Paige Elgarten, Lori Michalowski, Jeanette Harvey, Kimberly Fazio & Racquel Simpson!!

Welcome to the TEAM!!

 2009/2010 16U RED TEAM ROSTER

# 2 RUSSELL                    #3 MOTISI                #5 MOCCALDI

#44  MARSMAN          #10 GIORDANO          # 7 HARVEY 

           # 8 ELGARTEN          #31 KINSELLA

#39 PROVENCHER       #62 GAZZOLA           #  12 FAZIO   

# 22 MICHALOWSKI                  # 14 SIMPSON

   WATCH THE HEAT RED 16U AS THEY BRING THEIR GAME TO A NEW LEVEL!!

                                       H- HARD WORD

                                       E- EFFORT

                                       A- ATTITUDE

                                       T- TEAM

                                       R- RESPECT

                                       E- ELECTRICITY

                                       D- DEDICATION

UPDATED 7/21/09

After crushing the competition and remaining undefeated to win the 4th of July Firecracker tournament, the Long Island Heat 14u Red team "brought the Heat" to Pennsylvania and won the Silver division of the PA Softball Summer Sizzler Tournament.  After a disappointing start to the weekend, going down 0 - 5 in close competitive pool play, on rain soaked fields, they fell into the Silver bracket for championship play.  With the sun shining on them Sunday morning, July 19th, the Heat hit the fields with their usual intensity and never looked back.  Their competition were three very strong and talented teams from up and down the East Coast, but their talent proved no match for the "hot" bats and ferocious pitching from Nicole Moccaldi, Marisa Motisi, and Casey Waleko who led the charge from the mound.   All of the Heat girls show each time they step on the field what being a team is all about and always bring their winning spirit in their bat bags.  Their dedication and love for the game brings them from as far as Wantagh and East Hampton to Brookhaven Town fields, but their talents go far beyond that.  You can be sure we will see great things from them both on and off the field in the future!!

Amazing way to end the 2009 Tournament season!! 

Written by Carol Marsman

 UPDATED 7/6/09

      The Heat defense was unbreakable the entire weekend with every player making outstanding plays, keeping their head in the game, and playing like a champion. When an error was made they shook it off and got right back in the game, which is what being a winning team is all about. The outfield had a tremendous weekend making non-stop `highlight-reel` catches and plays. Starring in left field was Brittany Mueller who showed off her awesome instincts by playing tough every game. She would bounce back from an amazing diving catch to throw the ball in quickly and save runners on base from tagging. Also putting on a show in Center Field was Jessica Giordano who controlled the outfield non-stop and always had her head in the game. In right field you would find Casey Waleko who was a tremendous asset to this teams success. She played solid every game and had the other team hoping they didn’t hit it towards right field. Also contributing was the impenetrable infield. At the corners you would find Kayla McCoy, Carissa Kinsella, and Madison Provencher. Kayla would play both first and third and hardly make mistakes, playing so that the other team would think twice before hitting the ball towards her. Carissa made outstanding plays which had the other teams on their toes and the fans on their feet all weekend. Madison had an amazing weekend a first making seemingly impossible stretches and hanging on to the ball the whole way. But the infield doesn’t stop there. Playing second was Holly Russell, now, she may be small, but she never failed to amaze everyone with her plays and positivity in the field. One of her spectacular plays includes a great catch of a line drive and then a throw to first for a double play in a clutch situation in the championship game. Also starring for this team was our short stop Nicole Gazzola playing smooth and executing flawlessly on every play.  Every part of this team made one tough defense that was heard to break.

   The Heat OFFENSE was huge this weekend and as their coach would say “the bats were really on fire”. Every girl had outstanding hits and showed the other teams that their defense would have to be as good as the Heat’s is in order to win. Adding to Heat offense was Brittany Mueller who, batting fourth, really proved why she was batting in a clutch position. Also contributing was Holly Russell who bunted phenomenally when told to, but when asked to hit the ball she really showed her power. All weekend Holly hit the ball hard and far and never backed down. In Saturday’s seeding games every girl hit the ball hard and drove in runs to prove that the Long Island Heat did indeed deserve to be the number two seed. The girls all came together to score ten runs and not let the other team score once in the seeding games against the Greyhounds and the Long Island Storm. Going into Sunday’s elimination games they were undefeated (which they would remain) and unscored on. The team played like champions and came back from going down by three runs in the first inning to beat the Hurricanes 13 to 3. Against the Bandit’s the girls always had their heads up and scored in perfect times to win the game. In the final Championship game Holly Russell, Katie Marsman, Kayla McCoy, Marisa Motisi, Carissa Kinsella, Madison Provencher, Jessica Giordano, Nicole Gazzola, Nicole Moccaldi, and Brittany Mueller all came together as a team to win it all. These girls had a combined forty hits in five games, with three triples, three doubles, and four bunt base hits. With an amazing thirty-four runs for and only seven runs against! These girls played completely outstanding and the coaching staff and parents and siblings are all very proud of them. The wins won’t stop here however, because these girls are champions.

GREAT PERFORMANCE!!!

written by players: 

 Katie Marsman

The Heat 14u RED dominated the

Triple Crown "4th of July Fire Cracker Frenzy" National Qualifer 

all the way to the end!

The players executed in all aspects of the game.

Pitching, Offense and Defense were on FIRE!!

5-0 record for the weekend and win the tournament by defeating TEAM LONG ISLAND Hogan in the CHAMPIONSHIP GAME.

HEAT RED vs Hurruncanes Green 13-3 Victory

HEAT RED vs Bandits Panirello 6-3 Victory

HEAT RED vs Team Long Island Hogan 5-1 Championship Game VICTORY

Amazing Job Heat Players!!                                                               

Coach Russell

Regards,

16U LI HEAT Coaching Staff 

COACH RUSSELL - 

SOFTBALLMANAGER@OPTONLINE.NET     (631)780-2570