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2008/2009 Season Summary: 20 tournaments (14UA/B), 71 Wins, 49 losses, 1 tie resulting in a 6-0 record and the 14U TCS State Championship, one 2nd place, five 3rd place and four 5th place finishes.  And, last but not least, we completed the season with a 4th place finish at the 14UB TCS World Series in Park City Utah.

July 13-18- Park City- TCS World Series:  Wolves complete an excellent season with a 7-3 record in Park City and a 4th place overall finish in the 14B Gold Bracket.  Pool play consisted of wins over She Devils, Bad to the Bone (finished 1st in Silver Bracket play), and IV Dynasty. Lone pool loss in a close game to Cal Thunder. On Thursday, we drop our first elimiation game to eventual Gold Bracket 2nd place team Team Renegade.  However, we recover from the early set back to post a 4-0 elimination day record on Friday taking out in order; CA Panthers, Salt Lake Slam, Laguna Niguel Shockwave and Utah Charge 95.  On championship Saturday, the Wolves drop a 2nd game to Cal Thunder to complete an excellent tournament showing; the highest finishing Arizona team in the tournament!

In addition to an excellent record on the field, we also had 3 players place in the Skills Contest finals.  Amanda took 2nd in speed throwing and 1st in accuracy. Kelsey took 2nd in accuracy and Becca 3rd in accuracy.

June 27/28 TCS So. Cal- Wolves hit the beach; cruise the harbor and then go 2-2 in Southern California tournament. In a deep and talented field filled with lots of 14A and 14B teams heading to Park City, the Wolves go 2-1 in pool play giving up a total of 5 runs to 95 Lil' Rebels, NV Dynasty and Central Cal Intensity.  Unfortunately, our tournament ends early with a tough 1st elimination game loss to the 94 So. Cal Waves.

June 20/21 TCS Flagstaff- Wolves go up in altitude and bring home a 3rd place finish with a 4-2 record. A hard fought loss to eventual tournament champions Villa Park Vipers ends the day.

June 6/7 2009- TCS A + B State Championship- Wolves go 6-0 and win the 14U TCS State Championship!

May 30/31 2009: TCS Cool Country- Payson- Wolves return with a 5-1 record and a 3rd place finish.

May 16/17 2009: Wolves go 5-2 and take home 2nd place in tht TCS Park City Qualifier. A hard fought tournament ends in a 3-0 defeat at the hands of Chaos 95.

 November 15/16 2008- USSSA Rose Mofford: Wolves go 3-0 on Saturday and win their pool. Game 1 is a 3-2 7th inning win over Wackers 14U; Game 2 is a 6-5 7th inning win over Scorpio-Manny and Game 3 is a an 8-1 win over SWAT.  Unfortunately, the Wovles ran in to a hot 14U Desert Kaos team on Sunday morning and were eliminated 7-5.  The Kaos were successful in keeping the KJ and Coleman 95 Desert Wolves from meeting in what would have been a great head to head all Wolves semi-final.  Final record 3-1.

November 8/9 2008- TCS Avondale "The Whole Enchilada": Wolves go 4-0 on Saturday taking pool games handily against QC Blaze 14-4 and Payson Starz 15-1. Then they won their first two elimination games against Prescott Lady Hawks 14-1 and QC Lady Cats 5-3.  Sunday mornings have not been kind to the Wolves as we are eliminated in the semi finals by the eventual tournament champion Chaos 95. Wovles finish in 3rd place in a 14 team tournament.  Final record 4-1.  

October 25/26 2008- TCS Tempe- Wolves go 2-0 on Friday night beating Team Intensity and Gilbert Hurricanes.  On Saturday we win our only elimination game beating Fusion before bowing out of the tournament with a loss to the Gilbert Hurricanes in quarter final action. The Wovles finish tied for 5th out of 14 teams with a 3-1 record.

September 27/28 2008- USSSA Rose Mofford: Wolves go 2-1 on Saturday with wide run rule victories over Xplosion-Martinez and Xplosion 95 and a close 5-3 loss to Krazy Kats 14U.  Tournament ends earlier than expected with a close 6-5 loss to Desert Prowlers on Sunday morning.  Final record 2-2.

 September 2008: Congratulations to the 95 Wolves team earning a 5th place tie out of 29 teams entered in the TCS Fun in the Sun tournament September 13/14 2008 at Victory Lane in Glendale. The Wolves went 1-1 in pool play beating Xplosion Martinez and losing to Desert Kaos. In eliminaton play we defeated the QC Blaze and Flagstaff Lightning before falling to the eventual tournamenat champion Shockwave. All in all, a very good first tournament for the team. Final record 3-2. 

 Team Information

Coaches: Chris Coleman: Coach Coleman has been a softball head coach for 6 years and is now in the 2nd year of leading the 95 Desert Wolves-Coleman. Prior competitive softball experience has been with two teams that played during 2006-2008 seasons. In addition to running the Phireballs and Scottsdale Sting 95 teams over the past 3 years, Coach Coleman has also been instrumental in the adminstration and management of Scottsdale Miss Softball; Arizona's largest recreational fastpitch softball league. With Scottsdale Miss Softball, Coach Coleman idealized and started Pitching and Catching instruction clinics as well as the Scottsdale Sting competititive arm of SMS.

John Tokach: Coach Tokach has been involved in Arizona competitive fastpitch for more than two decades. His fastpitch coaching experience begain in southern Arizona in 1985.  Before joining the 95 Desert Wolves, Coach Tokach was instrumental in the formation and adminstration of the EV Pride organization where he was head coach of the EV Pride 95 team the past few seasons. Coach Tokach brings a tremendous amount of furndamental and game knowledge to the organization.

Bruce Allison: Coach Allison has been involed in an assistant coaching position with fastpitch softball for the past 3 years primarily with Scottsdale Miss Softball as well as the Scottsdale Sting organization.

Merrick Firestone: Merrick is head of the Wolves organization and as such makes himself available to all our teams as additional coaching experience. The 95 Wolves-Coleman use Merrick, his expertise, and his facility for many of our batting practices. Having his involvement with the team is tremendous positive.

 Roster Openings:  If you are interested in playing for the 95 Desert Wolves-Coleman, please contact Coach Coleman at dw95softball@cox.net or call 480-363-2614

Contact: Chris Coleman at dw95softball@cox.net or by cell at 480-363-2614

Team Philosophy: We believe in the team sport concept and will try to create teams that have good chemistry and fundamentals. We seek good attitude, athletic players that enjoy playing and learning. We will teach them, but they also need to want to learn. We will stress high character, intelligent play.  Practices are active and important to good development of the team and tend to involve several assistants so as to keep the practices highly productive. We will attempt to create a competitive balance stressing solid competitive play on the field, while looking to build each player individually on and off the field.  We strive to have every player on the roster to constantly improve and for the team to always be moving forward.  We believe in fielding a competitive team and will strive to win but do not teach a win at all cost mentality.

Team Goal: We will play mostly AZ tournaments throughout the year with some travel when appropriate. As a 1995 birth year based team, the majority of our players will be entering high school during this 2009-2010 season.  Our goal for the year is to compete at the top end of the 14UA based teams and to be competitive within that peer group. We will play 14A and 16U tournaments with a mindset toward preparing our players for varsity level competition in the spring.  We will aim to qualify for and compete in a national tournament in the summer of 2010. As summer 2010 approaches and the team returns from high school play,  we will look to play more out of town tournaments throughout Arizona and Southern California.