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The Alameda 12U Blaze were fast starters in the San Ramon Valley Girls Softball Association Tournament on June 16-17, but were shaky finishers, giving up last inning leads in 3 of their 4 games.

The Blaze started slowly, dropping their first game to the Albany/Berkeley Sting, 6-1. The Blaze managed only 1 hit, an RBI single by Gianna Ratto. The Blaze were sloppy in the field, giving up 3 unearned first inning runs, and never recovered.

The Blaze came back strong in their second game against the Belmont Blast, leading 6-5 going into the 5th inning. The Blast came through with 7 runs in the fifth, and then stopped a Blaze rally short in the bottom half of the inning, sending the Blaze to a 12-8 defeat. The Blaze bats came alive this game, led by Mia Musso with 3 hits and Erika Boeckling and Gianna Ratto with 2 hits each. Jessica Ravetti knocked in a run with a sacrifice fly to deep center field.

In the final Saturday seeding game, the Blaze took an early 4-0 lead over the Oakland Vipers, leveraging 4 Viper errors with their only hit in the inning, a Kayla Simonson single. They led 6-2 after four innings after RBI singles by Drew Jones and Erika Boeckling. Again, they failed to hold their lead, giving up four runs in the fifth, and settling for a 6-6 tie.

In elimination play on Sunday, the Blaze opened strong against the higher seeded Calaveras Sliders, batting around and scoring 6 in the first inning. Michelle Popelka had a single and double, while Kayla Simonson, Keilani Finley-Jensen, and Jessica Ravetti all smashed long doubles, and Gianna Ratto and Drew Jones added singles, all in the first inning. The Blaze continued their hot hitting, adding a run in the third on Drew Jones and Gia Morten singles, and two in the fourth on Gianna Ratto and Jessica Ravetti singles. Ratto stole home, beating the tag with a nice slide, in spite of a perfect throw home on a double steal. The Sliders started creeping back, scoring in each inning. Clutch fielding plays by the Blaze, including two long throws from short by Gianna Ratto and a diving catch of a foul pop by catcher Jessica Ravetti, helped the Blaze hold tenuously onto a 9-7 lead going into the fifth inning. Once again, the game lasted one inning too long, as the Sliders came through with 5 runs in the fifth and sent the Blaze to a 12-9 elimination defeat