Max Preps Tournament of Champions Runners Up
The Lady Vikings took to the road on Wednesday March 11, 2009 traveling to Bullhead City, Arizona for the Tournament of Champions where they would try to defend their 2 year run as champions. With 40 teams entered into the tournament it would not be a small task.
San Juan Hills 10-0
On Thursday March 12, the Lady Vikings played San Juan Hills of San Juan Capistrano, California and came out strong with a10-0 win. With Sara Enriquez on the mound throwing a dandy of a game with a 1 hitter and 11 strikeouts. Megan Foglesong started the game with a single advancing to second on a wild throw. Madison Shipman came to the plate hitting a hard shot to advance Foglesong to 3rd. Bethany Kemp had a hard hit ball to center field scoring Foglesong, followed by a Caitlin Rooney single. In the 2nd inning Annie Dreher singled advancing to 2nd on a wild throw. Tori Balta coming to the plate had a nice single allowing Dreher to advance to 3rd. Shannon Fitzgerald hit a hard grounder that scored Dreher. Foglesong came to the plate hitting a shot to center field for another single and advancing Fitzgerald to 2nd. A wild pitch to Lauren Boser, put both runners in scoring position. Boser than singled to score Fitzgerald. Up to the plate came Madison Shipman, hitting a single to score Foglesong followed by a wild pitch that Boser took advantage of sliding into home. 3rd inning, Rooney had a single to left field and advanced to 2nd on a wild pitch and to 3rd on a throwing error by the catcher. Amy Moore came to the plate to hit a hard shot to right field scoring Rooney. Balta followed up with a single to center. 4th inning, again, Foglesong came to the plate and singled followed by stealing 2nd and 3rd. Shipman again singled scoring Foglesong while Shipman ran to 2nd. Kemp had a hard hit ball to center scoring Shipman from 2nd. Rooney followed up with a single to center while Kemp advanced to 2nd. Moore up to the plate watched a ball go by as Kemp and Rooney both advanced. Moore than hit a nice shot to center field scoring Kemp and advancing Rooney to 3rd. Jessica Smith hit a hard sacrifice fly allowing Rooney to score. Ally Peskay was at the plate with a 2-0 count when our runner was caught stealing.
Ironwood High School 5-0
On Friday March 13, the Lady Vikings played Ironwood High School from Glendale, Arizona and came away with a 5-0 win.
Carly Mortensen took to the mound throwing a perfect game posting 13 strikeouts with the help of her catcher Amy Moore’s pitch selection and her teammates great fielding. In the 2nd inning Bethany Kemp had a nice double to center followed by a double by Moore scoring Kemp. Tori Balta had a single advancing pinch runner Elena Dickson. 3rd inning, Megan Foglesong hit a double and advanced to 3rd with a nice sacrifice bunt by Lauren Boser. Foglesong then scored with an overthrow. 4th inning, Caitlin Rooney led the inning off with a walk and Justine Sibthorp was put in to pinch run followed by singles from Moore and Annie Dreher. With an overthrow, pinch runner Dickson advanced to 3rd. Shannon Fitzgerald had a single to right field scoring Dickson and advancing Dreher to 3rd. 4th inning, Boser led the inning with a hard shot double to left field that hit the fence just missing a homerun. Madison Shipman than hit a bullet over the fence for a 2 run homerun. Caitlin Rooney followed with a double to right field. 6th inning Lindsay Clark hit a hard shot down the 1st base line that looked as if it would go through but the first baseman made a great snag. Jessica Smith came to the plate with a single down the first base side.
Chino Hills High School 5-3
On Friday March 13, the Vikings playing their second game of the day, taking on Chino High School, coming away with a 5-3 win. What a game it was! Sara Enriquez took to the mound in the 1st inning and shut them down. In the bottom of the 1st Megan Foglesong had a hard hit single down the the left side of the field followed by another hard hit single by Lauren Boser advancing Foglesong 3rd and onto home to score. Madison Shipman Singled to right center field then stole 2nd and onto 3rd with a wild pitch. Top of the 2nd inning Chino was only able to muster up one single which produced nothing. Bottom of the 2nd, Amy Moore led off the inning with a double to left field followed by yet another double to left field by Jessica Smith scoring pinch runner Lindsay Clark. Top of 3rd, again Enriquez held Chino to a scoreless inning. Bottom of the 3rd, both Shipman and Caitlin Rooney singled but were unable to capitalize. Top of 4th, Enriquez was able to hold Chino to a scoreless inning with an excellent defense behind her. Top of 5th, Enriquez and her teammates were able to hold the opponents to a scoreless inning. Bottom of the 5th, Shipman hit another rope to left field going on to steal 2nd. Top of 6th, only 1 run was scored by Chino. Top of 7th, Chino was able to score 1 more run tying the game 2-2. Bottom of 7th, Tori Balta hit a single to right field followed by Lauren Boser getting beaned in the head by the pitcher advancing her to 1st. With runners on 1st and 2nd, Chino took no chances and intentionally walked the feared hitting of Shipman, loading the bases. Unfortunately, the Vikings were not able to score sending them into an extra inning, international tie breaker situation. With Enriquez still pitching strong in the top of the 8th inning, 1 run was able to score. Bottom of the 8th, With Bethany Kemp starting out on 2nd base, Caitlin Rooney had a hard hit single down the 3rd base side allowing Kemp to score from 2nd. Amy Moore than laid down a sacrifice bunt. Vikings left the inning with the score tied 3-3. Top of 9th inning, Coach Donna Lee decided to mix it up a little by bringing in Carly Mortensen into pitch. Chino was shut down. In the bottom of the 9th, Balta was placed on 2nd with Annie Dreher laying down a sacrifice bunt advancing Balta to 3rd. Vikings came away empty handed. Onto the top of the 10th inning, Mortensen pitching with the runner starting at 2nd a sacrifice bunt was placed down advancing the runner to 3rd. Next batter came to the plate hitting a ball to Shipman who threw the ball to Boser to get the out as the runner from 3rd was running home, Boser made a hard throw to Moore who made a fantastic play at the plate to tag the runner out. Bottom of the 10th inning, Clark would start off the inning on 2nd base. Bethany Kemp came to the plate with one out and hit a towering shot over the left field fence for a game winning 2 run homerun.
