Any award for second place? Nice tournament, nice fields. Glad to get over there and get in some games.
Thank you for the nice comments.
Being we give a 1st Place prize of Uniforms valued at $600.00 dollars...financially I can't give out a 2nd Place prize.
I had coaches ask me if I was going to do this next year ( as I said it would be the last year of it )... and if the teams want it.. I don't mind having it for them.
I hope in the Fall of 2011, that I can get Frisch's Big Boy Restaurants to come onboard as a corporate sponsor... and then maybe I can give a 2nd Place prize such as "hoodies".
That would be two major prizes in a four team event.
I'm working at it for the girls. I just LOVE this tournament. I really do. IF I had one tournament all year long.. this would be the one I would do followed by the one up North where I can take the players to the Akron Racers game and feed them and the winners take home championship rings. I just LOVE this stuff personally.
This event is about playing ball and who has the stamina to get it done being they are playing three games in a row. This is especially difficult as a 10u team as you got to have pitching . Coach Matt of the Ohio Classic 10u team, after the Chillicothe event in 2008, said " You got to have pitchers to come to your event and especially with full 7 innings being played" and laughed. I laughed as well and agreed. You do have to have pitching playing three in a row. It's an opportunity for four (4) coaches to see what they have, what can be worked on in the winter ( including stamina for those Sunday other tournament games in 2011) and playing three in a row gives the coaches that opportunity.
Glad to hear everyone had a good time and the weather was great. I have been lucky the past four years on this third weekend of October when it came to weather ... ** knocking on wood ** just frost a couple times on one day or the other.. but it went away by 10 am game time. So, weather wise.. it has been good weather every year for the girls.