The Asteroidz are (front row, left to right) Alexis Blogett, Beth Moore, Lauren Hall, (back row) Molly McCafferty, Ashley Quirrion, Alexi Deering, Brittany DiPompo, Emily Acritelli, Alannah White and Kayla Merrill. (Contributed photo) SALISBURY, Md. — The Asteroidz, a team from Jay, competed in the ASA JO 16 U "Class A" Eastern National Championship tournament in Salisbury, Md. recently.

The Asteroidz is made up of athletes from Jay, Oak Hill, Telstar and Mt Abram high schools and are coached by Andy Quirrion, Dan DiPompo and Mark Richards.

In the tournament of sixty-four teams, the Asteroidz played elite fast-pitch softball teams from the northeast region. In their first game of the tournament the Ohio Kaos defeated the Asteroidz. Later in the day, the team rebounded to defeat the New York Lady Bandits.

The following day they faced the STP Ponies from New York and lost a tough 1-0 game. Later in the day they beat the Catonville Chaos from Maryland. On Friday they defeated the Pennville Gems out of Pennsylvania. The Delaware Diamonds defeated the Asteroidz knocking them out of the tournament.

All in all the team went three and three for the tournament.