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.

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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.

Power Surge comes off a week layoff and showed its rust losing its first game.  But the rest of the day we played well and won our last two games.

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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 had another great weekend.  Very important for our team from this past weekend was that we beat one of the teams that are known as a top 10 team in the country, the San Diego Renegades 95.  If you have followed how we have done against the top 10 95 teams we have not faired well.  But we have improved each time we have played a top 95 team.  Now to beat one of the country's top 95 teams we have made a major breakthrough. 

Our pitching staff also threw two no-hitters this weekend and gave up only two hits to the Renegades.  Not bad. 

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Power Surge had another very good weekend going up to Downey, Ca. to play some top 12U teams.  Power Surge came home winning all three games it played.  The pitching was outstanding giving up only 4 runs in the three games played.  We also hit some long home runs to keep our power numbers up.  We have now won 23 of our last 27 games. 

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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. 

Our young stars played six games this past weekend in two different Friendlies and won them all!  One Friendly was a 14U Friendly which makes it more of an accomplishment.

This amazing team continues to show it can win in many ways.  The past few weeks we won mostly with the long ball on offense.  This week we won some big games with our short game using our great speed, bunting, and slapping.  Another weapon for this team is a scary thought.

We now are 18-1-1 in our last 20 games with a tournament win in Palm Springs in those 20 games. 

We now head up to Fresno this coming weekend for the top tournament in the country featuring all the top teams from the west.  Our young gals I hope will be a factor.

--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.

After winning the huge Field Of Dreams tournament last weekend we were a little flat this weekeend.  Defensively we just were not ourselves making many errors.  But the bats stayed hot and kept us in every game.  We expect this team now to win every game and if Quicksilver had not hit a game-winning 2-run walk off home run we would have.

Power Surge 12U 96 had a very good Friendly this past weekend scoring 26 runs and giving up only 5.  We played one of what is called the top 10 teams in SoCal and beat them, Minors Gold.

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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 96 12U would like to thank all the teams for playing in our Friendly.  The weather was great, our snack bar was a huge success, and the fields were manicured to perfection by our great grounds crew.

As for the games Power Surge 96 12U went 4-0 and scored a whopping 58 runs and allowed only 2 runs.  This team is really coming along. 

Here we go again, this young group of obviously very talented girls surprising everyone again by qualifiying in there first tournament of the year for Triple Crown Nationals in Park City, Utah.  All I can say is the girls played great in finishing 3rd in the Hemet Triple Crown Qualifier. 

The one area that this team has been lacking is power in their hitting.  Not their fault as most of the girls are pretty small.  But this tournament the girls hit with tremendous power.  We must have hit at least 5-6 home runs and 10 triples.  It was fun to watch.

 I can't wait until next week to see what this team will do next.

Power Surge had a very successful Sunday Friendly going 4-1.  Yep, we played 5 games in one day picking up 2 games of a team that dropped out.  That is a lot of games for this young team. We wanted to see how they would hold up in an all-day situatuion playing from 8 in the morining til dark.  Well, we won the last game 15-0 showing that we were ready to play 1 game or 5 games in a day.

 We beat some very good teams along the way beating Bomb Squad, OC Batbusters, and American Pastime.  Nice job ladies! 

Power Surge played in a 12u Friendly this past weekend and won two games and tied the last.  We have certainly played better and will. Scores; Power Surge 4  American Athletics -96 3 Power Surge 8  Strokes 0 P ower Surge 2  Corona Angels 96 2

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.

Power Surge 12U 96 Birthdays would like to introduce its 2008 team.  We look forward to great things from this team as it has been assembled with the best Rec All-Stars in San Diego County. 

Power Surge 2008: 

Carlee Wallace--Santee ASA

Alexis Ellis-Alvarez--Santee ASA

Kaylie Felix--UC Del Sol ASA

Ahnalin Barkhimer--Santee ASA

Emma Sloman--Valley Center ASA

Erin Mario--Penasquitos ASA

Katie Schultz--Penasquitos ASA

Tiana Miller--Rancho Berndardo ASA

Kourtney Aimalefoa--UC Del Sol ASA

Kailey Hill--Romona ASA

Sara White--Rancho Bernardo ASA 

Power Surge 12U hosted a very successful Friendly this past weekend.  Some of the top teams from all over SoCal attended and the competition was high.  Renegades, Corona Angels, OC Wildcats, Nemisis, TNL, and Quicksilver were some of the teams that attended.  We want to thank all the teams that attended.

As for how our Power Surge team did we went 2-1 beating the OC Wildcats 6-4 and Nemisis 4-3, and lost to the Corona Angels 6-5.  We played pretty well but need to eliminate the 11U mistakes.