The Palmerston Marlins Squirt Select team’s season has started with great success.
The team has been in the gym since late January developing the fundamentals of softball skills and it shows on the diamond. In early May they played a four-team exhibition series with Kitchener, Ancaster and Cambridge and returned undefeated.
In their first tournament in Waterloo the team finished with three wins and two losses. Both losses were to the teams then seeded first and second in Ontario.
Recently the young Marlins entered the John Cross Memorial Tournament in Cambridge and were awarded the gold medal. Every player on the team, contributed to the 69 runs-for count, through either batting in runs or crossing the plate. The members of the rock-solid pitching squad – Leah Herrfort, Paige Coffey, McKenna McGovern and Daphne Culp – were key components in allowing just six runs against the “Baby Fish.”
The Niagara Falls Teddy Bear Tournament and the Mount Forest Fireworks tournament will round out this team’s tournament play, as they prepare for the Provincial Grand Championships in Byron at the end of August.
