The "Pitchers" women's slow pitch team, in cooperation with Triple Crown
Sports and Rocky Mountain USSSA, announce the return of the 4th of July Mountain Magic adult slow pitch softball tournament in Steamboat Springs,
Colorado! For more information, please visit www.triplecrownsports.com
So that's the official release above. Now a more personal take. Steamboat is good for softball and when Patty approached me with this a month or so ago
it was a no brainer to me. Add the beauty of Steamboat, a holiday weekend, the know how of Patty and her TCS team and USSSA's advertising power and
umpires and we have a winner.
We got the logistics figured out, now you guys have to go fill the event. She has a hard cap of 65 teams so that they can keep the event entirely in
Steamboat. It's first come first served and you're not in till you're paid. You can get full details, at least the ones we've figured out so
far here
http://www.triplecrownsports.com/tourny_detail.asp?tournyid=3852
All divisions are sanctioned so you'll get points
Men's Upper is for CC teams and any other teams that want to swing their own bats. I think she has upper set up for 3 HR's and dependent on what we
get for entries it will probably be power bracketed. Think 'open' for this division.
Men's Lower will be wood bat and open to anybody who wants to swing wood bats for the weekend.
Two divisions of Women's- the usual upper and lower and they may be combined
Open division for Mixed and they're setting up the fences at 200 feet. Guys will hit the 16" Chicago Big Ball and Ladies will hit the 12"
Men's Ball.
No conflict for the weekend as always.
We've eliminated the Loveland July 4 NIT but we'll be offering something down here that weekend for teams that prefer to stay closer to home. I
don't know if we'll be replacing the NIT yet or if that is going to prove a one year deal and in our past.
I also have to sit down with Smoke about the Spider. Leaving these tournaments back to back may hurt both and that certainly isn't our goal. In the past
Spider fell the following weekend and I'd like to push it back to July 16-18 if he can do that.
More to follow as we set the schedule for 2010 in the coming month
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Posts: 2494 (11/04/2009 15:11:33) RMUSSSA State Director |
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Posts: 156 (11/04/2009 16:47:12) |
No offense, but having men's lower use wood and coed hit the 16" ball is not going to go over well. It was stuff like this that caused TC to quit
slowpitch in the first place.
"Never met a bat I didn't like."
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Posts: 2497 (11/04/2009 17:39:44) RMUSSSA State Director |
No offense Terry, but Triple Crown killed Triple Crown. Their last year they did just fine, heck better than fine, until THEY pulled the plug. That said, this
isn't a TC event, it's a Pitchers fundraising event being sanctioned by USSSA and Dave King was good enough to let them use the TC website and the
facilities which are still contracted to TC with the Town.
I think it's going to go over better than you think....sometimes you have to look at softball for what it is Terry.....recreation, Steamboat July 4, a weekend in the mountains with your friends and lots of beer. I didn't set the format but I support it fully and I don't know what the mix of teams will be, but I'll bet you a buck they have no problem selling out at 65 teams and they'll have a waiting list. I don't have any doubts as to what the largest divisions will be but I don't think support of this event overall will be an issue. S
"Those who stay will be champions"
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Posts: 157 (11/04/2009 22:07:28) |
I never had issues with the wood bats when they used them in coed, but everyone else I played with %+%$*%% the whole time.
"Never met a bat I didn't like."
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