Nemesis Elite: NE NEws: 11.19.12 - Weekend Recap - Colleges recruit at Discovery

Nemesis 16U Gold team competed in Surf City's Early Thanksgiving Showcase.  Friday had two games against two Firecracker teams and won them both.  Anessa and Kylie joined us for the evening and Kylie had Oklahoma there to check out her awesome hitting skills!  Kylie hit a shot to RC for a triple and then another for a single.  She batted 500 for the night and impressed OK so much their head coach flew out Sunday to watch her in one more game.  Anessa did a great job pitching the first game holding Firecracker's Brashear to 0 runs and 0 hits.  In the second game against another Firecracker's team, Erica and Zoe also kept them to 0 runs.  Erica only allowed 2 hits and Zoe 0 hits.  Great job ladies!  Hitters of the night...Tanya who went 4 for 4 (4 singles) and Madison who went 3 for 5 (single, double and triple).

Saturday was a little rough.  The rain held off all day until our game time...figures.  Rained about 80% of the game!  We played AZ Cats which was a solid team...beasts!  Amanda made an awesome diving stop at 2B to make the 3rd out of an inning!  They took it to us in the rain and we lost 9-2.  Our girls hit the ball well, just directly to all their players while AZ hit the ball in all the gaps.  Softball god's just weren't in our favor that night.  Game was called 10 minutes early due to the field being mud by then.  Our second game for the day was cancelled due to rain.   

Sunday started off on a weak note.  We played Kryptonite who showed up to play and hit the crap out of the ball!  Unfortunately our pitching didn't answer the call at the beginning of the game.  Kryptonite started off with 5 hits in a row followed by 2 walks and then 2 more hits and 2 more walks.  They scored 10 runs in the first inning!  However, that was all they scored.  Zoe came out in the 2nd inning ready to fight!  Not only did they not score anymore runs, they also did not get one single hit after that!  Great job Zoe! 

Our second game was against Bownet.  The girls kicked it up a notch and came to play.  We won 6-3 which was nice since Oklahoma came to watch Kylie play again.  Bownet used 3 different pitchers which did not affect us...we hit the ball very well off all three. 

Our third game of the day was against USA Athletics and our girls wanted the win bad!  They not only came to play, they came to fight!  They fought hard both defensively as well as offensively.  Outfield was not about to let anything by them or drop.  Ally made an awesome diving stop in CF to keep them to a single rather than a double. USA put 2 runs on the board in the first inning.  We put 0.  But in the 2nd inning, we answered them with Tanya leading off with a single, followed by Alyssa with a single, Erica with a walk and then Angie with a high bouncer up the middle to bring in 2 runs.  Angie "attacked" second with Erica on 3B and USA lost focus and went after Angie which scored Erica.  Score is now 3-2 NE up.  USA then answers with 1 more run...tied ball game top of 3.  Ari starts off the 3rd inning with a shot to Left Center for a double.  Madison follows with a single up the middle to score Ari.  Tanya lines out deep to CF to score Madison.  Ally follows with a shot over the pitchers head for a single.  Alyssa then follows with a shot to Left Center for a triple to score Ally.  USA then has their ups for the bottom of the 3rd.  Zoe strikes out their first 2 batters.  Top of the line up comes up and we walk her.  We allow her to steal 2B and advance to 3B on a pass ball.  We then walk the 2nd batter.  Runners on 1st and 3rd and we do not execute our play properly so runner at 3B scores and runner on 1B is now on 2B (scoring position).  Score is 6-4.  3rd in their line up is up (she hit a triple her first time at bat) and is fouling off some deep hit balls.  She sends a hard hit line drive to Jaycie in LF who sprints and catches it just before it hits the ground for the 3rd out.  We win 6-4. 

Played 6 games = 4 wins and 2 losses

Universities at Nemesis Elite Games
Kent State
Marshal

Michigan
Oklahoma

Special thanks to Brittany for playing with us on Friday and Saturday!