Blue Diamond Spring Fling - Round Rock, TX

The LadyCats were in action this past weekend heading to Round Rock to participate in an 18 team tournament.  Expecting warm weather and sunshine, we should have known the cold was going to rear its ugly head.  Saturday morning started out really cold and so did our girls with the pool games not going very well for the Cats.  The bats were pretty silent and knew that we had to wake them up in order to compete.  We then went into bracket play at 11:30 on Saturday and with the sun finally peeking out of the clouds, the girls showed off their defense and hitting skills.  Playing TX Stix 00, the Ladycats were able to get out ahead and stay ahead winning by run rule in the 3rd 11-1.  The second bracket game was at 2:30 and we were facing the SA Tapout 01 and the girls battled tough scoring 4 in the first and 1 in the 3rd, but allowing 5 in the 2nd, we went into ITB. With runners on 2nd and 3rd, the girls did not allow them to score a run and we were able to score on a walk off hit.  The next game was immediately after against Texas Freeze and the girls seemed a little deflated during the game and were not able to keep their sticks going and fell 7-2 putting us into the losers bracket in the morning.  Winning those few games helped tremendously and allowed us to come back for our game at 12:30 on Sunday against Pumas.  The girls once again came out firing scoring runs and held them off 7-4 winning on a crazy spectacular play consisting of getting two girls out at second base.  Our next game was immediately after against SA Tapout yet again.  This was another scrappy game going back and forth, ending up tied in the 4th with one more inning to play.  Unfortunately this time we were the visiting team and were unable to score any runs leaving the door open for the other team who scored with a walkoff hit.  The girls played exceptional and were able to take 4th place out of this amazing group of 18 teams.  We still have lots to work on and areas we need to sustain and are looking forward to traveling to Tucson in two weeks for the Pitch for the Cure tournament.  Great job parents and ladies in being committed to this great organization and hope for many more successes as we move forward.  Go Cats!