The bar has been set high for Quesnel’s Girls Softball U17B Chaos team, who has won Bronze in the Silver Pool at the 2025 BC Softball Provincials.
“It was a huge accomplishment for us. I am so proud of the girls,” says Coach Kaitlyn Doucette.
“We started this team in August 2024. This is our first B Team to ever come out of Quesnel. For these girls to have gone to all these tournaments and put Quesnel on the map at the very final one. It’s pretty exciting.”
The Quesnel Girls Softball Association bumped their U17 C Team up to a B Travel Team nearly a year ago. Since then, the team has travelled around the province to play in tournaments. The experience gave the team “good experience” in Coach Doucette’s perspective, as the Chaos team was able to play most of the teams at provincials a few times this year.
This year, the Provincials were held in Kelowna from July 18 to July 20. The Quesnel Chaos Girls played a round robin on Friday and Saturday.
Winning 5 to 2 against the Nanamio Diamonds 09 on Friday.
The Chaos team took a little bit of a tumble in the Round Robin, but bounced back with a 9 to 2 win against the Delta Inferno 09 in the Chaos’ first game of the playoffs on Sunday.
Chaos fell 8 to 4 in their second Sunday game against the Alberni Valley Blazers 08.
However, against the West Kootenay Rebels, the Chaos rallied back with a commanding 13 to 6 victory. Bringing home the Bronze.
“We were fortunate to see a lot of good teams this year, and I know a lot of these girls haven’t seen this level of competition before,” Doucette said on her team’s performance.
“Getting them up to that level, and to get to see what they should expect, was pretty well off of them. We were pretty even with a lot of the teams we played against in Provincials. There were some tough games, but the girls stuck through to the very last innings. They competed very well this weekend.”
With the season wrapped up, the U17B Girls are going to get some much-needed and well-deserved rest of running around and competing.
Seven of the U17B team will be moving up to Quesnel Girls Softball Association’s U19 team.
Doucette isn’t worried about the bar her and the U17B Chaos team have set for themselves in their first year of competition.
“I know our U15 chaos team’s girls moving up to our U17 team. Quesnel has a very good ball, and I don’t think these girls are going to hurt one bit and have any issues competing to how the girls did this year.”
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