Doc4Life Softball Tournament (Ocala, Fla.): Photos from Day 1

This weekend is the 18th annual Doc4Life Softball Tournament in Ocala, Forida.   This year, 19 high school teams are participating in the event.

Florida softball teams go to this tournament to help prepare them for their upcoming district championship games.

Here is a list of the teams who are participating this weekend

From Ponte Vedra HS team in North Florida, here is Scotland David who is a committed 2020.   Scotland is committed to Oklahoma State University and plays travel ball for Jacksonville Storm.  Also in photo is Olivia Zitiello who is an uncommitted 2020 and plays travel ball for Florida Select.

At Doc4Life from Creekside HS and Matanzas HS teams, these four girls below played travel ball together when they were younger for Jacksonville Fusion ‘02 and Gold Coast Hurricanes in 12u and 14u, making memories playing at Rising Stars Showcase, ASA-USA Southern Nationals, and earned a few Florida State Championship titles together as teammates.

• Ally Bratek- She now plays for Inferno-Humphrey out of North Florida.  She recently verbally committed to Division I softball at Jacksonville University!
• Mallorie Sykes/uncommitted 2020 now plays softball for Firecrackers Sewell out of Georgia.
• Lovie Haley/uncommitted 2021 who now plays softball for Firecrackers Hoopes 16u out of Tampa, Florida.
• Lauren Bevis/uncommitted 2021, she now plays softball for the Birmingham Thunderbolts out of Alabama.

Lake Brantley HS team is stacked with talent.  Here are six college commits from the Patriots including:  Victoria Rodriguez/Firecrackers Hoopes/ Tennessee State University commit; Gabby Sacco/Florida Storm/FAU commit; Logan Jackson/NJ Intensity/UNF commit; KK Gill/Rebels/St. Pete commit; Kendall Chase/NJ Intensity/Purdue commit, and Payden Bordeau/Firecrackers Sewell/University of Georgia commit.

Bellview High School hosts the Doc4Life tournament and Head Coach Gary Greer states, “Our high school team is young, we lost 11 players to college ball this past year.”  Coach Greer also explained that he had teams enrolled in the tournament from as far south as Miami and as far north as Tallahassee.

Here is the Bellevue High softball team playing against Matanzas high school today.  In photo, Matanzas High is in the field, while a Bellview player is up to bat.  Matanzas won by a score of 2-1 and went undefeated on Friday with a large squad of 17 varsity players.

Finally, here is Clewiston HS arriving to Doc4Life to prepare for a big day of softball!