A couple of Portage la Prairie softballers returned from PEI with a bronze medal earlier this week.

It was the 2016 U18 Women's Canadian Fast Pitch Championship in Charlottetown. Portage la Prairie pitchers Emily Smith and Sarah Thomson with the Smittys Terminators both the returned with some hardware. They fell 3-2 to the BC Renegades 99 team to capture the bronze medal, after going through 3-cut down's to make it to the final 3. Smith says it was some serious competition.

"Every team there was good, especially in the top 9. There were no bad teams competing and every out was a big out."

Smith says this year was a little different than last year because they were able to get out and enjoy PEI.

"It was beautiful, and we got a lot of time to do stuff and walk around this time. Other nationals we haven't been able to, and it was just so pretty there and everyone was so friendly in PEI.

Smith comments on what it was like to have a good friend like Sarah on the team with her.

"It's pretty crazy to think about how we started playing ball and now we won bronze together. I've played with her a lot throughout the years, and in the end, it was almost Sarah would pitch and I would come in the last two innings and relieve her. So it was kind of cool that we were both in Portage and we got to play such big roles."

Several other of Smith's teammates from the PCI Saints also made the trip out including Kassidy and Kennedy Cunningham and Natanish Wall with Central Energy. Smith leaves for Valley City State University in North Dakota on Friday.