Power Surge 12u 96's continue to prepare for ASA Nationals in Illionios playing some older tough competition.  We went 3-0 this past weekend beating some very tough 14u teams, one being a 1994 team.  Pitching was very good and we are adjusting to the faster pitching.  Our team speed really was the factor in winning the games as we took advantage of every mistake the other teams made.

Next week another 14u with a 14u tournament in Hemet.  On to Nationals!

POWER SURGE 96 SO CAL ASA 'STATE' CHAMPIONS 2009!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wow! Will this Power Surge team ever stop accomplishing and striving to be the very best there is?????? I sure hope not as the sky is the limit for these great players.

Power Surge 96 just went to probably the toughest tournament of the year, The Southern California State Championships with 48 teams, and went undefeated 6-0 and were crowned CHAMPIONS! Power Surge scored 52 runs and gave up only 7 in the six games they played. What a team! What a great group of girls! What a great group of parents and supporters! All always perform with class!

Next up for this talented team.....................ASA Nationals in Normal, Illinois, in late July early August. We have the talent and the confidence to do well at Nationals.

Look out for Power Surge 96 SO CAL STATE CHAMPIONS. We have now won the last five tournaments we have been in and have been undefeated in all five tournaments. Our record is now a whopping 61-5. We look forward to representing Power Surge and California at ASA Nationals.

Power Surge finished a respectable tied for 4th in this high quality tournament.  Conditions were great for us as it was high 90's and very humid which will be the conditions at Nationals.  We got in 6 games, lots of at bats and our pitchers got to pitch in these conditions.  Overall a good weekend for us to continue on to Nationals.

POWER SURGE 96 ACCOMPLISHMENTS SINCE OUR BEGINNING

2009 SUMMER SEASON 

SoCal ASA State Champions,1st place

Fresno Force Classic Tournament, 1st Place

Surf City Tournament, Huntington Beach, 1st Place

Big League Dreams, Palm Springs, 1st Place

Pre-States Revenge Tournament, Co-Champions 

TCS Qualifer 14U, Hemet, 2nd Place

2008 FALL SEASON

ASA Turkey Tournament, Chino Hills, Ca. 3rd Place

USSSA Qualifer, San Diego, Ca. 1st Place

2008 SUMMER SEASON

ASA Regionals, Fairfield, Ca. 2nd Place

ASA Nationals, Montgomery, Al.

TCS Qualifier, Palm Springs, Ca. 1st Place

TCS Qualfier, Hemet, Ca. 3rd Place

Fresno Classic, Fresno, Ca. Tied 13th Place

USSSA Qualifier, San Pedro, Ca. 2nd Place

2007 FALL SEASON

Toys For Tots, Orange County, Ca. 2nd Place

USSSA Qualifer, Hemet, Ca. 3rd Place

Power Surge continues to play well going 3-0 this past weekend.  We must get better though to compete at ASA Nationals in Late July.  We are working hard in practice to simulate all the necessary items that we will face.  In games we are using what we are learning and doing that very well.  We will improve and be a factor come ASA Nationals. 

Our overall record at this time is now 70 wins and 5 losses.

Power Surge looks primed and ready for the ASA States National Qualifier coming up this weekend.  They won all three games scoring 32 runs and giving up 5.

We will try to post the state brackets when they come available here.  Power Surge is ready to take the challenge of trying to qualify for Nationals this coming weekend.

Power Surge now moves forward to get ready for ASA Nationals.  We will be focusing on playing a lot of 14U competition.  We hope that we can compete with the older girls.  As a 12U team it is a challenge to play up and we hope that will make us tougher and better for it.

This past weekend we ventured into the 14u division to play a Friendly.  We were fortunate enough to play well and win all three games scoring 35 runs and giving up only 2 runs.

Power Surge 96 has added two key players that will really help us on our quest to go to ASA Nationals, Selina Taamilo and Julea Cavazos.  Selina is one of the top pitchers in Southern California and can really bring it.  She also has a big bat that will help us with even more power.  Julea brings more speed to our already very fast lineup and plays a great outfield.

