North West coach Sherelle Moore said this week's state CHS girls softball carnival at North Curl Curl was a "great learning and building experience" for the side.
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And it might have unearthed some undiscovered talent.
Backing up from starring at the state cricket carnival last week Oxley High's Claire McGuirk was named the side's most valuable player.
"She hasn't played softball since, she said, primary school," Moore said.
"Obviously her cricket skills have translated into softball."
"She played in the outfield and took some great catches and has an amazing throw."
She was also one of their most consistent batters.
School-mate Paula Cabuhat was adjudged the players player but it was a pretty close tussle with only a point between her, and Kassady Crump (Peel High) and Brianna-Maree Goman (Tamworth High). Isabelle Kesby (Peel High) also had a strong carnival and won the coaches' award.
The side didn't manage to pick up a win but "played some great softball" over the three days Moore said, and were competitive in a lot of their games.
There was just that one innings, she said, where the opposition scored a lot of their runs. Take that out, and there were probably three or four games where they could have won or at least picked up a draw.
"A lot of the time that was due to our game inexperience," Moore said.
Probably only around half of the team play in a regular softball competition. The rest maybe play one or two games a year in the knock-out.
"The girls weren't used to playing that much softball," Moore said.
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Even for the girls that do actually play in a competition, it was still a big ask playing three games a day.
Especially given they had only had the chance to train twice before the championships.
But Moore said they learnt a lot, and really improved over the week. She also noted that one of the other team's coaches commented on how much improvement North West has made just in a softball sense over the last couple of years.
She said Crump pitched really well over the carnival.
"We really relied on her," she said.
Kesby meanwhile showed her improved strength at catcher.
Moore also made mention of Madison Heywood (Coonabarabran High).
"She's one of the one's that doesn't play but we put her at short-stop one of the games and she played well beyond her experience," she said.
As a result she ended up playing there for a couple more games.
Quirindi High's Faith Green was the baby of the team but the Year 7 student was unfazed, Moore said, playing against girls a lot older than her.
"When she got into the ball she hit it really hard," she said.