TEAMS 2009

The North Shore Storm is a ten year old, established successful Junior Olympic Softball program based on the North Shore of Massachusetts consisting of seven teams, 90 players, 40 cities ranging from 9-18.

The Storm takes pride in teaching the many subtleties of softball, and playing an aggressive, unselfish, brand of softball.

Our teams participate in "A" level fast pitch tournaments throughout the region starting in May and running until late August (about two weekends a month.

Our focus is on developing skills in a positive environment starting in January and progressing through August, the measure of the program’s success is if each player has noticeably improved their softball skills and had a positive experience.

Weekend Tournaments teams play 6-9 competitive tournaments focused in the North Eastern part of New England (roughly 35 games)
Winter program starts in January and runs through March with approximately 15 sessions.
Tryouts August with dates to be announced early fall, please check back.
Program costs are in line or lower than most established JO programs.

U12 Storm Heading to Tennessee!

It’s very exciting and the chance of a lifetime for us.  The Series will be played from July 19 – 26, 2009.  We are the only team in all of New England who will compete against nearly sixty really good teams from around the United States!

We have a very short time to get everything together and we all need to gather sponsors and support to help us get there.  Anything you could do to help would be appreciated.  We will thank you on our website and in the news papers. We plan to get a team picture to all our sponsors too!

These are hard times to ask for favors but I need one.  Could you please help us with a check payable to The North Shore Storm for $50 or $100 or anything you can to help us get there? 

Send donations to

North Shore Storm

9 Forest Street

Danvers, MA 01923

Please let us know the player you are sponsoring or entire team, thank you!

Read John's article on the Storm

Storm News

June 28th 2009

U16 ASA State Champs!

U12 ASA Metro Boston Champs!

U16 - ASA State Champs

U12 ASA Metro Boston Champs

U13 3rd Overall ASA Metro Boston

U14 - 4th Overall ASA Metro Boston

U10 5th Overall ASA Metro Boston

U15 - 5th Overall Metro Boston

June 20th 2009 – Lots of Storm action over fathers day weekend.

The U18A, U14, U13 and U12s all played this weekend in very challenging weather conditions. The 18s had a great Saturday and finished with a #2 seed. The 14s split there games on Saturday and had the 5th seed while the 13s won one and tied one and went into Sunday as a 2 seed and the 12s 2-0 Saturday landed them the 3 seed. More details to follw!

June 14st 2009 – U18s place 2^nd in ASA National Qualifier!

The U18A North Shore Storm Jr. Olympic softball team began their 2009 season with a bang!  The ladies finished 2^nd in the just completed ASA National Qualifier tournament held in Gloucester, MA.  The placement grants an invitation to the team to attend the National’s Tournament, to be held in Las Vegas, NV. in July!

To get to the finals, the Storm won 2 Saturday games, over the Charlton Wildfire & the Mass Pressure.  Sunday began with the ladies playing in the Winner’s bracket final against the eventual tourney champion, Saratoga Thunder of NY.  The Thunder broke open a tied game in the 5^th inning, leading to a victory.  Next, the Storm ladies again played the Mass. Pressure.  The Pressure lead early, but the Storm battled back.  The game ended up tied and went into the International Tie-Breaker situation.  The Pressure struck first with 1 run.  The Storm then scraped up 2 runs for the victory, with the winning run scoring on a perfectly executed suicide-squeeze play between Samantha Barker (Lynn) and Cara Crowley (Lynn). This set up a showdown in the finals against the Thunder.  The Thunder jumped out to an early lead.  The Storm then “stormed” back for to go up, before finally dropping a heartbreaker in the bottom of the 7^th inning.

Head Coach John Gambale said, “This was a fantastic start to our summer.  We’ve had few opportunities for full team practices, so this was looked at as a working-weekend for the girls.  Well, they improved every game! 

May 31st 2009 – U10s finish 3rd overall! The Storm U10s are in action for the first time in 2009 and on Saturday showed they will be a force this season by securing a #2 seed over all! The first game was their only loss to a strong S Maine Flames 7-5, after that they beat the NE Firebirds 11-8 and then beat an undefeated Westford Wave team 1-0. They played Sunday at 10 am in the championship round and faced the Waves again, this time the Wav3es came out on top 14-7 however the team and coaches felt the score was not indicative of how close the teams are and they will see each other again.

READ ABOUT IT U10s!

May 24th 2009 – U12s Win again, U13s finish 3rd and 14s get their feet wet.

The Storm had 3 teams compete this weekend and competed well. The 12s continue to roll going 4-1 overall and winning their 2nd consecutive championship behind solid pitching, steady defense and aggressive base running. The u13s had a great Sunday showing beating the Hudson Heat in a game that went into International tie braking format, then playing the  Firecracker Fury tough in the semi finals. Finally the U14s had their first tourney games as a team and had a tough draw but hung tough Saturday and improved every game.

May 3^rd 2009 – U12 May Madness Champions!

The u12 Storm team started the season off on the right foot this weekend with a 4-0-1 record and a tournament championship in Dracut MA. The team was put together this season after the graduating u12 from 2008 moved up together competing at u14. Not bad for their first games together! 

May 3^rd 2009 – U14

The u13 Storm played in their first U14 tournament this weekend showing a strong effort on Saturday behind Courtney, Becky and Kendall’s pitching. Saturday ended with the team seeding 3^rd of 8 teams. Despite the youth of the team they were very successful Saturday while plying shorthanded most of the day.

On Sunday the u13s had a rematch with the Hudson Heat and just missed a semi final birth with the Mass Drifters who they last played in the semi finals in the teams first tourney last year as u12s. The tournament goal was to get the young teams feet wet and prep for the season, they worked out a few things and have a bright season ahead with hard work and commitment.

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