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In 2008, the WWBA will begin recruiting for its first all girls youth team. We will also continue recruiting for the Washington Stars.
We don't plan to host our own Women’s Baseball League this year. We intend to have league play again once there is greater awareness about this opportunity and more girls/women who want to participate consistently.
Our goal is to host both a youth and an adult league, with travelling tournament teams at both levels. The WWBA is committed to providing an opportunity for women to play baseball.
If you want to play on a team, or just try it out, please complete this registration form to express your interest and get added to our lists.
During the 2008 summer, we will be holding regular
practices/clinics and scrimmage games for current
WWBA players and all other players interested in
participating in women's baseball. New players
who want to try it, or fastpitch players thinking
they'd like to give pitching overhand a shot, are all
welcome. Dates and locations will be announced in
late Spring.
Find out more about Women's Baseball and the WWBA
by listening to our radio show taped last April. Tony B brings
you women's baseball in that week's edition of "Street Beat".
To listen, click here and scroll down to the April 29th show.
WWBA PRESS RELEASE: Sunday, August 27, 2006
Author: Bruce Baskin, PR Director & Board Member
DEROUIN PITCHES, BATS RAPTORS TO WIN
IN FINAL GAME
Tacoman tosses complete game six-hitter, goes 4-for-5 at plate
BURIEN - The Tacoma Southend Raptors put an exclamation point on their pennant-winning season this afternoon by dominating the Seattle Westside Falcons 21-4 in the final game of the Washington Women’s Baseball Association season series between the two teams at Moshier Park. The Raptors won five of six contests to take away the 2006 WWBA championship.
Raptors pitcher Stephanie Derouin, a graduate of Tacoma’s Bellarmine Prep, had her best outing of the season on the mound by scattering six hits and three earned runs over seven innings while striking out nine Falcon batters en route to her third win of the series and second complete game performance. Derouin was her own best friend at the plate for the Southenders, batting 4-for-5 with four runs and five RBIs to lead the Raptors’ 19-hit attack.
Tacoma third baseman Dolly West went 3-for-5 at bat with four runs and two ribbies while rookie catcher Lena Park (who plays fastpitch for Bellarmine Prep in the spring) reached base and subsequently scored all five times she came to the plate, finishing with three hits. Another rookie, Sam Peterson, looked good in her first game by stroking a double and two singles in five plate appearances, knocking in four runs; while yet another first-gamer, Jessie Bell, went 2-for-5 with four more runs driven in as eight of Tacoma’s nine batters had at least one hit.
For the Falcons, who fell behind 4-0 in the top of the first and never recovered, both Stacey Halls and Stephanie Miller went 2-for-3 as Miller scored Seattle’s first run of the game on a bases-loaded walk to Halls in the bottom of the second. Tacoma’s Derouin ran into some more trouble in the bottom of the fifth by allowing four hits and two runs, including RBI singles by Melissa Thompson and Megan Winters before inducing Cindy Niessen to hit into an inning-ending fielder’s choice.
Seattle starter Janice Halls, Stacey’s sister and a former spring training invitee of the Colorado Silver Bullets, had a rocky outing on the mound over five innings to take the loss for the Falcons. The Halls sisters made the trip to Burien with their parents from British Columbia. Staci lives on Vancouver Island north of Victoria, while Janice resides in the lower mainland city of Surrey, south of Vancouver.
While the WWBA regular season has closed, their elite team has more action on the docket. The Washington Stars, who played well in a tournament earlier this year in Santa Clara, California, are planning to make a return trip to Fort Myers, Florida in October for the AAU Women’s Baseball National Championships. The Stars consist of a select roster from the Raptors and Falcons, and finished fifth last year in their initial run for the AAU crown.
TACOMA SOUTHEND RAPTORS 21, SEATTLE WESTSIDE FALCONS 4
Seattle ……………………………………………. ………… 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 - 4 6 8
Tacoma ……………………………………………………... 4 1 1 6 7 2 X - 21 19 1
WP-Stephanie Derouin. LP-Janice Halls. 2B-Sam Peterson (T). T-2:33.
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