High School Softball Tourney Underway Again in South Philadelphia
By Tim Jimenez
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Some of the best high school softball players in the Delaware Valley are playing ball this week in the shadow of the South Philadelphia sports complex.
Today, it wasn't a bad day for a ballgame, or a day to lead off a full week of them. Some 250 players were hitting the fields at FDR Park for the 11th annual Phillies Softball Carpenter Cup.
Jess Wilt, with the Phillies, helps put it all together.
"We have teams from Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey coming here to compete in front of college scouts," she said today. And that means a chance to pick up a scholarship, which catches the attention of 17-year-old Taylor Sirolli, from St. Joseph High School, in Hammonton, NJ.
"I just want to keep playing because I couldn't not. Because I love the sport so much," she told KYW Newsradio.
Sirolli is part of the Tri-Cape Team (made up of all-stars from the Cape Atlantic League and the Tri-County Conference), which won the Carpenter Cup last year. And she would love to recapture that feeling of playing with the best and beating the best the area has to offer.
"It was a great experience to be with everyone and work our butts off, and we got along so well," she said today. "That made it a great accomplishment: making it all the way to the finals and beating the Jersey Shore team, twice, to win it all!"
