Though an all-girls baseball team suffered two losses at this weekend’s Midland Winter Blast tournament, each player left with a bigger, united dream still intact. Each wants to be the first female to make it to the big leagues.
The Dream Team, composed of 11 girls between the ages of 12 and 13 from across the U.S., defeated a boys team from Hobbs by 10-2 on Saturday, and subsequently lost 7-8 to the Diamond Kings from Odessa. On Sunday, the team lost 0-2 in the last inning on two RBIs after intentionally walking a player from Crossfire Baseball of Amarillo.
The team was formed after the girls had a chance to play together in a tournament last summer and has already made history by being the first all-girls baseball team to be invited to the USSSA World Series baseball tournament in July. Assistant coach Randall McCrackin said the team’s ultimate goal this year is to qualify for the USSSA Elite World Series, which consists of the top 32 baseball teams of each age group in the U.S.
‘The girls love to play baseball,’ McCrackin said. ‘They don’t want someone to throw them the ball slower or for the field to be smaller…’
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hello! i’m very interesting it. I like girls play baseball. I’m a girl and i have been playing baseball for 2 years. My team’s name is ‘Elephants’. We are mongolian. Our team is first girls baseball team in mongolia. We united in 2008. We have 9 players at this moment. When we started to play by team we have been playing with boys team. Then we won bronze medal from our first competition in Mongolia.It participated around 12 teams.Then we participated in many competition in Mongolia. We won some competition. We are only one girls team of Mongolian baseball national federation. So we want to relate foreign country’s girls baseball team. Please help us to relate other country’s girls team. We like to relate to them. We hope.
Our e-mail address: elephants_mgl@yahoo.com
Mongolian baseball national federation’s e-mail address: mongolbaseball@ymail.com
Please give us reply.