The LadyCats were in action from 19 June through 22 June in Lubbock, Texas for a 33 team tournament and a 10 game guarantee. The first day of pool action the girls were ready for 5 pool games, with the second day containing 3 pool games. The first of these pool games was against Blu By U from Arkansas. The beginning of this game looked very bright with our girls putting up 5 runs with two outs on the board. Going into the bottom of the 1st with a 5 run lead our girls were able to maintain the lead but only after giving up 4 runs. Blu By U scored 3 more runs in the 2nd and were able to pull out the victory 7-5, but the girls knew that this game would not define their tournament and bounced back in the next game against Shockwave and were able to win with a score of 11-1. Continuing our momentum the girls then won the next 6 pool games, some close and others not. The Cats posted a 7-1 record allowing 12 runs and scoring 54. The ladies were done about 3 pm and awaited the bracket posting by letting off some steam at 50th Street Caboose and hanging around at the hotel. The bracket was posted and our girls were focused with Divas 2000 Plus being our first game on Saturday. The girls came out and battled, but the Divas were not going to go down easily and took our LadyCats to ITB. We were the visiting team and we were able to manufacture a run in our at bats. The Divas were not able to match that run with excellent pitching and defense and our girls won 5-4. Our next game was set to be against TTA 01. Yet another battle back and forth with lots of hits and runs for both teams, yet our girls stayed resilient and showed their toughness pulling out the victory 10-7. The next bracket game was against the Dirty South. Our girls went out and played excellent for 3 innings of ball. The score after 3 was Dirty South up 4-3. Being the home team we knew we were in striking distance, but the 4th inning proved extremely tough for our young ladies and Dirty South put up 10 runs and in our at bat we were only able to manufacture 1 for a final score of 14-4. Being in the losers bracket, we knew we had our battles upcoming because every team wanted to make it to Sunday. With a scheduled game of 9:30 pm and with the Dirty South game ending at 9:30, our girls had no rest while the Chaos team was able to take a bit of a breather after their last game and our girls didn't miss a beat coming back out. Chaos proved to be a formidable team especially after their 2 run over the fence homerun, but our girls stayed motivated and pulled out the victory 5-4. We had reached our first goal of making it to Sunday because the way the tournament was designed there would only be 4 teams returning on Sunday. The girls went to their beds knowing that they had an early morning ahead of them. At 8 am the girls came back to the fields to play ball with Lubbock Shock. We had seen this team twice before and we had split our meetings. The girls battled, but in the end the Lubbock Shock pulled out the victory 8-6 to send us back home with a 4th place showing. Our girls battled through the crazy wind and the weather delays that we encountered in Lubbock to play 13 games and finish 10-3. Our girls went home with bumps and bruises and even a broken bat, but the LadyCats played well most of the tournament and showed that we are capable of doing even better. We are now preparing for The Big Event in Las Cruces, NM next weekend. Let's go get it ladies, you set your own goals and let's do everything to make those goals a reality. Go LadyCats!
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