This week’s All Star Baseball Academy Team of the Week Award goes to ASBA Warminster Mayhem (14U). They were 5-0 for the weekend of April 28thand 29th, winning the DB Inferno Summer Warm-Up Tournament in Douglassville, PA. They are coached by Danielle Byrne and Jessica Russ.
The 14U squad came out swinging in the opening game of the tournament, walloping the PA Fusion in a 12-2 win. Their next two wins would not come as easy, as they had to come from behind to beat the Chester Stars 11-10 and DB Inferno 10-9 in the last inning of each game. The team rode the momentum from their come from behind wins to beat the Berwyn Firecrackers 15-5 to advance to the championship game. Pitted against UM Synergy, the 14U squad was able to close out the weekend with a solid 9-4 win to bring home the championship trophy.
Offensively, the team scored a whopping 57 runs in just 5 games. The top offensive performers for the weekend were Taylor Marinelli, Emily Cosgrove, Sophia Kent and Morgan Seader. Marinelli led the team with 9 hits in 15 at-bats, while scoring 8 runs and driving in 7. 3 of her 9 hits were for extra bases. Kent, Cosgrove and Seader all had 6 hits apiece, and each had multiple extra base hits as well. Kent led the team with 4 extra base hits, including a home run. Cosgrove drove in a team high 8 runs for the weekend.
The team got stellar pitching from Jen Hammons. For the weekend, she pitched a total of 20 innings, allowing just 3 earned runs the entire time. Hammons racked up 29 strikeouts while scattering 7 hits.
Coach Byrne was very pleased with the way her team played in the tournament, saying “I was so proud of our team this weekend. The girls fought hard and never gave up. We had two come from behind wins in the last inning and executed all of the fundamentals of the game. We hit, we moved runners over and were aggressive on the bases. Defensively we fielded all the routine plays and pitched well. I am very excited to see what else these girls can do this summer. It was a great way to start out the season with our first tournament."
ASBA Mayhem plays again the weekend of May 19th and 20th at USSSA May Madness in Quakertown, PA.
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