Erindale Lions Little League: Softball Select
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2009 SOFTBALL SELECT TEAMS:
Squirt:
Coach: Karen Tan
Tournaments Entered:
Vaughan – July 25 Guelph – August 22
Novice:
Coach: Joe Arruda
Tournaments Entered:
Guelph - June 14
Unionville - June 20 (ppd due to rain) RESCHEDULED TO AUG 15
Brampton - July 12
Bantam:
Coach: Lou Lamanna
Tournaments Entered:
Unionville - June 28 (ppd due to rain)
Maple (Woodbridge) - July 19
Brampton - July 26
Windsor - July 31
Mississauga North - Sept 27
Big League (Midget):
Coach: Katheleen deFreitas
Tournaments Entered:
Unionville – June 14 Woodbridge - July 25 Cdn. Invitational - Aug 2/3
Junior:
Coach: Paul Carriere
Tournaments Entered:
Niagara Falls – July 10/11/12
BIG LEAGUE TEAM WINS SILVER IN UNIONVILLE:
June 14, 2009/Story by Kathleen deFreitas....After a bit of a bumpy start in the early game, the Midget Girls Big League Team bounced back finish in 2nd Place in a tournament in Unionville on Sunday, June 14/09. Their first game against Brampton tied at 1-1, and they won their three remaining games 9-0 against Pickering, 19-2 against Unionville, and 6-3 against Whitby. This resulted in a tie for 1st place with the Brampton team but due to the tie-breaker formula, we lost out by just 0.07%!
During the Skills Competition during the lunch break, the Erindale ladies dominated with a 1st Place finish in the running competition for Breanna Shanahan, a 1st Place finish in the throwing competition for Samantha de Freitas, and a 2nd Place finish in the hitting competition for Samantha Palomba. Overall, a very successful day for the team, despite this being the first time they have played together as a group. A job very well done ladies!
NOVICE SELECT TEAM WINS BRONZE IN GUELPH:
Qualifiers:
Game 1:
Erindale 8 - Whitby 6
Game 2:
Erindale 6 - Brampton 9
Game 3:
Erindale 9 - Burlington 5
Bronze Medal Game:
Erindale 20 - Mississauga North 11
JUNIOR SELECT TEAM IN NIAGARA FALLS:
For the first time ever, Erindale sent a Junior Select team to compete in a Tier 2 Rep tournament in Niagara Falls. Despite being the youngest team in the tournament, the girls played very hard, but came up short in each of their three games.
NOVICE SELECT TEAM WINS GOLD IN BRAMPTON:
July 13, 2009/Story by Joe Arruda. The Erindale Novice Selects had a very solid tournament in our neighbour city to the north going undefeated the entire tournament. The very well run tournament saw us playing the host team in our first game in the morning sparking our team "awake" figuratively and in a way, literally, with a decisive win of 12 to 5. The second and third games went very well with wins of 10 to 7 over Unionville and a very solid showing of 18 to 3 over Oshawa, respectively. The gold medal game witnessed our team coming back from a first inning 4 to 0 deficit against Burlington and then never looking back taking the tournament championship with an impressive 13 - 6 win. The spectacular play of all our players both offensively and defensively was a testament to all their hard work thus far and was overshadowed only by our team's cohesive team work, bonding and having a great time on such a great day for ball!
Congratulations to our Novice team. BANTAM SELECT TEAM IN VAUGHAN:
Our morning began quite early and everyone showed up ready to play in Vaughan. We won our first game against Burlington 6 -3 then went on to win the next two games in our pool 8-2 over Sudbury and 9 - 4 over Kitchener. In the Semi Finals we faced Mississauga N and unfortunately didn't come away successful in a 7-1 loss. We ended up playing Burlington in the consolation round and lost 8 - 5.
NOVICE SELECT TEAM WINS SILVER IN UNIONVILLE:
Erindale went undefeated through the qualifiers going into the championship game convincingly. The second game, I felt, was one of our best tournament games of the year, against an always formidable Whitby team. Our outstanding all around defence conceded only 2 runs, which was no match for our 19 runs coming off impressive hitting and heads up base running. During the skills competition, the players selected by coach Rob, represented Erindale with pride. In Throwing, Leah Monie came second (but coming literally millimetres from winning first); in Hitting, Jennifer Crawford did great placing second as well; in Running, Steph Hughes, one our youngest players, missed 3rd place by only a few seconds. Congratulations to all our skills competitors! In the championship game, I think the heat of the day caught up to us more than it had with our opponents from Brampton. They avenged an earlier loss to us at their own tournament and played a tremendous game winning 13 - 4. Miranda Indovina was our tournament MVP. This tournament tops a very successfull Select season for the Novice Girls Select team, not only in tournament results but in how the team bonded.
Congratulations to all the players!
Joe Arruda
BANTAM SOFTBALL SELECT WIN BRONZE AT MNBA TOURNEY:
GOLD - 1 SILVER - 2 BRONZE - 2 |
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