Blue #12

Hanover Thunder Fastpitch Softball!!

Thunder Pride...

Thunder Blue takes 1st Place in USSSA OutRAGEous End of Summer tournament...

Thunder Blue traveled to Tappahanock the weekend of September 22-23 to play in the 4-team USSSA OutRAGEous End of Summer Blowout. The tournament is sponsored by the Northern Neck Rage — playing in the 12U group against the host team, the East Coast Diamonds, and the Vienna Stars, the Thunder posted 5 straight wins to earn the tournament title…

In pool-play on Saturday, the Thunder cruised to an 11-1 win over the East Coast Diamonds — scoring 6 in the first inning and another 4 in the second to put the game away. In the second game of pool-play, the Thunder scored in each of the 3-innings played against the host Northern Neck Rage to get a 6-1 win. In the final game on Saturday, the Thunder clinched the #1 seed going into Sunday with a 7-0 win over the Vienna Stars.

On Sunday, the Thunder scored 4 runs in each of the 3 innings played against the Diamonds (final score 12-1) to move to the Championship game against the Vienna Stars. In a tough 7-inning battle, the Thunder put up 4 in the first and maintained the lead in the hard-hitting, good fielding game to earn the 5-2 victory and 1st place in the tournament…

Thunder Snippets:

¨ Pitchers Shannon A, Lindsey N, and Traci S gave up only 5 runs the entire tournament (in 21 innings)...

¨ Traci S made her pitching debut (3 appearances, 5 innings pitched, only 2 runs allowed), highlighted by a 4 strikeout inning in the semi-finals against the Diamonds (1 batter reached on a dropped 3rd strike)…

¨ Lindsey N (0.583 average, 1.000 slugging %, 2 doubles, HR), Shannon A (0.429 average, double, triple, 9 RBI, at least 1 hit in every game), and Shawna K (0.400 average, 4 runs scored) led the Thunder bats…

¨ Megan I batted 0.375 with on on-base average of 0.545...

¨ Ashley B, Brianna J, Courtney D, and Lynnse C all had an on-base percentage over 0.300…

¨ Courtney D had 2 monster triples in the tournament…

¨ Hard-hitting Lindsay W contributed 8 RBI…

¨ The team defense was outstanding throughout the tournament, limiting opponents to only 5 runs on 5 hits…

¨ Thunder thoughts and prayers were with the Depew family after the passing of huge team fan, supporter, and family member Jim Adamy...

¨ The Kelley’s (Caler kin) were once again unbelievable hosts to the Thunder family Saturday afternoon and evening — good food (pork, chicken wings, crabs, shrimp, etc) and good fellowship was enjoyed by all on the picture-perfect day at the River…

Thunder Pics: