For some softball players, summer represents downtime after the spring season has ended. For a select few, however, the real battle just starts to heat up in July, as traveling tournament teams prepare for regional World Series events. For those chosen few, there is no downtime.

The Stafford Stingrays, a traveling tournament softball organization for girls in various age ranges and a branch of the Stafford Girls Softball Association, are geared up and ready to make a push to improve what have…