 Welcome aboard ladies to the Power Surge ship on a journey to ASA Nationals in Illinois.

Power Surge went undefeated this past weekend and was declared co-champions with the OC Batusters.  Injuries to Batbuster players caused the final not to be played.  Power Surge scored 19 runs and gave up only 1 in the three games they played.

Power Surge is now 55-4 for this season.  Not bad.

Power Surge went to Palm Springs to defend the title it won last year as an all 11-year old team. We are proud to announce that we won the Palm Springs TCS Tournament again this year. Power Surge scored 66 runs and gave up only 5 runs in seven games. Our girls hit some huge home runs, our pitchers were up the the task, our defense was outstanding making only 2 errors all weekend, and as always is the case our baserunners stole many bases. Great job ladies!

What a great accomplishment for our girls. We have now won two tournaments in a row in two succesive weekends and finished 2nd in a 14U tournament three weeks ago. We are certainly on a roll!

Power Surge 96 is really getting its game together. This past weekend we played in a 14U tournament with the older girls and finished in 2nd place out of 24 teams. We certainly could have won the tournament as we had the lead for a part of the game and when the game ended we had the tying run at third base and the winning run at second base. OC Elite 14U, the winning team, had to make a very good play to get the last out.

We did have a great tournament both defensively and offensively. We scored 44 runs in seven games, had 4 shutouts and gave up only 7 runs. Outstanding ladies!

Power Surge 12U would like to introduce its 2009 team. We hope these girls take us to the top of the top.

Power Surge 2009:

Carlee Wallace--Santee ASA

Ahnalin Barkhimer--Santee ASA

Erin Mario--Penasquitos ASA

Katie Schultz--Penasquitos ASA

Tiana Miller--Rancho Berndardo ASA

Kailey Hill--Romona ASA

Sara White--Rancho Bernardo ASA

Katie Byrd--Santee ASA

Rebecca Dvorak--Mira Mesa ASA

Alicia Brown--Glendora ASA

Selina Taamilo--Murrieta ASA

Abigail Metsch--East County ASA

Julea Cavazos--Temecula ASA 

Power Surge 96 had a long day last Sunday. Always looking to improve our hitting we went all the way to Los Angeles for a hitting session for 3 hours. The session was designed to improve our weak points to a point where they become our strong points. It was a very interesting 3 hours. Hope it all works.

Later that day we played a double header to make sure we got in some games. We defeated Team Smith 4-2 and Crush 5-1. A long day but we hope it was worth it.

Power Surge would like to thank all those that showed up for tryouts.  There was some outstanding talent that showed up and we wish all those that were not selected good luck in your future softball careers.

We did select two very talented players which will add to an already very strong team.  We were looking for impact players that can play at the highest level of Travel Ball.  If we did not have that quality of athlete at tryouts we would not have taken any players.  But the two players we selected are top notch softball players that will make Power Surge even better.

We selected Taylor Wyckoff a much needed pitcher who can bring it.  She is 5'10 and can also hit for great power.  Kind of scary to think we are adding another big bat to our already powerful lineup.

We also selected a 1997 birthday player in Abigail Metsch.  Yes, that is right, we selected an 11 year player to join all our 1996 12 years old older gals.  Abigail to my knowledge has never played Travel Ball, at least at the level we play.  Why the heck would we take her.  Well, she ran the fastest of all my current players and we are fast, hit for power like our big hitters, played a smooth shortstop, and to make her more valuable, she is a great catcher.

We would also like make mention that we have offered a spot to Shelbi Evans as she was a great replacement catcher for our starting catcher who was out most of the Fall with a broken ankle.  Shelbi played hard and earned a spot on our Power Surge team. 

With these three additions to our already strong team look for even better results from POWER SURGE in 2009 on the softball field!!!! 

Power Surge finished the Fall season at the Toys Fot Tots tournament in Laguna Nigel.  We finished 4-1, scoring 39 runs giving up only 6, but finished a very disappointing tie for 5th.  Our plans were to show we were one of the big powers of 12U which I think we did.  But, we did not get to a final and that is where we wanted to be.

