The 2008 Birmingham Mustangs

"Daddy's Girl" Smokey Mountain Challenge

Yes a GREAT TIME was had in the Great Smokey Mtns this weekend! Dollywood, eating, Laser Tag, Swimming, oh yeah, and plenty of GREAT Softball!!

The Mustangs took on teams from Tennessee and Ohio to go UNDEFEATED in the "Daddy's Girl"Smokey Mountain Challenge this Father's Day weekend. All 13 girls got to play this weekend and everyone contributed to a great Tournament Win!


Sammy or "STRETCH" as she is now known, ruled first base and made a LOT of game winning grabs to keep us going when times were tough..... Neil had a game winning steal sliding in under the tag at home to beat the White Lightning and send us to the championship game.... and Ashley's hit in the last inning of the championship game took a one run lead and stretched it to a 4 run lead that The White Lightning could not overcome. On the Pitching side, Shelby B had two great games this weekend including the Championship game shutting out the opponents in both games and a "No Hitter" in the first game! All of our girls played great games and in any game you can find a Championship play made by a different girl!


Even the Fans got into the games and took over the park! The Mustangs Fans should have gotten an award for cheering and doing the wave in their Fan Participation!

Lot of great plays were made and I'm sure Rin will cover them on our website so watch out there for his post and I'll try to post some pictures of Dollywood and the games soon!!!

ADD ON:
The Birmingham Mustangs traveled to Pigeon Forge TN to play in the
Daddy's Girl Smokey Mtn Challenge.
Competing with teams from 4 states The Birmingham Mustangs
came away Undefeated and Tournament Champions!

More Player Accomplishments!!!

#22 "Sammy" has just been picked for the Winfield Junior Varsity Volleyball Team!!! Sam Plays 1st base and Pitcher for the Mustangs and has been our leading "Long Ball" hitter with 3 Homeruns for the season! Congratulations Sam!!

A Photo Essay from Madison...by Cheryl Wray

"What are the girls doing out here in the pool? You know we have a game in two hours!! I cannot believe you guys!"

"Honest, Coach. We really don't know what you're talking about..."

"Besides, look how cute they all are. And I'm sure that they'll play perfectly today, even if they are dehydrated and worn out..."

"They'll probably even win another tournament for us..."

"Of course," (Rin says), "If they hadn't been in the pool all morning, we wouldn't have had to play until midnight."

GO MUSTANGS!

Spring Thunder Rumble Champions!!

Tournament Summary
Today was another great day to be a Mustang. We went 3-1 on the day with our only loss coming at the hands of Total Chaos. We started off slow but after getting it handed to us by the Chaos we woke up proceeded to win another championship leaving no doubt. Today we were lead offensivley Rebecca who had a L/H slap Homerun as well as Sam, Shelby B, Shelby M and our Amazing Grace with her big hit. Defense was good enough while the pitching led the way all day long. Montana and Grace combined for the win in the Championship game while Sam threw strong in her outing this weekend. Great Job Ladies we took another step closer towards our end of season goals. -Coach Rin

The Mustangs have a lot to be proud of with a group of'96 girls and 1 '97 they have manage to win 4 Tournaments along with 2 runner up trophies, and 1 semi-final finish in 8 Tournaments.

GO MUSTANGS!

Mother's Day OFF

Tournament Summary
This weekend we started off short handed but ended Saturday's play with just enough to overcome a tremendous effort on the part of the NA Cats, in the Championship Game, who scored 5 runs in their last at bat. With no time remaining we came to bat in the bottom half of the inning needing 1 run to tie and 2 to win........and 2 is what we got! Neil our "Covergirl" led the inning off with a walk and eventually scored the tying run. Then Ashley known to us as "Forrest"......"Run Forrest Run".....thats just what Ashley did she ran home with the winning run. Once again our defense had GREAT moments, our pitching got the job done and our offense was timely. We overcame some mistakes on our way to going undefeated in 5 games which is something as coaches we are glad to see our teams do. Once again USSSA put on a nicely ran event and each team from their fans, coaches and players showed a lot of class..............GO MUSTANGS!!!!!

More Player Accomplishments

Delaney and Shelby B showed how they can be number one in the classroom as well as on the field. Both racked up on awards at the Hueytown Middle School Academic Awards Day on Friday, May 9th, just before heading to Huntsville to win the Mother's Day Off tournament!


Delaney and the HMS Choir took 2nd place in the Music Awards in Atlanta, Ga. Choirs from 6 states participated. HMS took 2nd place and earned an "Excelent" rating on their performance.

Track and Volleyball !!

Delaney and Shelby B made the Hueytown Middle School's Volleyball team. After Two Days of tryouts, the results were posted and they are now part of the team! In addition Delaney is running the Mile and doing the Softball throw for the HMS track team.

Congratulations Delaney and Shelby!

Madison Mystics Spring Magic

Well, the Spring Magic was not with the Mustangs on this tournament. The lack of hitting was a strong contributer to this weekends poor performance. The Mustangs went 1-2 for the weekend.

The upbeat side was once again this group never gave up. Down 7-2 in the last at bat, they scored another 3 and had the winning run at the plate when we finally got that last out that sent us home.

The Mustangs are NEVER a team to give up and they keep fighting even when things aren't going our way. Remember, there will always be bad days, but never quit fighting!!

Go Mustangs!

Central Alabama Spring Invitational

Once again, after a full day of softball, the Birmingham Mustangs 11U team find thereselves in the championship game.

The Mustangs went undefeated till the championship game, when a grand slam put the Freedom Fastpitch team up early. The Mustangs were never able to come back.

The Mustangs were able to take a win earlier in the day over Freedom, but Freedom got there win when it counted, in the Championship Game. The Mustangs were on a 7 game winning streak at the time.

Congratulations Mustangs on your 4th Finals Finish in 5 tournaments!!




Go Mustangs!