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: 345 (11/05/2009 09:05:43) |
Does this mean that Coed is swing your own bat at the bigger balls?
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Posts: 2498 (11/05/2009 11:38:16) RMUSSSA State Director |
yes
"Those who stay will be champions"
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Posts: 346 (11/05/2009 12:21:02) |
Thanks Scott. Kinda like the format, if you are going for a good time use wood. If you are going to be competitive, play upper. As far as the coed, think it
is kinda cool that guys get to experience the same 'issue' of hitting a different ball size when playing. Normally, we are always hitting the 12in
ball and women are forced to adapt between the 11 and 12. Now, we get to see the difference in moving between ball sizes.
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Posts: 2499 (11/05/2009 13:23:06) RMUSSSA State Director |
I grew up on 16" big ball no glove (well that and unlimited arc) but haven't played it since college intramurals. One of the things it allows for is
women in places they don't normally want to play- on the hill and at 3B for instance. It's an interesting format Patty came up with and I'm glad
she provided a little of everything for those who might be interested in going up.
"Those who stay will be champions"
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