Our Magical Journey Comes to an End

The North Shore 12 Gold season came to an end today in Portland with an exciting and heartbreaking loss to Los Alamitos 8-7 in 9 innings. Battling the 95 degree heat and high humidity our girls came back to take a 4-3 lead into the bottom of the 7th inning. One out away from advancing to the final eight Los Al tied the score 4-4 and forced extra innings in the International Tiebreaker. Los Al scored one in the top of the 8th, but our girls fought back to tie the score at 5-5 after 8. In the 9th Los Al pushed across three and our girls hit the wall. We came back with a couple in the bottom of the 9th but ran out of gas in the elimination loss. Lots of tears followed as everyone was sad the journey was over. But in the process we put the North Shore name on the national map by finishing with a 45-14 record, winning the North San Diego District; finishing 3rd at States and 9th place at Nationals. It weas a heck of a ride, one these girls and all of us will never forget. The Oregonians were the nicest people and we all enjoyed the friendships we made with other teams and their parents during the week. One of the coolest things was having the entire Bonita Valley team cheering us on as we beat Belmont earlier in the day. It has been a great joy being around these girls and families...a summer I will never forget!!