Great Lesson with Coach Bastian

Alicia met with Coach Bastian last night for a five hour lesson. They worked on sport psychology issues, pitching , slapping and base running. Alicia's time from home to first base is 2.8 secs and from home to home is 13.1 secs. Coach Bastian said the fastest time in the world is 2.6 secs from home to first.

Coach Bastian showed her the proper mechanics on how to slap from the left hand side.

He showed her how to hold a rise ball and when she threw it is would rise and curve, which is rare.

Tournament news

Alicia just returned from the Music City Hits tournament just outside of Nashville, TN. Her team had a frustrating time at this tournament. Alicia experienced some frustration as well with a batting slump. Her coach wants her to slap and Alicia is still working on her slapping skills. Hopefully the Slapping Clinic in Colorado will help with this. In her first tournament see was batting around 400.

Alicia has become very comfortable in the outfield. Her fielding percentage is .889 with one error. Most people would consider the error a hit. In her last game in TN she made a beautiful running caught on the right field line. Her speed helps her get the job done.
Alicia is called in to be the base bandit due to her speed. This photo shows her taking a lead off second base. Even the 18u team asked to be on stand by in the dug out due to her speed.
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We will be posting the Colorado Sparkler game schedule soon.

Music City Hits tournament schedule

Here is the schedule so far for the Music City Hits Tournament in Nashville, TN starting on Thursday June 16th, 2011.

June 16th 9am TFS vs. TN Team Worth 95
June 16th 10:45am TFS vs. AL Crusaders
June 16th 4pm TFS vs. OH Cincy Storm
June 17th 9am TFS vs. KY Southern KY Crush
June 17th 12:30 TFS vs. KY Outrage 95

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.