Spring Fling - Las Cruces, NM

The LadyCats were in action this past weekend at Maag park in Las Cruces, NM for the Spring Fling tournament.  Excited to get on the diamond, we drew the 8:00 and 10:00 a.m. pool games against Victory and Cruces Pride respectfully.  The pool play started out rough, with the girls struggling to hit the ball well.  Defensively, we looked ready to have a great tourney, just had to get our bats going.  We won the first pool game 4-0 and lost the second pool game 2-1 earning the fifth seed out of 14 teams.  Our first game was against NM Fire 2001 and the girls finally found their sticks and blew up for 13 runs in the 2nd inning, allowing them to win 18-4.  This placed us against the EC Sliders in our next game and the girls continued their dominating defense and continued to utilize their bats winning the game 8-0.  This placed us into our fifth game of the day against Team Crush.  A true defensive battle that resulted in a 3-1 score in favor of Crush, dropping us into the losers bracket for Sunday morning.  Our next game was against NM Rhinos and the girls picked up with great defense and used their sticks well earning a 9-0 win.  With a one game break we then faced El Paso Dynamite and the girls repeated their performance winning 9-0.  Going into the third place game, we were facing Dirty South.  Unable to get a beat on the ball, the girls struggled with their sticks and ended up losing this game 7-0.  The girls had an excellent weekend and played very well defensively and used their bats efficiently.  We look forward to growing as a team and being even better for the next tournament.  Congratulations LadyCats on earning third in this tournament.  Go Cats!

Girls gotta have fun!