Santa Monica High School 5-3
On Saturday March 14, the Vikings played Santa Monica High School. Carly Mortensen took to the mound for the Vikings. In the top of the 3rd, Annie Dreher had a single to center field followed by a sacrifice bunt by Tori Balta. The first three innings for both teams remained scoreless. In the top of the 4th Bethany Kemp walked and stole 2nd. Bottom of the 4th, with a runner on 1st attempting to steal 2nd, Amy Moore threw a bullet down to 2nd for an out. With a single and a walk, the next batter hit a double which scored 2 runs. In the top of the 5th Dreher singled to center, followed by a double to center by Balta. With Dreher on 3rd, Shannon Fitzgerald came up to bat hitting a single scoring Dreher. Up next Megan Foglesong grounded out to 2nd scoring Balta. Sara Enriquez was brought to the mound. With the score tied at 2-2. The 6th and 7th innings remained scoreless. Once again the Vikings were going into an extra inning game. Top of the 8th inning Balta was the runner on 2nd and advanced to 3rd on a bunt by Shannon Fitzgerald. Foglesong came up to the plate and hit a triple scoring 2 runs. Lauren Boser followed up with a sacrifice fly to right field scoring Foglesong. Bottom of the 8th inning, with a single to center by Santa Monica, runners were now at 1st and 3rd. Enriquez followed that with a strike out. There was another single to center which scored 1 run. With the score now 5-3, Enriquez threw a great pitch forcing the batter to fly out to Foglesong ending the game with a win for the Vikings and advancing them to the championship game.
Norco High School 2-4
On Saturday March 14, Championship game Lady Vikings take on Norco High School. Sara Enriquez starting on the mound for the Vikings started the game with 2 strikeouts followed by a walk that did not amount to anything thanks to Amy Moore’s put out at 2nd base. In the bottom of the 3rd inning Norco was able to get a hold of one for a homerun followed by a put out by Madison Shipman and a bunt out. After a single to left field Carly Mortensen took to the mound with a strikeout. In the top of the 4th inning Shipman singled to right field followed by a stolen base. In the bottom of the 4th, Vikings were able to hold them with three straight outs. Top of the 5th, Moore hit a single to deep right center after battling off many pitches. Tori Balta singled to right center field advancing pinch runner Lindsay Clark to 3rd. Shannon Fitzgerald walked loading the bases. Megan Foglesong hit a shot into center field scoring Clark and with Balta running home, slid into home plate and seemed to be under the tag, but was called out. Bottom of the 5th, with a walk, Caitlin Rooney made a difficult throw to 1st to get the runner out. With a little mishap in the field the runner scored. Top of 6th, Bethany Kemp led off the inning with a 200 ft. shot over the left field fence, tying the game at 2-2. Bottom of the 6th, the inning started with a walk, followed by a bunt to Mortensen who threw the runner out at 1st and advancing the lead runner to 2nd. With the next batter walked Sara Enriquez was brought in. Enriquez struck out the first batter. A hit to left field scored two runs, followed by a fly out for the third out. Top of 7th, Moore started off the inning with a single to the right side. Pinch runner Clark stole 2nd. Balta hit a fielder’s choice to right field advancing Clark to 3rd. Unfortunately, the Vikings were not able to come up with a run and came up short. The score was 2-4 Norco. Lady Vikings played a fantastic tournament and came away with the runners up trophy.
After a hard fought battle over three extremely competitive days in Bullhead City trying to defend our two time title, the Lady Vikings came up short in the Championship game losing 4-2 to Norco. Regardless of the final result, we still feel very proud of the way we played and will be back next year to make a run at regaining our title.
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