It will be an interesting 2009 with many teams in the mix for the ASA title.  Hopefully Power Surge can improve and become a team that can win any game at any time no matter what the tournament or friendly.

Power Surge 12U played in the top tournament of the Fall facing the top 12U teams in SoCal.  We are disappointed in not coming out as champions as that is always our goal, but happy with the way we played.  We did beat the eventual champions, the Firecrackers, in pool play.  But they got even with us and beat us in bracket play.

This tournament certainly showed that we are going to compete for the National title.  When we return our three injured players we will be even stronger.  Tryouts may bring even more additional strong players.  Please keep checking this page as to when we will be having our tryouts for the 2009 season. 

Power Surge had some tough games this past weekend going 3 wins and a tie.  We played four straight games and got a lot of good work in.

Power Surge has completed its roster by adding four new players.  Power Surge was very intent on adding some big hitters to compliment the great hitters we have now and the abundance of team speed and slappers we have.  We needed more power to drive our runners in, and we have done it.

Katie Byrd, Alicia Brown, Amber Davis, and Rebecca Dvorak all were integral parts of their mostly older and successful all-star teams.  Katie batted 3rd as 96 birthday on her pretty much all 1995 Santee all-star team.  Alicia was a leading batter for her Glendora all-star team and as a 1996 she was the number one pitcher as well.  Amber was a key member as a 96 on her Poway team that finished 4th at 'B' Nationals.  All three played on teams that went to 'B' Nationals.  Rebecca was the all everything at Mira Mesa doing her best to help the team. 

We welcome all four girls and know that they will be an important part of journey to ASA Nationals in 2009.

We are out!  Unfortunately our bats went completely quite in the elimination bracket getting only 6 hits and scoring 2 runs in the 14 innings we played.  At this level of competition you just can't do that.  Every team here has at least one very good pitcher.  We needed to adjust to that and come out swinging.  We lost to the Tsunami from Jacksonville, Florida, 9-1. 

But, being I think only 1 of 4 all 1996 birthday teams of 11 year olds at ASA Nationals is quite an honor, no matter how we did.  To win over 60 games this past year, to win the huge Triple Crown tournament in Palm Springs, to travel to NorCal and qualify for ASA Nationals, to go to Montgomery and play against the best of the best at ASA Nationals is an amazing acomplishment!!!!  Look out for this team next year at ASA Nationals in Moline, Illinois.  We may be the favorites..........

Today was the first round of bracket play in double elimination.  This is now where it all counts, the tournament has truly started.

Well, I am shocked and saddened to say we came out listless and not ready to play and got our behinds kicked 6-1 by the Lady Cats From Houston, Texas.  I am really at a loss to explain our poor play as we have been playing so well this week.  The team we played was not an overpowering team and I thought we were much better than they were.  But only scoring one run in a game, you don't win often.

Now it is 14 wins to be the champion.  A long road ahead.

Texas Lady Cats 6  Power Surge 1

Power Surge won another tough game, its last of pool play.  We played a very good team from Oklahoma called the Force.  They had some fireball pitchers who really threw heat.  But we were aggressive at the plate, had great pitching, defense, and won.

Power Surge 6  Oklahoma Force 1

Power Surge 12U 96 is in Montgomery, Alabama, participating in the top National Tournament in the country with all the top teams from all the states in the United States, THE BEST OF THE BEST!  We will be updating daily when time permits from our busy schedule on how Power Surge is doing.

We all arrived safely and are very excited to be here with the best teams in the country representing Power Surge and San Diego.  The first day of Opening Ceremonies and the Teams Social, and a practice here in Montgomery, really showed the girls what they were to face, the heat and a lot of amazing teams. 

 Day 1 Monday, July 28

Power Surge plays some giant girls from Portland, Oregon, in the first of two Pool Play games.  I think they drove themselves they looked so old.  Oh well, we got to play them so lets go!  Would you believe:

Power Surge 96  9  Portland, Oregon, Fireballs 4

Power Surge played a really flawless game, bunting up a storm in the beginning of the game and then turning on the hitting to win easily.  Carlee Wallace had three hits to lead the way. 

