Team Nitro Long Island Fastpitch

Congrats to TNLI 01 for taking 1st Place in the Queen of the Hill 14U tourney this past weekend. In a field of 14 teams, TNLI 02 went 3 and 0 on Saturday scoring 35 runs giving up only 7 runs to a first place seeding going into championship bracket play on Sunday.

After a bye in the first round on Sunday, Nitro 02 played the Junction Girls in their first game and crusing to a win that setup a match against the LI Express in the semi-finals. A game which saw TNLI 02 leading 5 to 2 most of the game before LI Express tied it late in the game setting up a walk off win for Nitro in the home half of their inning and propelling them into the final against the Chief 01 team.

The championship game saw a Nitro take an early 2 - 0 lead before the Chief went ahead 3 - 2 in the third inning. After some stellar outfield play by their right fielder who made several lead saving catches on well hit ball, the Chief add to the lead in the 5th and Nitro was in a 7 to 2 deficit.

In the bottom of the 5th and two outs Nitro was able to scratch across 2 runs to cut the lead to 7 to 4. Again in the bottom of the 6th, a game saving catch by the right fielder with 2 on was the defensive highlight of the game, taking just about all the wind out of Nitro's sails.

But with a never say die attitude, Nitro entered the bottom of the seventh with what appeared to be an insurmountable 4 run deficit. But with a never say die attitude, each player stepped up to the plate and executed their job. hard hit after hard hit lead to 3 runs and a tie score. Then with the bases loaded and 2 outs another hard hit ball found the outfield grass, leading to a walk off Championship win for a team then never quit! Congrats TNLI 02 on a hard fought 1st Place win!