Phantom Fastpitch

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Happy Thanksgiving family and friends!

Always strive for greatness!! This team is very talented and has proven they want to be recognized on a higher level. We have told them that we are going with a very heavy schedule in the spring playing mostly all sanctioned tournaments and they are up to the challenge!! There isn’t a group of 9/10u girls that will out work these ladies and it shows on the field.

“Hard work beats talent when talent refuses to work hard” question is what happens when talent works hard it becomes ELITE!!

Phantom 10U wrapped up our fall season last week. We appreciate everyone’s love and support throughout this season. Now to brag one last time on these girls for our fall season. Our team finished with an overall 27-6 record.

This fall season we hit .450 as a team with 232 hits and 98 strikeouts and 106 walks.

In 118 innings- our pitchers faced 480 batters only giving up 50 hits, 56 runs and 60 walks. Here’s the most impressive part: our pitchers worked together to get 275 strikeouts. Our pitchers combine ERA was 2.3.

Our overall fielding percentage was .950.

We have some loose ends to tie up and look forward to improving throughout winter workouts, and rolling out better than ever in the spring.

Phantom Elite 12U- Bland came home with some hardware this weekend! These girls played hard on Saturday and posted a 2-1 record earning Runner Up at the Halloween Havoc at the Doc tournament due to rain out. (Missing a few girls in the pic)

These girls worked hard yesterday going 3-0 on the day, clenching the #1 seed. We were ready to play ball today when they made the call to cancel due to rain. We would much rather play ball, but we are coming home with championship rings.

Go like the phantom dynasty girls, voting closes tomorrow at 9!!

Ok so I’m gonna brag on our 10u!!! These girls are never satisfied and push to be great!!! With that I’m gonna throw some numbers around.
Through 4 games we scored 45 runs and gave up 1 yes you read that right 45-1.
We hit for a team average of .597 and an on base percentage of .670, anyone that knows softball knows that’s huge. Let me add only 5 strikeouts at the plate as a team this weekend!!
To top it all off we had 4 different pitchers pitch and didn’t give up a hit in 4 games!! 37 strikeouts and 6 walks. I’m super proud of them and I’m excited to see where the future takes this team.
Great job ladies!!

We would like to welcome the girls for Phantom 12u: branim fastpitch team.

Allie Slone

🥎 #3

🥎 positions: 2nd base and of

🥎teams played for: JC Fury and Phantom

🥎 favorite softball memory: her all star team winning the regional tournament

Welcome to the family Allie

We would like to welcome the girls for Phantom 12u: branim fastpitch team.

Kambria Lawrence

🥎Nickname: Kami sue

🥎 #27

🥎 positions: utility player

🥎teams played for: phantom elite

🥎 favorite softball memory: getting her first hit, a double, and team bonding

“This is my first yr of travel softball. I was inspired by my 2 older sisters kaylie and skyler and I want to thank my dad John for always believing in me.” -kami

Welcome to the family Kami sue

We would like to welcome the girls for Phantom 12u: branim fastpitch team.

Jenna Goble

🥎Nickname: blues clues, mouth of the south, and dora

🥎 #4

🥎 positions: 2nd base and of

🥎teams played for: east carter middle school, blaze, and renegades

🥎 favorite softball memory: when her school team was losing by a bunch and ended up coming back to win.

Welcome to the family Jenna

We would like to welcome the girls for Phantom 12u: branim fastpitch team.

Jaycee Couch

🥎Nickname: Lynney

🥎 #11

🥎 positions: pitcher and ss

🥎teams played for: greenup county middle school, pride athletics, south shore storm, and buckeye elite

🥎 favorite softball memory: beating raceland to advance to the middle school ovc semifinals

Welcome to the family Jaycee

We would like to welcome the girls for Phantom 12u: branim fastpitch team.

Morgan Collier

🥎nickname: pickle

🥎 #21

🥎 positions: pitcher, ss, outfield

🥎teams played for: pride athletics, greenup county middle school, bluegrass bellas, and the renegades

🥎 favorite softball memory: playing a softbal game in the snow

We would like to welcome the girls for Phantom 12u: branim fastpitch

Makenna Vaught

🥎Makenna has played softball for 1 year

🥎 nickname: kenna

🥎 #22

🥎 positions: catcher and utility player

🥎teams played for: Minford falcons and Symmes Valley all stars

🥎 favorite softball memory: being the little league district runner ups

We would like to welcome the girls for Phantom 12u: branim fastpitch team.

