Triple Crown

Melissa blog
Day 1
The So Cal Rampage started their journey for the World Series of Softball in Park City Utah, this weekend in Beaumont, CA. One of the last qualifying tourneys left before the July 7-12 Series was held this past weekend, and we had high hopes for our girls. Game one was exactly what we wanted. The girls came fired up and ready to destroy. We took on the So Cal Wicked fresh off a resent win against us in a friendly at our home field the week before. The Wicked came out and thought they would beat us again. But our girls had other plans. We came out swing bats and making great plays on defense. In the end we proved that no matter what happens in a friendly the Rampage can never be counted out. With a final score of 8-1 we took the first of 3 games of the day.
Game two came after a long break. We faced the team Caught Stealing. We had played them in a friendly a month ago in Victorville, CA. We played them twice that day and split the series. Fresh of a great win earlier against the Wicked our girl brought the same intensity as before. We played hard and kept the energy going and again showed everyone watching that we are here and ready to go to Utah. This game ended much like the last with a final score of 10-4 we took game two.
Game three came at the end of a long hot day. We faced like ourselves an undefeated team the IV Stealth. They are a team from El Centro, Ca. Man can they hit. For some unknown reason our girls did not come out with the energy they did with the first two games. The Stealth was swinging at anything we threw no matter what. Unfortunately our defense fell apart and our batting did not get the job done. We ended our day with a 11-0 lose to give us a 2-1 record and put us in 2nd place in our group for the bracket play on Sunday.
Day 2
After a good night’s sleep our girls arrived with the vision of Utah in their heads. Only two wins were needed. Our first game was pitting us against the Shockers. This was a team that was in a tougher group the day before and ended with a record of 1-2. From the first batter we found out that they came to play. They showed the same intensity and energy that we did just 24 hours before. After a couple of defensive mistakes we ended the first half of the first inning with them scoring 2 on us. We came up to bat and tried to get it started. Unfortunately we ended up leaving one batter on third when the 3rd out was called. The rest of the game was more of the same. We made mistakes; our bats just were not getting it done. They hit two home runs over the fence on us. The game ended with a horrible loss and a score of 9-2.
Our girls were crushed, mad, crying, and not knowing what to do. It looks like our dreams of going to Utah are over…..
Or are they?
We just found out we have one last chance. There is one final qualifying tourney on the last weekend of this month. It will be held in South OC, CA on 6/28 and 6/29. You better know the Rampage will be working our tails off to make sure that one ends differently than this one did. Here is a link to the tourney and the end of the month if anyone wants to attend. http://www.triplecrownsports.com/tourny_detail.asp?tournyid=3053