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We were very disappointed in GAP$$ this year. We played at Arrowhead and played every single game on the same field without fences (same no fence complaints were put on OFC by many teams last year)...all the money that this tournament pulls in and they can't put up temporary fences? The outfield was a valley type slope that went into large pine trees lining backyards. The umpires were some of the WORST we have ever seen!!! One game they would call ground rule double if a hit ball rolled under the pine trees and the next game (same set of umpires) said well it would have been a home run so just dig the ball out and play it. REALLY!?!?! During another game a runner on 3rd base ran into the grass by the dugout fence, where on deck batter warm ups and is clearly more than 3 feet out of the baseline, and the umpire said the runner can establish her own base path! In another game, a ball was hit into the valley and the batter missed second base by a mile. Our short stop made a live appeal and the field umpire called her safe by just putting his arms out. The coach not realizing that the short stop made the live appeal told our pitcher to throw to second and make an appeal and again the field ump put his arms out to indicate 'safe'. After the game he came over to our coaches and said "Yes the batter clearly missed second base and I saw it but your short stop did not call out the batters number when she made the appeal". WOW!!! Then to cancel so many Sunday games instead of making some sort of attempt to get games played with shortened times...VERY disappointed!!!