I emailed all the coaches at 6:00 am this morning and again at about 11:00 am. We also called all the coaches that had 8am games and 930am games at 6am trying to get ahold of them before they left. When I arrived at the fields at 5:50am this morning and met with the park crews that were at the park at 3:30 am trying to get them ready they explained to me that it rained from 1:30 am thru 4:00 am straight without stoping. I tried walking on the fields and sunk in about 5-6 inches along with major standing water on the infields. I asked the park personell if maybe we could get on them about noon? and they explained to me "no possible way" I personally live 30 minutes south of this park and did not get much rain at all and couldn't believe them, which is why I personally drove their myself at 5:15am. Then before we got the rain again this afternoon at about 2:00 the entire infields were still complete mud holes.
I took pictures of the fields for this very reason...so if you want to see them, please email me at
bbelsole@zoominternet.net and I will send them to you.
As for placement of the teams, I only did this to be able to give out the very nice trophies that we purchased. Otherwise I completely agree that it basically means nothing!!!
I wanted nothing more than to get the games in!! I even offered all the coaches to play next weekend. Not sure what else can be done?
If anyone wants to talk more about it please call me anytime 440-670-2788
Brent