DD picked up with the 12U 01 team in her sister's org for a friendly. We are at the point of going through winter tryouts and deciding if she is ready to go from REC to an 02 TB team. We were really there to check out the team our org was playing against because DD has a tryout with them coming up, but the coach said to bring her uniform and he would pop her in. He is super cool and even though he doesn't think she is ready to join up with his 01 squad, is helping us find the best fit for her.
Anyway-she goes 3 for 5, gets to play 1st base for an entire game, no errors, saves a ball that was almost in the dirt from SS for the out. Catches a tough popup and turns the double play to second when the runner is caught off guard by her making the catch. Fields a hard grounder for the out. Then she gets the surprise that she is pitching an inning. Her first inning of 12U pitching ever.
Strikes out the first two and gets the third out on a popup to SS.
We crushed both teams in the games she played and they were both 02s. So I think she is ready.
P.S.- She did go down looking in one AB and decided that running on anything with 2 outs is somehow not the best base running strategy so it wasn't perfect but it was pretty darn good.
