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The team wins the Territory Tournament in Salem to earn a berth in the upcoming ASA 18 Gold National Tournament in Oklahoma City
The Beaverton Valley Times, Jul 25, 2008, Updated Jul 25, 2008 (1 Reader comment)
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THE BULLETS � The Oregon Silver Bullets Gold team includes (front row, left to right) Bailey Rueck, Taylor Marchione, sevierville tn vacation rental Dylan Mizer, luxury vacation home Amanda McCoy, Megan Wallo and Jessy Downey, and (back row) Amanda Miller, Ashley Suter, Laynee Bevans, Emily Kirk, Nikki Bassett and Ashley Garcia. (not pictured, Jade Marie Kealiinohomoku).
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This past weekend, the Oregon Silver Bullets Gold fastpitch softball team qualified for the bora bora vacation ASA 18 Gold National Tournament. Next government employees vacation club up for the Bullets is their trip to Oklahoma City, home of the ASA Hall of Fame Complex and site of the NCAA Division I championships, where they will compete with 63 other teams from around the nation.
The Bullets are coached by Mic Bowman, disney vacation homes who led several of these same players to a runner-up finish in the 2002 Little League World Series at Alpenrose Dairy. Their ASA team was also very successful that year, establishing itself as a top 12A team.
As many players on the ASA team moved on to vacation rental mesquite nv older teams the next year, seven new players joined the roster. Five of those who were on family vacation st maarten the 2003 team – Taylor Marchione, carribean vacation specials Bailey Rueck, Dylan Mizer, Amanda McCoy, Jessy Downey and Megan Wallo – have competed together every year since that time.
The rest of the current roster includes cheap hawaii vacation packages Nikki Bassett, Laynee Bevans, Ashley Garcia, Jade Marie Kealiinohomoku, Emily Kirk, Amanda Miller and Ashley Suter.
In 2003, they competed at the 12A level and in 2004 at the 14A level under Bowman in hilton head vacation rentals the Beaverton Blaze organization. They found success early on, winning several tournaments and competing well at the packing for a vacation state and regional levels.
In 2005, Bowman went back vacation rental near west yellowstone montana to coaching younger players, indian rocks beach vacation rental while his assistants, Steve Wallo huatulco mexico vacation housing and Dale Mizer, took over the reins of the developing softball program. While the roster has undergone changes, each year, the six core players remained.
But what this group popular vacation destinations has done over and over has been win. In 2005, their second year at the atlantis bahamas vacation packages 14A level they mowed though the Regional cheap mexican vacation Tournament in Vancouver and qualified for Nationals. The next year, in their first year at 16A, they again qualified for Nationals and traveled to Seattle for the 2006 ASA 16A National Tournament.
With their goal to become nationally competitive, the team played in mostly 18U invitationals last year, with the exception of ASA championship-level tournaments. The Bullets qualified for Nationals in Boise, Idaho, then swept through the winners bracket to capture the Oregon dvd disneyworld vacation children State Championship. At the ASA Nationals in Sioux Falls, SD, the Silver Bullets continued their mission, and ended up nahalem vacation rentals 13th out of 138 teams.
For 2008, the team took the leap to 18 Gold where the competition gets even more serious. The national tournament only grants 64 berths from across the country and the Bullets, after strong efforts in their first two Territory Tournaments, finally got it done in a Salem-hosted Territory Tournament.
Over two days, the great white vacation Silver Bullets bettered the Washington Acers, the NW Outlaws, the Washington Lake Breeze, and finally, in an international tie-breaker, the Washington Bulldogs. The championship earned the Bullets one of the two berths to nationals, not to mention status as one of the best vacation homes rent in miami 18 Gold fastpitch softball teams in the country.
“We vacation rental zoning laws are really proud of the way we have progressed over a relatively short competitive season,” Steve Wallo said. “Our individual players and our play as a team have improved with each week, and that’s all a coach can ask for.”
Off the field, the Silver Bullets have a 3.4 GPA, feature two valedictorians, ski vacation packages a west tennessee luxury vacation rentals singer who has performed at Carnegie hall, a Young Life leader, a children’s hospital volunteer, multi-sport athletes (including a vacation rentals lincoln city oregon competitive ice california vacation skater), soup kitchen volunteers, peer mediators, a class president, honor roll vacation rentals southwest ohio cincinnati members, National Honors Society Members including a chapter krystal vacation club president, a 12-year member of a Japanese Magnet/Immersion Program, and Special Olympics volunteers.
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