Legacy Softball Club team places 13th at nationals

The Legacy Softball Club out of Huntington Beach won five games and

laid claim to 13th place at the 18-and-Under National Championships

held in Garland, Texas.

More than 140 teams from around the country competed in the

national tournament, played in 100-plus degree heat.

Legacy went 5-3 overall in tournament play, which included a

three-game win streak.

Pool play included an 8-0 blanking of the Maine Silver Sluggers

and a tough, 1-0 loss to the Nebraska Echoes Gold team.

Legacy then began double-elimination bracket play with a midnight

clash against the Indiana Earthquakes and rode a balanced attack in

its next game, an 8-0 whipping of the Tennessee Firebirds.

In its showdown with the Houston Cy-Fair Bats, Legacy jumped out

to a 5-0 lead and hung on for a 5-3 victory.

That win propelled the locals into the round of 16, where they

fell to the Kentucky Lady Sluggers, 1-0, in an extra-inning affair.

Legacy then got past the Ohio Illusion, 3-1, but was eliminated

from title consideration by the East Cobb Bullets, 5-3.

The Legacy Softball Club is made up of Cassi Bailey, Cynthia

Bailey, Ramona Garcia, Brittany Heinle, Christine Hickey, Holly

Jackson, Nicole LaPier, Jessica Lupton, Amanda Marchegiano, Anne

Mureau, Iris Murray, Kathryn Richards, Ashlee Tupper, Brooke Viola,

Christina Wakeman, Laura Wakeman and coaches Bill Jackson, Dennis

Lupton and Brad Wakeman.