Santa Cruz Crushers

🥎Crushers 14U end their fall season with a championship!🥎

The Crusher 14’s were in Modesto for the NSA Winter Blast this past weekend. With just 9 players all weekend long, these girls brought it, going 6-0 in the Gold bracket with 63 runs scored, giving up only 11. Emma Gilbert, Ellery Vannerus, Addlie Boles, Hailey Leimas, Brooklyn Espinoza, Sophia Kilby, Kaitlyn Clark, Karlee Parra, and Zoey Miller all collected multiple hits over the weekend. Collectively, the Crushers’ players had 55 hits, with 3 home runs. One was by Hailey Leimas, and then back-to-back-to-back home runs in the championship game by Emma Gilbert and Ellery Vannerus , which sealed the win.

Pitching over the weekend by Ellery Vannerus and Hailey Leimas was stellar, collecting 31 strikeouts while giving up 11 runs and a batting average for opposing players of .148.

Lastly, on defense, the Crushers were able to convert 3 double plays with outstanding field play, and behind the plate, Sophia Kilby and Emma Gilbert were able to keep teams at bay on stolen bases all weekend. Congrats team on an amazing Fall 2025! Can’t wait to see what’s next!

🏆 Crushers 12U Purple take NorCal’s! Our 12U Purple team wrapped up their fall season by winning the NorCal Fall Closer last weekend in Hayward.

The Crushers outscored their opponents 64–31 and banged out 50 hits in six games. Gabby Hamdani proved herself a massive threat in the leadoff position, posting a .733 average for the weekend including hitting for the cycle, 11 RBI’s, 9 runs scored and ZERO strikeouts. 🔥
Rose Robinson crushed it at the plate with six hits including a triple, a homer and 9 RBI’s. Tahlia Cellura kept pace, scoring 10 runs on the weekend, hitting .556 at the plate with zero strikeouts and an impressive 3 total walks. Miranda Soto-Brown brought the power with 3 doubles on the weekend.

Crusher defense was led by strong performances from Lucy Jamieson (2B), Mele Mason (1B) and Lorelei Nunez (CF). On the mound, BT Thomas led with a 2.70 ERA, 0.90 WHIP, 7 strikeouts and only 1 hit allowed all weekend. The depth of this team was truly on display all weekend, with a new hero showing up in every game. In the Championship Game, the Crushers took the lead on a massive pinch-hit sac fly from Reese OHara, making the dugout (and the crowd) go wild! Congratulations on an amazing tourney to close Fall, ladies 💜

“Proud of the energy, the team-first at-bats, and the way we stacked pressure every inning. Let’s keep building!” - Coach Jon Jamieson

Our 10U Crushers teams had so much fun at the Field of Scream last weekend!
💜 🏆 10U Grey rocked their custom Sunflower Seeds costumes on their way to take second place in the silver bracket! The team was led by Crusher veteran Joie Martinez - she played all over the diamond including catcher, she hit a couple of BOMBS and most importantly she was the most supportive and encouraging teammate. She showed some true leadership skills and represented everything a Crusher should be!
💜10U Lavender had a great weekend showing how much progress they’ve made this fall. The girls dressed as Pac Man! Coach Beto wants to give his WHOLE team a shoutout - they were little warriors out there and never gave up! The team was led by Birdie Mae Elliott this weekend who played hard and had a fantastic weekend on the field.

💜Crushers putting in the extra work! Thank you for hosting an awesome clinic this weekend!

🥎💜 Crushers 12U Purple had a great start to the fall last weekend, taking second place in the USA Softball Fall Opener! Across six games, the team combined for 58 hits and 71 runs. Pitching was equally impressive, giving up just 8 earned runs over 23 innings, striking out 27 and combining for an ERA of 2.118. Highlights include a massive homerun from Elyce Forbes, 11 of Miranda’s 15 strikeouts were looking(!) and Rose Robinson and Tahlia Cellura each had 8 hits over the weekend. We are so excited to watch this team grow!

Our Crushers 10U teams kicked off a fantastic fall season last week at the USA Softball Fall Opener! 💜 Shoutout to Sofia from 10U Grey for pitching great and being the first player to rock the Crushers Slay Queen chain!!💪🏼👑 Coach Beto from 10U Lavender wants to shout out his entire team for showing up, bonding and having fun! With an extra special shoutout to Hadlee for being an amazing leader over the weekend 🥎💜

🥎 Crushers Fall Ball 2025 🥎
We are so excited to spend fall with these girls and can’t wait to watch them succeed! Thank you to all of our amazing volunteer coaches for leading the way💜

Crushers 14U wrapped up an incredible summer with an awesome win to take the 🏆 at the Stateline Showdown in Lake Tahoe. The team benefited from a very strong pitching performance from Hailey Leimas, and a multiple RBI evening from both Addie Boles and Sophia Kilby. Along with their amazing them, these ladies helped their team take the win over Windsor Wicked, 8-4.  The Crushers 14U team closed out the summer with 3 tournament wins.  More to come as we sift through the photos and awesome highlights of the Crushers 14’s season! 💜🥎

FALL BALL TRYOUTS!
🥎 Register at link in bio
🥎 8U-16U teams: come check out our growing, local Non-Profit organization!
🥎 Please arrive early for your tryout session to sign-in and properly warm up.

✨Crushers x Tahoe 2025 … a few pics from the trip so far… 💜🥎⛰️

🥎Blast by the Bay 2025🥎
A few highlights from our tournament last weekend: 14U Crushers took home first place in their division, 8U Purple Crushers brought home second place, 10U C Crushers mounted a 10-run comeback in their final at-bat of a semifinal game - we could go on and on! More photos to come 💜🥎

Huge thanks and appreciation for all the teams and families who traveled to Santa Cruz for the weekend! We truly enjoyed hosting you all. Congratulations to all the champions!!

🏆 14U: Crushers
🏆12B: Red Barons
🏆12C: Mountain Dream
🏆10B: San Mateo Slammers
🏆10C: Mountain Dream
🏆8U: Campbell Crush