Bellevue Blast 2000

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Blast wins Pumpkin Classic

10/11/2015 Selah, WA — Bellevue Blast 2000 beat the Clark County Breeze 18U by a score of 12-1 to take the 2015 Pumpkin Classic Silver bracket.  Blast started the day at 8 am by blanking the NW Spark 10-0, then beat Venom in the semi-final 12-5 using a 6 run last inning to put them away.

Here is the recap story from GameChanger of the championship game:

Bellevue Blast 2000 16U jumps on Clark Co Breeze early and coasts to 12-1 win

Bellevue Blast 2000 16U jumped out to an early lead on Clark Co Breeze and captured a 12-1 victory on Sunday.

With 12 runs in the first three innings, Bellevue Blast 2000 16U left no doubt about the eventual outcome.

An RBI single by Ren Watanabe, a two-run double by Elliet Bradshaw, an error, an RBI single by Holly Darrow, and an error during the first inning and an error and a two-run single by Meara Gants in the second inning supplied the early offense for Bellevue Blast 2000 16U.Bradshaw racked up four RBIs on two hits for Bellevue Blast 2000 16U.

Watanabe got it done on the rubber on the way to a win. She allowed one run over four innings. She struck out none, walked one and surrendered three hits.

S Grover ended up on the wrong side of the pitching decision, charged with the loss. She allowed nine runs in two innings, walked none and struck out none.

Bellevue Blast 2000 16U survived Clark Co Breeze’s surge and put up three runs of its own in the second.

Bellevue Blast 2000 16U increased its lead with three runs in the third. A ground out scored Maddy Rowe to start the scoring in the inning. That was followed up by Bradshaw’s triple, scoring Kendall Gentzen and Lexie Rose.

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Opening Ceremonies at Western Nationals

Monday, July 27th:  Opening ceremonies featuring 34 teams in Boise.  Bat testing, check-in, and team introductions including a team skit.  The coaches attended their initial meeting in the morning to hear about rules and had the draw for the initial pools.  Teams are from Washington, Oregon, Northern California, Utah, and Idaho.

Here is their “skit.”

 


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ASA State

Blast 2000 finishes fifth out of the 22 teams at ASA State.   Take a look at the bracket here.  Blast lost their first game to the eventual fourth place finisher but fought their way back winning the next 5 games before falling to the third place finisher, Vancouver Patriots 00, on Sunday morning.