A-Mac Brampton Tourney Summary

Ramblings... no pictures...

After watching a lot of girls fastpitch I have realized that girls get better each year. An average 14 year old is naturally better than an average 13 year old. The annual improvement is significant. An average 14 year old is better than a good 13 year old. (This is one of the reasons we have Lil Lefty on a team primarily made up of kids her own age... even though they are playing older teams.) A-Mac is at least a year younger than 9 of the girls on her team. It is a compliment to her that she is on the team.

She is in a slump at the plate. She does NOT strike out but has seemed to have lost her "mojo" with the training she received on the "load and step". She has been hitting weak ground balls to the second basemen. We are working to correct, and get her back to hitting line drives into the outfield.

This weekend she made significant strides. She hit two hard ground balls between short and third, which means her timing is improving and she is getting her bat through the strike zone quicker.

Her tournament was significantly shortened because of the weather and she only played four games over two three days. I absolutely HATE that I missed a game on Sunday because I was at Lil Lefty's game... something I will have to accept with three kids all playing ball.

During the game I saw on Sunday (with MacDaddy) she made two nice plays at thirdbase throwing runners out at first.

A-Mac's team played 4 games in what turned out to be just pool play and won all four. They played in the 16 (and under) age group. A-Mac is 12.