09/01/2026
🥈2nd place in our first travel 14u tournament 🔥🖤🩶🤍
We headed down to Las Cruces this weekend to start our second year of 12U, but this time we decided to challenge the girls by playing in the 14U division.
We knew there would be struggles and adjustments playing against older girls, and that’s exactly what we wanted.
After starting 0-2 in pool play and losing a tough 4-3 game early in bracket play, we found ourselves in the losers bracket. From there, our girls just kept battling.
They won 6-4 to get us into Sunday, then came back the next day and won 10-0, 14-4 and 11-5 to fight their way into the championship game.
By that point, they had already played 8 games in the heat and were running on fumes. We came up short in the championship, but walked away with a second place finish in our first out-of-town 14U tournament.
One thing we always talk about with the girls is being comfortable with being uncomfortable. We challenge them physically and mentally in practice because eventually they’re going to find themselves in situations where things aren’t easy.
My message to them at the plate against the older girls all weekend was simple:
“Challenge yourself.”
And they did.
We don’t expect to win just because we show up. Winning comes from putting in the work, competing and learning how to respond when things don’t go your way.
This weekend we got to watch our girls struggle, adjust and keep competing.
The sky is the limit for this group.
