Bandits U14 Gold Win Midwest Firecracker Showcase In Walk-Off Fashion!

The Wisconsin Bandits U14 Gold travel fastpitch softball team based out of Horicon went 9-0 and won the 55 team Midwest Firecracker Softball Showcase in Westfield, Indiana over the 4^th of July weekend.  After going 5-0 in pool play, the Bandits swept four games on Sunday to win the championship.  In the title game on Sunday night, the Bandits’ Gabby Fakes hit a two-run walk-off homer in the bottom of the 6^th to defeat the Michiana (MI) Lady Scrappers 6-5.  The walk-off dinger was Fakes’ second of the game.

The Bandits are now 45-8-3 on the season and are next in action July 13^th to the 18^th when they head to Kansas City, Missouri for the World Fastpitch Championship USA Elite Select Tournament.

 

Members of the Bandits include

#2  Quinn Marnocha

#3 Addie Blomberg

#11  Riley Grudzielanek

#12  Gabrielle Fakes

#15  Olivia DiStefano

#19  Karly Meredith

#22  Hillary Blomberg

#23  Saveea Freeland

#25  Mara Babak

#27  Sierra Thomas

#32  Danielle Lucey

#33  Maddie Zaves

#00  Taryn Christopher

 

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Photo Credit: Deb Meredith

 

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