Overall Record for 2012 12U Season:  36-17-1

Outscored opposition: 372 - 202

Coaching Staff:

• Kevin LaPoint - Head Coach/Manager
• Assistant Coaches - Pete Weber & Todd VandenLangenberg

Players:

• Sydney LaPoint #21 (Suamico, WI) *Age 11
• Emily Higgins #24 (Pulaski, WI) *Age 11
• Bethany Weber #3 (Green Bay, WI) *Age 12
• Jacie Legois #14 (Luxemburg/Casco, WI) *Age 12
• Natalia Draghicchio #10 (Suamico, WI) *Age 12
• Alexis Tingley #16 (Howard, WI) *Age 12
• Sydney Johnson #7 (Suamico, WI) *Age 12
• Katie Conard #4 (Suamico, WI) *Age 12
• Gabrielle Every #8 (Suamico, WI) *Age 12
• Mikayla Haack #1 (Algoma, WI) *Age 12

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Our team earned the #1 seed through pool play to earn the opportunity at another tournament championship this season.  In a low-scoring, exciting championship game a very good Minnesota Gators team outlasted our girls in 7 innings by 1 run with a 3-2 score.

 

 

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Our girls earned the right to play in the Midwest All-Sanctioned World Series in Columbus, Ohio for the second year in a row.  The first year down in 2011 was for the experience, but this season we made the trip with purpose to make some noise and challenge the best in the Midwest.  The team played at it's highest level throughout the entire tournament, posting a 4-2 overall record.  Pool play games on Friday resulted in us beating the Indiana Irish (15-3) in the first game, then coming up short against a very experienced Ohio Power (2-6) in the second game.  Saturday's pool games resulted in us beating the Michigan Devils (10-4), then defeating the Great Lakes Sharks from Toledo, OH (6-3).  Earned our right to play Sunday entering the day with a 3-1 record.  Sunday morning started out with us outlasting the Chicago Outburst (8-6), and then finishing Sunday afternoon by coming up short to one of the biggest, most talented teams in the tourney, the Lady Tigers from the Detroit, MI area. 

We accomplished our goal and promise to eachother that we made last season on these very same grounds in 2011 - that we would come back here in 2012 after an off-season of hard training and get to Sunday afternoon.  Going 4-2 in this tough tournament is testament to our belief that it takes year-round, hard training to accomplish success in this game.  We made the journey back home to Wisconsin with pride in what we accomplished here.  We will be back again...

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Congratulations goes out to our 2012 Powerhouse 12u team for winning the championship in the 16-team field at the Winneconne Softball Tournament June 22nd-24th!! The girls played their hearts out to add to the winning tradition of Powerhouse Fastpitch softball.

And a special congrats to our Sydney LaPoint for being voted the Tournament Most Valuable Player!!

Way to go girls!!!

Results - The team lost the opening pool game to Hortonville 2-4, then collected themselves and never looked back all weekend by outscoring our opponents 47-14 for the tourney. Started the roll by beating Bay de Noc 15-3, then shutout a very good Germantown club 4-0 with shutout pitching by Sydney LaPoint & Alexis Tingley. Earned a #2 seed for Sunday and defeated Winneconne 8-1 in the quarterfinals with great defense and breakout hitting, including a 210' homerun blast over the fence by Emily Higgins. Semifinal game pitted Powerhouse against Hortonville again, but this time our girls didn't forget what happened earlier and opened-up the offense and issued shutdown pitching to win by 10-run rule in the 5th, 10-0. The Championship game was a great one matching our girls up against a very good Beaver Dam club. Our girls jumped out to an early lead, then gave up some runs and battled back to generate a 4-run rally to come from behind in the final inning and prevailed 8-6 for the Championship!

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Congrats to our 12u team for another great round-robin tournament early in the 2012 season! Our team won 2 of 3 games throughout the day. The opening game was decided by an International Tie-Breaker, falling short on a well-played game to the Wisconsin Bandits Black team by a score of 2-4. Next, our girls defeated the Wisconsin Bandits Red team 4-1. Then finished out the day by shutting out the Fox River Rush 7-0. Looking forward to a great 2012 season!!

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Congrats to our 12u team for a great day and start of the 2012 season! The team went undefeated throughout the day by shutting out the Jr. Phoenix 8-0 and the Lakeshore Rise 5-0, and then finishing the night against Lakeland-Kenosha 9-2.

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