Softball - US Central Regional (Joplin, MO)

[MountainThunder]

Here is the schedule I just recieved today on who North Laurel (Kentucky) will be facing in pool play in the Little League US Central Regional.

 

Monday, July 30th

Kentucky vs Missouri (330pm CST)

Kentucky vs Michigan (730pm CST)

 

Tuesday, July 31st

Kentucky vs Iowa (530pm CST)

 

Wednesday, August 1st

Kentucky vs Kansas (330pm CST)

 

The top 6 teams based on pool play, will be seeded according to performance and play a single elimination quarter/semifinals match.

 

Thursday, August 2nd

Field 1

930am #4 seed vs #6 seed

1200pm #1 seed vs winner of #4 vs #6 seed game

 

Field 2

930am #3 seed vs #5 seed

1230pm #2 seed vs winner of #3 vs #5 seed game

 

Friday, August 3rd

930am Regional Championship Game

[MountainThunder]

1st game

Kentucky 3 Missouri 2

2nd game

Michigan 5 Kentucky 1

 

Kentucky is 1-1, needs to win over Iowa on Tuesday and possibly Kansas on Wednesday to lock up a slot in the final 6 single elimination championship portion of the tourney.

[MountainThunder]

Tuesday

 

Kentucky 9

Iowa 1

 

Kentucky locks up slot in final 6 with win to improve to 2-1 in pool play (behind Michigan at 3-0 in that pool). Kentucky plays Kansas today in the final pool games with the outcome to determine what seed they will be in the final 6.

[LC99]

Glad to see there playing pretty well, hopefully they had a good day today, keep us posted MT.

[MountainThunder]

Kentucky lost in the semifinals to Ohio 10-4. They were in it until the final inning, trailing 2-1, 4-3, and 5-4 before Ohio was able to get some insurance runs. They had a very good tournament and ended up finishing 5th. 2 of their 3 losses came to Michigan (won the championship this morning) and Ohio (runner up). Michigan heads off the World Series next week in Portland, Oregon.

 

The girls did very well and realize that they can compete at a very high level outside of the state! They were sad, but by the afternoon on Thursday, realized that they had accomplished a lot and have a little more confidence in themselves.

 

The pitching was much better when you get to that level and there was only 1 really high scoring game (16-15) in the entire tournament. Most were very low scoring. The entire tournament was played on grass infields, nice bermuda grass, but not something our girls were accustomed to. Michigan plays nearly all their games on grass and you could tell they were more comfortable, especially in playing the slaps and bunts.

 

Congrats girls on a job well done. You represented yourself, your community and your state very well.

 

I will post a team picture shortly.

[MountainThunder]

Front row: Farris Strong, Leann Lederman, Kristin Fields, Megan Baldwin, Katie Elkins

Back row: Blake Johnson, Vanessa Smith, Caitlin Mason, TJ Stuber, Rachel Wright, Sidney Herrell

[Jim Schue]

Good show from the North Laurel girls! :thumb:

[MountainThunder]

Good show from the North Laurel girls! :thumb:

 

Kinda does you proud Jim! You covered many of these girls when they were playing minor league!

[Jim Schue]

Kinda does you proud Jim! You covered many of these girls when they were playing minor league!

 

Yup. I'll be watching from afar and pulling for them … :thumb: