World Series & Nationals Updates
10u Diamonds Elite: The 10U Sioux Falls Diamonds Elite placed second in the ASA Northern Nationals in Rochester, MN. The Diamonds Elite met up with a team from Tulsa Oklahoma who was a very talented group of girls with a lot of diamond experience. Diamonds Elite went 3-0 in bracket play Saturday and set up a semi-final match with the Tulsa Oklahoma Eagles Sunday morning. Elite lost to the Eagles 9-1. Elite then had to play the winner of the losers bracket the OskKosh, WI Raiders. The Raiders where the Wisconsin State A 2011 Champions. Elite came out on top 5-2 to earn a spot in the championship game. The Eagles proved to be to much for the Elite in the championship game and lost 9-0. The Diamonds Elite played an outstanding tournament taking down some of the top tallent from Illionois, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota.
12u Diamonds X-treme: Congrats to the X-treme who placed 4th in the 12U “B” USSSA World Series Nationals in Lawrence, KS. The girls played 11 games over 5 days in 100+ temps.
14u Diamonds Fire: Congrats to the Fire who placed 4th in the 14U “B” NAFA Grand Nationals in Omaha, NE. The girls played 10 games over 4 days in 100+ temps. The girls went 2-1 in pool play and then lost their first game in bracket play. The girls them battled back through the losers bracket over next two days and 7 games. They found themselves in a showdown with their sister team, Blue going up 5-0 right away. Blue battled back beating Fire 5-6 in the end.
14u Diamonds Gold: The Gold went 4-3 in the USSSA World Series in Orlando 14u A. Tied for 17 in 41 team tournament. The girls played their hearts out and even in their three losses they played well. Very proud of the girls. Now we head in to the fall season. We are looking for two top players to add to our team as we are at nine players for next summer.
16u Diamonds Black: Congrats to the Black who placed 4th in the 16U “A” Gold NAFA Grand Nationals in Omaha, NE.