Saturday was the first of the two day tryouts to finalize the Jr. National Team that will be announced Monday by 11 am (from what we hear).

There were 27 players invited initially, including 10 high schoolers, and on Friday 10 more players were asked to show up Saturday morning after an open tryout consisting of approximately 100 players.

Note: I am currently in Texas – the reason I’ll cover this week – so I wasn’t at the Irvine, Calif. workouts on Saturday but I did get reports from some who were observers.

Here are some notes on some of the action from those who observed the action…

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* Alissa Dalton, the junior infielder from Cypress, Texas who we profiled on Friday, had to leave the tryouts after suffering an apparent shoulder separation in the second hour of the workouts and go get x-rays.

Hopefully, it’s nothing too serious… we’ll have more on her situation this week.

* The pitching dominated the Saturday action, from what we hear. Many of the top young hitters in the game had “o-fers.”

Taran Alvelo, the 2015 commit to Washington with the Beverly Bandits, and Allison Walljasper, the freshman at LSU, pitched the first game and both threw well.

The structure is such that each pitcher faces all the hitter, throwing to four batters and then switching.

* In the second game it was 2015 Arizona signee Taylor McQuillin from OC Batbusters Haning/Stith and UCLA freshman Johanna Grauer, both of whom were honored as high school National Players of the Year—McQuillin by Gatorade and Grauer by MaxPreps.

Taylor’s high school (Mission Viejo) and club teammate, Alyssa Palomino, wasn’t too kind as she slugged a home run off the pitcher as did Tennessee freshman infielder Megan Gregg.

Oregon freshman infielder Jenna Lilley knocked a home run off pitcher Rachel Garcia, the UCLA signee who plays for the Corona Angels.

* Garcia didn’t finish but reportedly will pitch more on Sunday versus Dallas McBride, the freshman at New Mexico State

Also scheduled to take the field on the last day of tryouts will be flame thrower Kelly Barnhill, the 2015 Florida signee who plays for East Cobb Bullets-Schnute, versus Tera Blanco, the freshman at Michigan.