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Club News: Randy Gale’s Successful Firecrackers 18 Team Joins Triple Crown Colorado (August 20, 2024)

By Brentt Eads

August 20, 2024

Triple Crown Colorado Softball now has two 18U teams, a 16U and the Women's Team.

Club News: Randy Gale’s Successful Firecrackers 18 Team Joins Triple Crown Colorado (August 20, 2024)

Triple Crown Colorado (TC Colorado) announced today that accomplished travel ball head coach Randy Gale will be bringing his 18 Gold Firecrackers team into the organization.

“Coach Gale’s team will be an addition to our already existing 18 Gold roster coached by Krista Crawford and our 16 & Under roster coached by Katrina Magaro,” the release noted.

The team’s name will be “TC Colorado Gale 18 Gold” moving forward and will continue to be based in Firestone, Colo. as one of four teams in TC Colorado along with TC Colorado 18 Gold – Crawford, TC Colorado 16 & Under – Magaro and TC Colorado Women’s – King (led by Dave King, the founder of Triple Crown Sports in 1982).

Gale brings in a deep bench of talented travel ball athletes for his own squad.

“We have four committed players and some top talent returning,” Gale told Line Drive Softball this afternoon about his returning lineup which ranges in ages from 2025 grads down to a pair of standout 2028’s.

Randy Gale has a strong 18U team filled with experienced seniors and promising underclassmen.

The committed players include the Pearson sisters, infielders Mackenzie and Victoria Pearson, who are high school seniors committed to Div. II Metro State University in Denver, and fellow 2025 grads Jesse Nichols and Danielle Duran, who will play at Washburn, a DII school in Topeka, Kansas.

Headlining the talented underclass group is 2026 infielder Julia Savage, who slugged 31 home runs last season for Gale’s team and is being heavily recruited by Power 4 programs.

The pitching should be solid once again with the return of uncommitted 2025 hurler Payton Torres, who went 19-4 this year against some of top teams in country, and new addition Kianna Butler, a top uncommitted senior pitcher considered one of the best in Colorado.

*** Click HERE to read more about Coach Gale via his Alliance bio page.

The former baseball player’s teams have perennially faced a strong nationally competitive schedule including 2024 events such as the Triple Crown Sports (TCS) Nationals, the Alliance Nationals and the Top Club Nationals, where the 18U-aged team finished 11th.

Both sides see the merger as being a great move to help each other.

“This partnership will give more athletes in the region an opportunity to be part of an organization with a long-standing record of competing at the highest level,” a spokesman for TC Colorado added.

“Bringing in Coach Gale and his team will make an immediate impact for TC Colorado and continue to elevate a tradition of success.”

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Triple Crown Colorado Gale 18 Gold Roster:

First

Last

Pos

Grad Year

Kianna

Butler

1B/P

2025

Danielle

Duran

IF/UT

2025

Kaitlyn

Halliday

SS/OF

2026

Bella

Juarez

OF/UT

2028

Jesse

Nichols

UT/P

2025

Mackenzie

Pearson

3B/C

2025

Victoria

Pearson

SS/OF

2025

Jaelyn

Sandavol

CIF

2026

Julia

Savage

SS/OF

2026

Ella

Stromberg

2B/OF

2028

Addilyn

Sulley

P/OF

2027

Brynlee

Taga

C/UT

2027

Payton

Torres

P/UT

2025

Malia

Zufall

OF/1B

2027

Brentt Eads/Line Drive Softbal

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