Abington Angels Win State Championship

The Abington Angels Fast Pitch 12U team won the USSSA Pennsylvania State Championship in Hilltown over the weekend.

The Angels went undefeated on Sunday, July 8, winning four straight games to capture the state title.

From Sunday’s single elimination games:

• Abington Angels 3 – Valley Forge Patriots 2

• Abington Angels 2 – Spring-Ford Sting 0

• Abington Angels 8 – Newtown Rock 2K – 7

• Abington Angels 6 – Lehigh Valley Phantoms 3 (Championship Game)

The Abington Angels are in their 19th consecutive year of teaching local girls the game of fast pitch softball, and preparing them for high school varsity play.  The majority of the Angels’ players come from Abington, Cheltenham, Upper Dublin, Upper Moreland, Lower Moreland, Ambler and northeast Philadelphia.

The team offers competitive tournament travel softball for girls aged 11 to 19 and competes in ASA, PONY, USSSA, NSA, FAST, NASF and league play. 

For more information about the team, click here.

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Pictured above, from left to right, are:

• Top Row, coaches Paul Hammond, Joe Brusha, Don Baldwin, John Brandenburger and Joe Bernstein

• Second Row, Siani Paige Miller, Jenny Locke, Maddie Brody,  Sam Brusha

• Third Row, Kate Hammond, Peyton Baldwin, Olivia Bernstein, Tori Brandenburger and Hannah Dalton

• Bottom Row – Mackenzie Greiner and Sarah Sharpe

• Not Shown is Brooke Clewell