Kiley Shea Aldridge plans to rejoin her teammates on the field at Cabrillo next spring, but there is this other thing to take care of first...Dan Aldridge reports that Cabrillo High sophmore Kiley Shae Aldridge is one of the 12 Fresno Force players travelling to Owensboro, Kentucky to compete for the 16U National Championship. With 145 teams from across the U.S. entered. The tournament is set up to play 2 pool games, after that it is a double elimination tournament. The first games are this coming Monday. The Force are scheduled to play the Homer Hawks of Illinois at 8:00am.
Aldridge is the only Sophmore on the squad (6 Seniors, 5 Juniors), which consists of players from eight High Schools -Buchanan, Clovis West, Bullard and Sanger High Schools in the Fresno Area, plus Lemoore High, Porterville High, Atascadero, and our own Cabrillo.
The head coach of the Force is professional player (Fast Pitch Extreme Tour) Randi Berg. Berg was an ASA All-American (Fresno St) & Womens Professional Softball League (WPSL) Defensive Player of the Year. Her twin sister Laura Berg is a 3 time Olympic Gold Medal Winner (and the only starting centerfielder in US Olympic history), who will be competing for her 4th next month.
Kiley Shea, a pitcher, is also working with the pitching coach, Courtney Dale. Dale, the 1999 College World Series MVP won an NCAA Championship (UCLA), Junior Women's World Championship, a Japanese League Championship, and ASA 18U & 16U National Championships. She also followed Lisa Fernadez as an assistant coach at UCLA where she had been 56-5 as a player (while hitting 17 homers). -- el stato
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