The 2015 Kissimmee Klassic, annually one of the top high school tournaments, wrapped up last weekend in Kissimmee, Fla. and despite battling Mother Nature there were some outstanding team and individual performances.

“The weather batted two-for-three,” laughed Roger Jones, the Director of the Klassic, “but fortunately we had a great ground crew. The 220 foot fences were a challenge with all of that wind and some sweet pitching and during the Friday afternoon wind and rain storm several teams were under one tent and all had to scatter when it came full force, but we got ready to play again and the top dog was a team effort by Blue Bracket winner Hagerty.”

Hagerty from Oviedo, Fla. was ranked No. 3 in the nation in the latest Full Count Softball FAB 50 National Rankings and showed why the team is so highly touted.

The Huskies defeated Cantonment Tate (ranked No. 30 in the FAB 50) 5-2 in the Blue Bracket championship game as Sarah Harrison hit a fourth inning triple to score Kori Brooke to break a 2-2 tie.

Senior pitcher Samantha Worrell, who has signed with South Florida, scattered seven hits and struck out eight while allowing only one earned run.

In the Gold Bracket, Tampa Plant blanked Doral Academy 12-0 behind pitcher Dana Rowley’s one-hitter.

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Here are the individual awards and top performers from the tournament:

BLUE BRACKET HONORS:

MVP: jr Sarah Harrison (Hagerty)
Accomplishments: hit .462 with 6 runs scored and triple; Sarah bats leadoff for the Huskies and led her team in hits and runs scored. She hit a triple and single in Finals driving in the winning run.

Hitting Award: jr Jessica Rivera (Gulliver Prep)
Accomplishments: hit.588 with 10 hits, two home runs and seven runs scored; Jessica bats leadoff for the Raiders and led the tournament in hits [10], home runs [2], runs scored [7] and batting average and in the tourney was second in RBIs [6] and slugging percentage [1.176]

Defense Award: sr Tori Perkins (Tate Cantonment)
Accomplishments 2-0 pitching record with 0.50 ERA; Tori went 2-0 on the mound giving up just one earned run and also led Tate in hits and RBIs batting out of the 3 hole.

Special Mention:

• sr SS Allison Walters [University] led tourney with 7 RBI’s
• sr 2B Jenna Zavetz [Cocoa Beach] led tourney with 7 RBI’s
• fr P Francis Lopez [East River] was the only Blue Division pitchers that won 3 tournament games
• jr p Morgan White [Forest] led the Blue Bracket with 38 K’s
• sr P Samantha Worrell [Hagerty] was 2-0 – 0.50 ERA – was walked tourney high of 5 times.
• Forest Wildcats jr Kaitlyn Peters & sr Rachel Mazzurco were joined by sr Taylor Cruce [Bradford] as only ones to hit home runs [1 each] in addition to Rivera’s 2 over the 220′ fences.

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GOLD BRACKET HONORS:

MVP: jr Rachel Heuker (Plant Tampa)
Accomplishments: hit .692 with five RBI and six runs scored; Rachel bats secnd in the lineup and led her team to the championship. She also led the tournament in batting average and hits and was second in runs scored, third in RBIs and led the tournament in on-base percentage.

Hitting Award: 8^th Megan Rodriguez (Florida Christian)
Accomplishments: hit .667 with five RBI and six runs scored; Megan went 4-for-4 with 4 RBI in the Consolation Championship game to get her to the .667 tournament leading average.

Defense Award: jr Dana Rowley (Plant Tampa)
Accomplishments 2-0 pitching record with 1.17 era; Dana pitched a one-hitter in the Championship Finals win and was 2-0 for the tournament.

Special Mention:

• sr 1B Karli Smith [Florida Christian] led the tournament with 11 RBI’s and had a 1.000 slugging number.
• jr C Caroline Grieves [Plant] had 10 RBI’s
• soph 3B Mayte Lezcano [Florida Christian] led the tourney with 9 runs scored
• fr P Haley Murphy [Riverview] the only Pitcher to win 3 games in the Gold Bracket – 0.75 era – only gave up 3 earned runs – led both brackets this year with 51 K’s
• jr P Danielle Tringali [Plant] was 2-0, only gave up 4 runs & had a 2.55 ERA
• jr P Giovanna Watts [Lake Howell] one of only a few P that threw 4 games – only gave up 7 runs – 1.75 era – tacked on a HR batting.
• sr 2B Kali Jones [Osceola] bats lead off, tied for 2nd in tournament hits [8] & tied for 2nd in runs scored [5]while hitting .571
• sr CF Danielle Scott [Plant] bats cleanup & tied for most hits [9] while hitting .643