A hard fought three days in Rohnert Park in the Rebels Classic saw the Wildcats best finish of the year. The Rebel Classic draws the best teams from the area and the Wildcats proved they belonged right there finishing third overall losing in the Semi Finals on Sunday afternoon. The girls started hot on Friday night against the San Anselmo Storm with a big win. Saturday saw two games, a tough loss against the Rebels after taking a 4-1 lead in the third inning. Responding in a big way, the Wildcats would face a good squad from Berkeley who had beaten us twice last week in Benicia. The Wildcats would find themselves down by 1 in the final inning, as the visitor we would score 2 in the top of the inning to take the lead and then defense would shut the door 1-2-3 in the bottom of the last. For Friday and Saturdays work the Wildcats would earn the # 2 seed in the Sunday bracket. A Sunday morning game against the Fire n Ice gave the girls a chance to advance to the Semi Finals. They would do just that with a convincing win as the bats continued the assault. Semi Finals brought the girls to where they want to be, in the final four in the tournament. Make no mistake they deserved to be in that Final Four. A strong start against a good Hackers squad had the Wildcats fired up. In a Semi Final game against another solid team it only takes a couple of bad bounces or close plays to make it tough. One tough inning on defense put the Wildcats in a tough spot. Proving once again that you cannot teach heart, the girls refused to quit battling to the last out. Hitting through the lineup in the last inning putting runs up on the board. As the time limit expired on the Wildcats effort no heads were down. A great 3 days of softball, and for that a well deserved 3rd Place finish for the ladies. The team got better with each and every game, every at bat, every chance on D. Bats were on the ball all weekend. Defense much improved from Benicia, made more plays. The Wildcats will continue to practice, continue to work hard and get better. Soft hands and grounders will be the focus this week and next as we move towards Cloverdale July 30-Aug 1. With all tournaments there were some truly outstanding performances worthy of highlight:
Mackenzie and Taylor would continue to swing hot bats both finishing the weekend 10-15 at the plate, scoring almost half of the Wildcats runs.
Hillary would break out the heavy lumber and swing the bat great 8-12 on the weekend batting clean up.
Linzey started to see the ball better netting 5 hits over the tournament.
On Defense Maddi played almost flawless at 2B all weekend, and Haley continued her stellar play at catcher without any backup.
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