The LadyCats were ready to play after a week off and we headed to Ruidoso, NM to battle it out in a field of 24 teams. The girls started off strong in pool play winning their first two games against the 06 Cowgirls and Victory Fastpitch 5-0 and 8-1 respectively. This allowed us to earn the 1 seed out of our pool giving us a first round bye. Our first game on Saturday was against the EC Sliders. The girls came out sluggish giving up too many errors in the first couple of innings and not being able to string together any hits, late rallies only did so much, earning ourselves a 7-5 loss, placing us into the losers bracket right off the bat. Our next game was against the Rams of El Paso and the ladies were able to show their sticks again winning 10-3. The next bracket game was late at 9:45 pm and the girls showed that they were not fatigued winning the game 16-0 against the Rhinos. After ending around 11 pm the girls had to return for the 8 am game against the 06 Cowgirls and were able to pull out the victory with great defense and pitching along with some timely hitting 3-1. With a one game break our next game was against the Lubbock Shock. This was a battle for the girls as they tried to come back but yet again as was the case with our first bracket game, too many errors and not enough hits came together and we lost 6-5. A highlight of our Lubbock Shock game was for Toni Gonzalez who was able to hit her first out of the park homerun. The girls finished in 7th place in the end. The ladies will get back to work to prepare for our trip to Corpus Christi in a few days for the USSSA Coastal Classic. We will continue to grow as a team and to try to improve our standings. Go LadyCats!
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