The South Surrey-White Rock Thunder ’99 returned home from Washington earlier this month with a first-place trophy in their back pocket, having won the Seattle Acers Fastpitch tournament.
The Thunder rolled through the tournament – which featured teams from throughout the Puget Sound area – undefeated, beating the Snoco Express 5-4 in extra innings in the championship game.
In the final, South Surrey-White Rock led 2-1 until the seventh inning, when the Express plated three runs to go up 4-2. In the bottom half of the inning, however, the Thunder scored twice to tie, sending the game to extra innings.
In the bottom of the eighth, White Rock scored the winning run on a single to capture the championship.
In semifinals, the Thunder defeated the Seattle Spice 13-0 and in quarter-finals, edged the Bellevue Blast, 6-4. In the round-robin portion of the tourney, they defeated Snoco 8-1, then followed up two two shutouts, 17-0 over the Spice, and 10-0 over the Sullivan Reign.
