By james art 
The word “intense” appears often when UVA chief coach Joanna Hardin described his team at The Shriners Children’s Clearwater Invitational last weekend at Clearwater, Florida. The cavaliers were confronted with three ranked opponents, defeated two of them, suffered two losses in additional passes, and pulled a huge disorder against then. 4 ucla for a walk home to end the weekend.
“Not only the teams we played and the ranking and all these things, but it was just the intensity of this tournament,” Hardin recalled. “You go there with Softball programs at the National Championship and coaches of the National Championship, and ESPN is everywhere, there are interviews and fans and it is so strong and feels like a championship environment.”
When the cavaliers returned home to prepare for the opening at home with Mizuno Classic at Palmer Park, it took them a few days to rest and recover from this experience. The start of the games of this weekend has been delayed by a few days due to the adverse time, it could be a disguised blessing.
But when the home tournament began at last, Hardin’s Cavaliers showed that they were ready to go again, and more importantly, they did not show any symptoms of a hangover coming out of drainage and tax trip to Clearwater. Virginia played five games in three days this weekend at Palmer Park, winning all five, including the last two through Run-Rule and hit nine home runs along the way.
Pen led 1-0 to the victim of a fly in the third Innning, but that was the only time the quakes reached Julia Kuozo, or Eden Bigum, who set the final four subsections and hit five flowers to win their first victory of the season. The game remained 1-0 to the fifth Inning when Kajelin Jones and Jade Hilton hit RBI threes. Bella Cabral struck the first home run over the weekend in the sixth, standalone shot in the center of the field. Virginia received two more RBI single tracks from Sydney Hartgrove and RBI Double Rom Reece Holbrook to make 5-1.
UVA is lagging again at the beginning of the second game of the day, as Sydney’s Sydney Safer hit solo home run and then Schaffer also delivered a RBI single in the third to make 2-0 in favor of the blue hens. Like the Penn game, however, Virginia bounced from her slow start on the plate with a clutch later, receiving a double, two-time counterpart from Macee Eaton in the fifth Inning to connect the game. In the sixth Inning single from Kailin Jones, he scored a Kamiri Woody-Gigates to give a lead to Virginia, and then Kelly Ayer hit a single single in the middle to make 5-2. Savannah Henley improved to 4-1 in the season as she was credited for the victory from Bulpen, while Eden Bigum won her fourth rescue of the season.
Pitching manages the first match on Sunday for The Cavaliers, as freshman Ava Hodges won her first career while she scored five unsuccessful passes, gave up only three hits and struck four tests before handing the ball to Courtney Line, who won who won Rescue and maintained the suspension in the last two passes. Hoos finally got some early insult, as Jade Hilton hit a home leader at home in the first Innning home, but they did not score again to four submits later. Hilton and Kelsey Hackett delivered flies to the fifth and sixth passes to give Virginia a 3-0 lead, which took place as a final result.
UVA’s crime comes to life in the fourth game of the weekend, as Cavaliers put four tracks in the first RBI single innning by Macee Eaton and a three -time home run by MC Eaton. Delaware scored a mileage in the second, and then Bella Cabral struck a stand-alone Homer in the third, but Delaware fired back with a self-home run in the fourth to make 5-2. Virginia essentially placed the game with four more points at the bottom of the heel by scoring twice on RBI grounding, once on wild terrain and once on a RBI double by Macee Eaton. Cabral struck his second household in the game, a two -time bomb in the sixth, which served a walk to trigger the running rule. Eden Bigham threw a full game and hit six in his second victory of the season.
It was purely dominance for Virginia in the final game of Mizuno Classic when The Cavaliers struck four household runs and spilled Longwood in a 10-0 blowing tune in five passes. Virginia scored three tracks in the first, including two -time Homer from MC Eaton, then two in the second in a two -time Jade Hilton home match. UVA decided to launch the fast Woody-Giggetts Pinch Camery on the first base in the third and this move immediately paid off as it scored from the first easily to a triple from Rees Holbrook. Hilton struck his second host of the game and in the third, two-time home-running to make 8-0. Kelsey Hackett shot a double shot at the left field Bulp in the fourth to limit the 10-0 victory. Julia Kuozo won the victory by throwing four unsuccessful passes, and Savannah Henley struck sideways in the heel to seal her.
Winners in six consecutive games to improve to 10-5 during the season, Virginia will host another invited tournament in Palmer Park next weekend with Cornell, Seton Hall and Hofstra, coming to Charlottsville for the Palmer Invitational Party.
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