2011 Carolina Cardinals Early Bird Schedule

Team TFS will not be playing until Saturday June 11th of the 2011 Carolina Cardinals Early Bird tournament.
Here is the schedule of our playtime for the weekend of June 11th, 2011 to June 12th, 2011.

June 11th 9:00am @ Cherry Park Field 5 TFS 9 vs. Denver Dazzle( Johnson) 1
Won first game 9-1, Alicia was the base bandit.
June 11th 3:00pm @ Eagle Park Field 3 TFS vs. Gold Coast Hurricane
Lost 2nd game 14-0 , Alicia had a nice catch in Center Field
June 11th 6:00pm @ Cherry Park Filed 4 TFS vs. SC Bandits (Stancil)
Won 2-0 , game called in 2nd inning due to lightening, Alicia started at left field did not get up to bat.
June 12th 11:15am @ Cherry Park Field 3 TFS vs. Caro Wildcats(Allsbrook)
Nice running catch at center field by Alici. The Wildcats coach yelled to his team " watch out this one has wheels" when Alicia got up to bat.
June 12th 12:45pm @ Cherry Park Field 3 TFS vs. Catawba Vall Storm Blue TFS won 4-1, Elon scout watching one of our girls.

Mr. Daly overhead one of the University of Tennessee scouts saying the main thing they are looking for is speed.

Busy weekend

This has been a busy weekend for Alicia. It started out Friday night with a pitching lesson with Coach Bastian. She traveled to Creedmoor for a four hour lesson. During that lesson she works on not only pitching but balance and mental training for the game. Alicia is required to have a Coach B softball notebook, in which she writes down what she learned and needs to work on. You should see how many pages she filled after one session.

From Creedmoor they traveled three plus hours to Florence, SC for the Memorial Day Shoot Out. She got to bed after 2am in the morning but was still able to play well the next day.

Alicia found she was one of the few players with a red freshman wrist band in a sea of blue and purple wrist bands. Their first pool game was against the SC Bandits with Coach Stancil. TFS tied the game 1-1. Alicia played in left field. She went one for two with a beautiful bunt that the other team was not expecting.

TFS then played the Coastal Lightning and lost 7-6. Once again Alicia was in the left field. She again went 1 for 2 and came in to score. She hit a ball over the first baseman's head and into the shallow outfield. Alicia was taking more aggressive leads off the bases and had to dive back.

There last pool game was against the Wateree Wildcats which was tied 0-0 and called in the 5th inning due to lightening.

Sunday was Double elimination brackets with their first game against the Coastal Lightning. This time they lost 5-3. Alicia was the base bandit for this game.
The last game of the day was against the SC Bandits in which TFS lost 4-2. Alicia played left field and then center field but did not hit this game.

Alicia went 2-5 in this tournament so her batting average is around a 400.

Softball and more Softball

Softball has slowed up for about two weeks. The Lady Nighthawks are done with their high school season and the afternoons are a bit slower but not for long. Alicia is getting in a few hitting lessons with her hitting coach, working on her pitching and preparing for finals.

By next Thursday things will start picking up again.

Elite Pitching Lessons

Alicia is excited and fired up to be working with Michael Bastian. They had a four hour session yesterday. Some of the lesson was getting to know each other and working on developing a working athlete/coach relationship.

Exciting Times

Alicia is excited that she has been called up to varsity for what ever is left of their season and playoffs.
She is very excited that she has her first 2-3 hour pitching lesson with the former Chinese Olympic coach and founder of The Fastpitch School, Michael Bastain.
Alicia has started working out at the Rush again and will most likely work with a trainer over the summer, in between all her travel tournaments.
She has had a large amount of attention on her showcase profiles. She has over 10 colleges currently looking at her. In the past month she had over 1200+ looks at her showcase profile.

An out getting machine

Alicia did awesome yesterday against the Eastern Alamance JV softball team. In the first game she had one ball hit back at her and she made it look so easy. She reached out her glove and caught it. In the second game she played first base and short stop. She caught a foul ball that was over by the dugout. She made most of the outs for the game and now likes playing first base. She has her first pitching lesson with Michael Bastian on May 3rd.

Busy summer coming

Alicia is preparing for a busy showcase travel season. Her first two tournaments she will be playing 18u. She is excited about traveling to South Carolina, Nashville Tennessee and Colorado. In Colorado she will attend a clinic with the US softball players on slapping. During the week she will also be playing for the Greensboro Girls Fastpitch Softball league in their 15 and up division. The first week in May she starts working with Michael Bastain, former Chinese Softball Olympic coach. And last but not least she will be taking driver's education.