Power Surge 12U played its last games before going to ASA Nationals in Montgomery, Alabama, and went 3-0 making sure they go to Nationals on a positive note.

Scores:

Power Surge 12U 1996 team is now going to the 'Big Show', ASA NATIONALS, in Montgomery, Alabama, by qualifiying this past weekend in Northern California.  What a fantastic accomplishment by these young girls!!  When this season started they were all coming up from 10U all-stars and we had no idea how good they were going to be and how fast they would be good.  But to qualify for the top National Tournament in the country against mostly older 1995 teams is truly amazing.  Wow!!

Now it is on to Montgomery, Alabama, July 27-Aug. 3 for this great team.  Lets keep it up ladies and you never know what we can do.......................................

Power Surge 96 young guns have qualified for ASA Regionals July 11-13 in Fairfield, Ca.. This is quite an accomplishment for our young team. Only teams that finished in the top tier of ASA States recent tournament qualify. Again, another barometer on how we are doing and what next year will hold for this great team.

Most important, we have a chance to qualify now for ASA Nationals in Montgomery, Alabama, in late July.

WEB STIE LINK IS AT: http://www.socal-asa.com/index.php?ct=jo_travel_tourn_08

Power Surge 96 had a tough draw and a tough weekend. We really played well but our young girls had to play the best of the best to try to qualify for ASA Nationals. Power Surge lost to the Champions of the tournament, Corona Angels 95 (we were tied with them in the 5th inning 1-1 and had the tying runs on in the last of the 7th. Just couldn't get it done) and the 4th place team of the tournament, American Athletics. Tough draw but we could da', should da'.

On to ASA Qualifiers and Regionals in July in Northern California. Montgomery, Alabama, and ASA Nationals, we hope, here we come!

Power Surge 96 went to the prestigous Fresno Force tournament where all the top Travel teams from all over the western states compete to see who is the best of the best.  The past five years the winner of this tournament has won ASA Nationals and probably will this year as well.

I am happy to say we played pretty well finishing 2nd in our pool and we were the top-finishing 1996 team along with the Firecrackers in the tournament.  But in our first bracket game Sunday we lost our poise, which does not happen much with this team, and lost 7-0 to Nemisis Elite 95. 

--POWER SURGE 96 CHAMPIONS--TRIPLE CROWN PALM SPRINGS QUALIFIER APRIL 5-6 

Power Surge 96 comes home to San Diego as Champions of the Field of Dreams Triple Crown Qualifier in Palm Springs.  This was a very quality tournament with 30 teams from all over the Western States. 

For this young team to win against mostly older 12U 95 teams is certainly impressive.  But to know how Power Surge won is even more impressive.  PS96 gave up only 7 runs in 7 games.  PS96 scored 48 runs.  A huge stat is Power Surge hit 15 home runs in the tournament sending its opponents outfielders deep every game.

This team is truly reaching the potential we felt it has.  Still more improvement will make this great team even better.

Congrats girls, you won a great tournament being the best you can be.

It was an eye opening weekend for our young team at one of the best tournaments of the early Travel season.  Argueably 4 to 5 of the top teams in the country were at this tournament.  It was a time for our very successful team to see where we stand with the 'Big Dogs'.

We played three games that we were in and were very competitive winning one of them fortunately in Bracket play.  We did face the Anderson Heat who won the touranment and Corona Angels 95 who finished 2nd in the other two games we played.  They showed us we have still a long way to go to compete with them.  Both teams are tremendously well coached with great players.

Power Surge's gutty 6th graders played their first 14U tournament this past weekend.  And, as has been the case, surprised us all by being super competitive.  Power Surge went 2-2 in the event against 8th and 9th graders.  It continues to amaze me that this young group can keep improving and play with the best.  In our playoff game we lost by one run to a much bigger and obviously older 14U team we made the last out of the game at home plate on a great play to stop us from scoring. 

 Great job ladies.  Keep improving every day.