Ella Wilson

🥎Ella has played softball for 6 years.

🥎 #17

🥎 positions: catcher and utility

🥎 nicknames: brittney, smella, and eller

🥎teams played for: fury, renegades, nightmares, russell middle school, and phantom

🥎 favorite softball memory: making the middle school team and ticking off coach Matt. Also winning mvp of the Queen City showdown.

Welcome to the family Ella Wilson

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Averie Helton

🥎 #33

🥎 positions: pitcher, 1st base, and of

🥎teams played for: Paintsville middle school, renegades, east Ky crush

🥎 favorite softball memory: playing in the World Series with her travel team and going to watch the Louisville bats play baseball.

Maddyson (maddy) Flannery

🥎 #2

🥎 positions: 1st base and left field

🥎 nickname: wheels

🥎teams played for: blaze and renegades and east carter middle school

🥎 favorite softball memory: her diving catch in the outfield last season.

Welcome to the family Maddy

We would like to welcome the girls for Phantom 12u: branim fastpitch team.

First off is Addison Branim

🥎Addison has played softball since she was 6 years old.

🥎 #9

🥎nicknames: sunshine, tangled, and daddy long legs

🥎 positions: utility player

🥎teams played for: fury, renegades, nightmares, Greenup County Middle School, and phantom

🥎 favorite softball memory: her multiple inside park home runs.

First off, we are grateful to be able to participate in the Crushin Cancer tournament. Our continued thoughts and prayers are with miss Oaklynn Keller, and everyone else battling cancer. This, and tournaments like these are way more important than any Showcase or Classified tournaments to us. Fellowship, support, and just love takes precedence over the rivalries and competition. This was a humble reminder for me.

Thank you Kane for a wonderful tournament for a great cause that let us play the game for the right reason. We were glad to be apart if it and will see you next year.

Phantom and our Firecracker teams were all in attendance for this one. We couldn't have wrote a better ending.

This one was a little more special for us. Our 10U, Coached by JC Murnahan went and won this event.
If your not aware, JC is the father of Onan Murnahan whom passed with pediatric cancer. , and everything He inspired our girls to be, will always be a part of our Phantom family. Softball is just one avenue of bringing more and more awareness to issues like funding, research, development, and mich more that goes into ending battles with cancer. Every girl on our 16U and 15U ages still has on their Onan bracelets on. He continues to inspire. We are gracious to be such a small part of this.

I could go on and on about JC and his team, how good they are, how much discipline they have, and the level of team they are...going undefeated and winning the whole thing!

But what is most noteworthy, they are family. To see the culture, the atmosphere, the bond... that is how you know great people and great leaders.

Softball is always a support system and many peoples happy place. It's an avenue of extended family. To the many hashtags, to the many families out there battling, for each and every kid, family, human knowing the all to familiar pain of this thing...we love and pray for each of you. Stay and never give up! Inspire! Fight! Battle! ....and love one another.

Congrats to our 10U on their Championship run!

Also pictured was our blended squad of 23/24/25's playing up in the 18U battling with the WV Dusters. We came up short in the ship, but no shame losing to those talented ladies over there with such a bright future.

Shout out to our 8U, 11U, 12U as well for showing up for this.

Our Phantom/Firecrackers partnership on full display this weekend.

Both these team made the semi finals of the KGF Fall Showcase and both teams were 1 out away from playing the championship. Firecrackers WV lost 2 - 1 to the Stingrays and Phantom 4 - 3 to Fury Fastpitch.

Thanks to everyone for their support.

Especially thanks to Coach Hendrickson for a wonderful opportunity to showcase our ladies.

Dinger Club this weekend. These girls went back to back home runs in bracket play securing a win.

This was at The KGF Lexington Fall Showcase.

Karalyne Wade and Laela Mathew's(12U playing up in 16U) both with shots.

Video is in the comments.

These ladies went 4-1 on their first weekend together at 12U, unfortunately got put out in the semifinals by a really good Indiana Fusion team. Keep an eye on these girls this Fall, they are gonna be tough💪👀

How about the Phantom Elite - 10U ladies debut! These girls had a phenomenonal start to the season bringing home the hardware! They played 8 games this weekend going 6 - 2 and wearing home the bling!

This was the first tournament together against some great teams like Ky Freedom, Bluegrass Force, Ky Rockers, Capital City Crush, and Flash Fastpitch to name a few.

Look for big things to come out of these young ladies led by great coaches and supported by even better families. Great start girls!