This week’s All Star
Baseball Academy Team of the Week Award goes to ASBA Warminster Mayhem (14U). They were 5-0 for the weekend of April 28th
and 29th, winning the DB Inferno Summer Warm-Up Tournament in
Douglassville, PA. They are coached by
Danielle Byrne and Jessica Russ.
The 14U squad came out
swinging in the opening game of the tournament, walloping the PA Fusion in a
12-2 win. Their next two wins would not
come as easy, as they had to come from behind to beat the Chester Stars 11-10
and DB Inferno 10-9 in the last inning of each game. The team rode the momentum
from their come from behind wins to beat the Berwyn Firecrackers 15-5 to
advance to the championship game. Pitted
against UM Synergy, the 14U squad was able to close out the weekend with a
solid 9-4 win to bring home the championship trophy.
Offensively, the team
scored a whopping 57 runs in just 5 games.
The top offensive performers for the weekend were Taylor Marinelli,
Emily Cosgrove, Sophia Kent and Morgan Seader.
Marinelli led the team with 9 hits in 15 at-bats, while scoring 8 runs
and driving in 7. 3 of her 9 hits were
for extra bases. Kent, Cosgrove and
Seader all had 6 hits apiece, and each had multiple extra base hits as
well. Kent led the team with 4 extra
base hits, including a home run.
Cosgrove drove in a team high 8 runs for the weekend.
The team got stellar
pitching from Jen Hammons. For the
weekend, she pitched a total of 20 innings, allowing just 3 earned runs the
entire time. Hammons racked up 29
strikeouts while scattering 7 hits.
Coach Byrne was very
pleased with the way her team played in the tournament, saying “I was so proud
of our team this weekend. The girls fought hard and never gave up. We had two come from behind wins in the last
inning and executed all of the fundamentals of the game. We hit, we
moved runners over and were aggressive on the bases. Defensively we
fielded all the routine plays and pitched well. I am very excited to see what else these
girls can do this summer. It was a
great way to start out the season with our first tournament."
ASBA Mayhem plays again
the weekend of May 19th and 20th at USSSA May Madness in
Quakertown, PA.
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