Girls of TNT are Western fast-pitch softball champs

There’s No Tomorrow, a Beach Cities-based 14-and-under fast-pitch

travel softball team, went undefeated in tournament play to capture

the Amateur Softball Assn. Western Nationals championship.

Jenny Driver of Huntington Beach High School is a member of

There’s No Tomorrow, also known as TNT.

By winning the tournament, TNT secured a berth for the upcoming

2006 Amateur Softball Assn. National Championships in Seattle, Wash.

TNT posted a 7-0 record en route to winning the Western Nationals

at the Buchanan Softball Complex in Clovis. TNT scored 42 runs and

gave up only nine runs during the six-day tournament.

Each game in the 68-team tournament was played in temperatures

ranging from 100 to 110 degrees.

TNT’s championship run was powered by the hitting, pitching and

defense of Driver, Gina Alcaraz, Angie Busenburg, Danielle Delany

(Fountain Valley High), Stephanie Mello (Newport Harbor), Jane

Messersmith (Newport Harbor), Callie Nikoletich, Stephanie Pendleton,

Marti Reed, Janae Townsend, Kristina Williamson.

TNT is coached and managed by Tim Pendleton, Dennis Delany, Kim

Nikoletich, Mike Mello and Mike Driver.

The Amateur Softball Assn. is the national governing body of

amateur softball.