First Tournament

The Sandy Plains Fire 2000 team played their first tournament together this past weekend. The tournament was held at Al Bishop Park in Marietta and there were seventeen 12U teams entered. The first two games were pool games which are simply used to rank the teams.

The first game was against the GA Fire team who are one of the stronger teams around as they have been playing together for several years (they eventually won the entire tournament). Maura started pitching the game and did very well through the first inning. Our leadoff batter, Morgan, reached base and managed to steal home on a nice double steal. After the first inning the SP Fire was down 2-1. The second inning was when the GA Fire found a glaring weakness in our defense. They started to bunt the ball down the first base line. The defense was unable to stop them. After pitching through the lineup, Maura was replaced by Bailey. She didn’t have much better luck with the bunts either. The final score was 10-1. Read more >>