Welcome to The Crete Crush. The Crete Crush organization is a fast growing group of players that want to play competitive softball while still having fun! They are dedicated girls that love the sport. They train hard, they play hard. It began with one team, one coach, and a group of girls that had won their in-house league championship and wanted more! Founded by Gina Welsh, The Crete Crush are now entering their 6th season, and have grown to tremendously. The Crete Crush are a girls fastpitch softball travel club out of Crete, Illinois who are committed to providing our player’s with the developmental skills needed to ensure their growth as athletes on the field, as well as the life skills needed off the field. In addition, a strong emphasis will be placed on the importance of academic excellence, good sportsmanship, and positive behavior. The passion that drives the Crush as an organization is our love and respect of the game. Our players are highly motivated to excel in the sport through hard work and dedication, while forming everlasting friendships. Our goal for each season is to have fun, better our skills, showcase our talents, & prepare our girls for each and every game they play all the way until Nationals.

"The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club wont be worth a dime."
                Babe Ruth



Take time to stop by and visit each individual teams page and check out our message board!!

Crush Welcome Picnic

The crush wil be holding a welcome picnic for all crush players and families 9/6/2009. Start time is 2:00 pm at Goodenow grove, Beecher Illinois. The Crush teams will be providing the meat and families are asked to bring a side. Each team is assigned a certain course (side) so check with your coach. We will play games so bring your favorites. There will be Bags, Whiffle Ball, Hill Billy Golf + more.. I will be glad to beat Coach Tom's Boys at bags once again - they really love that!

Please give a count to your coach so we make sure there is enough food. Bevergaes are BYOB.  We have had these in the past and everyone that attends has a great time! Past pictures can be found on the albumns tab.

It is just a good old fashioned picnic to get to know all our new players and coaches.

 Mark it on your calendar!

2010 Tryouts & Avalailable Roster Spots 

2010 Tryouts have been concluded; BUT, there are a few roster spots left.

10u is looking for 2 or 3 more players.

Contact Kevin Hickory: 805.9539739

14u is looking for 2 or 3 more players.

Contact Mike Lowe: 708.878.8913

HAVE YOU HEARD??

CRUSH 10u Orange TAKE NSA STATE CHAMPIONSHIP!!!!

That's right team Rogers has one-upped coach Welsh's best by finishing 1st in the NSA "B" northern state tourney. These girls are on quite an amazing roll as they have also won the Morris tourney & the Wisconson Dells Tourney. Coach Rogers is so proud of the way his girls played durng the weekend. If you have not seen the team play - you are missing something special. Check out their page to get a schedule & come cheer them on! 

14u Gets to "The SHIP!"

Many teams take the 4th weekend off, but if you are team Reilly you head up to Naperville for the Rib Fest and a good old fashioned dose of Championship Softball.  The girls spent thier holiday weekend putting together an amazing run of wins to capture the title with a win against a very taleneted Chi-Town team. I think you all deserve a big Hoorah!!

Crush 10u Black take 3rd in Kankakee

Team Hickory our 1st year 10u team has battled hard all season as they learned the ins & outs of travel ball. The girls showed how well they have learned by capturing 3rd in a Kankakee Tourney a couple weeks ago. It has been a tremendous transformation as the girls learn competitive softball. Coach Hickory has bragged on this team and their progress all season and is so happy with their finish. Great Job Girls!!

Crush Holds Food Drive

One day coach Gina was doing her banking at First United when she saw a sign for the Food drive they were holding for the Crete Food Pantry. Coach Gina thought that was a great idea especially since she didn't even know Crete had a food pantry. If Coach Gina didn't know...How many others did not know.

So our wonderful Crush families held a food drive "Crush style". We held fall round robins for our teams and teams of the community. We asked for donations from the teams and our own Crush parents and asked them to bring them to the fields the morning of the round robin. The response was tremendous. We collected over ten boxes of food that were delivered to the Crete Food Pantry. Everything from baby food to vegetables were bagged up and brought over for needy families this fall.

Thank you to all the parents, players and visiting teams that assisted us in our drive! We could have never done that without you. Thank you also to Coach Lowe who helped me deliver the food to the pantry.

Teams Participating:

Crete Crush	Triple Play	Indiana Rebels	Tinley Park Rockers
Plainfield Twisters	Bridgeview Redbirds	Joliet Dirt Devils	Team Oak
New Lenox Lightning	New Lenox Power	Indiana Chaos	River Valley Rage
Illinois Angels	Oak Forest Outlaws	Wheaton Wildcats	Elmwood Park Lady Tigers
Lincolnway Storm	Tinley Park Bobcats

More pictures on Almbums Section of the website.