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Sounds like Elite vs Red Devils will be a great game. Should have stayed to watch. It if had been some place with a beach instead of Montgomery AL I would have. ha
Sounds like Elite vs Red Devils will be a great game. Should have stayed to watch. It if had been some place with a beach instead of Montgomery AL I would have. ha
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They finally updated the brackets - 4 teams in losers bracket are TX Sudden Impact, Miami Stingrays, GC Hurricanes and B'ham Vipers Gill.
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I know a couple of girls on that Germantown team. One has verballed to Arkansas. She is I think the fastest girl I've ever seen in person. Runs home to home in 10.48. That team has a ton of speed, excellent pitching and some power. They have girls from Tennessee, Arkansas and Alabama.
It took them literally all day to update the brackets. No reason to think anyone not there in person would want to know any results, it's only the Nationals.
It occurs to me that these ASA Nationals have turned into a tournament between the South (including some of Texas) and the Midwest. The West from Colorado on over is almost totally unrepresented and the East is a non-factor. If ASA doesn't have some people out at PGF learning how to do things professionally instead of local-yokel, it will soon turn into a regional tournament of teams from within a few hours of the host city.
As long as PGF takes just the top 64 (or so) teams, there is a place for ASA Nationals. But ASA had better start moving to better locations and running the tournaments in a professional manner. You could take the Stingrays staff and they would run ASA Nationals about a thousand times better than what I've witnessed.
ASA Nationals should have the following:
1. Brackets updated immediately at each site and online, along with scores. Team names should be typed on a magnet (or some sort of tag) for the brackets at the sites and not written in chicken scratch. This would take someone at each site texting scores to the people at the other sites and to the web coordinator, which a 10-year-old could do.
2. Official scorekeeper at each field, ideally with live play-by-play, but at least box scores after the game. I imagine ASA would think this is ridiculous, which explains everything.
3. Option to receive text updates for weather and other delays.
4. New sites that offer the kids (and adults) something to do when not playing games and that might not cost an arm and a leg to fly into.
5. Contract with some outfit to televise the finals on cable. If possible, play the finals on a local college field. Not sure if that's still legal for the colleges with the arcane NCAA bylaws.
6. Use good softballs and not the cheapest you can get by with. And have at least 8 balls per game. How absurd to see umpires looking around in vain for a ball during a National tournament.
7. Some sort of relationship with college coaches. At ASA Nationals, college coaches are on their own, from hotels to food and beverage at the fields to trying to figure out who is playing when and where as brackets aren't updated.
8. A schedule that makes sense for teams and is not designed solely to drain them of money. Right now it's one game Monday, one Tuesday, one Wednesday, one or two Thursday, and up to five on Friday. I think having to be there for up to eight days if you make the last day is one of the reasons the PGF people started their own tournament.
I'm sure others could come up with more things. Whether ASA will change with the times is another matter.
It took them literally all day to update the brackets. No reason to think anyone not there in person would want to know any results, it's only the Nationals.
It occurs to me that these ASA Nationals have turned into a tournament between the South (including some of Texas) and the Midwest. The West from Colorado on over is almost totally unrepresented and the East is a non-factor. If ASA doesn't have some people out at PGF learning how to do things professionally instead of local-yokel, it will soon turn into a regional tournament of teams from within a few hours of the host city.
As long as PGF takes just the top 64 (or so) teams, there is a place for ASA Nationals. But ASA had better start moving to better locations and running the tournaments in a professional manner. You could take the Stingrays staff and they would run ASA Nationals about a thousand times better than what I've witnessed.
ASA Nationals should have the following:
1. Brackets updated immediately at each site and online, along with scores. Team names should be typed on a magnet (or some sort of tag) for the brackets at the sites and not written in chicken scratch. This would take someone at each site texting scores to the people at the other sites and to the web coordinator, which a 10-year-old could do.
2. Official scorekeeper at each field, ideally with live play-by-play, but at least box scores after the game. I imagine ASA would think this is ridiculous, which explains everything.
3. Option to receive text updates for weather and other delays.
4. New sites that offer the kids (and adults) something to do when not playing games and that might not cost an arm and a leg to fly into.
5. Contract with some outfit to televise the finals on cable. If possible, play the finals on a local college field. Not sure if that's still legal for the colleges with the arcane NCAA bylaws.
6. Use good softballs and not the cheapest you can get by with. And have at least 8 balls per game. How absurd to see umpires looking around in vain for a ball during a National tournament.
7. Some sort of relationship with college coaches. At ASA Nationals, college coaches are on their own, from hotels to food and beverage at the fields to trying to figure out who is playing when and where as brackets aren't updated.
8. A schedule that makes sense for teams and is not designed solely to drain them of money. Right now it's one game Monday, one Tuesday, one Wednesday, one or two Thursday, and up to five on Friday. I think having to be there for up to eight days if you make the last day is one of the reasons the PGF people started their own tournament.
I'm sure others could come up with more things. Whether ASA will change with the times is another matter.
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Valley Extreme lost late friday night to the wisconsin Firebirds. After an ugly loss to Germantown when nothing seem to go right these girls pulled it together and made a nice run through some excellent competition. They jumped out 1-0 on the firebirds, then a collision at home plate sent our center fielder to the hospital and we just couldnt put it together after that and lost 3-1. I want to say thanks to the Laser gold girls who were asking and praying for her, you girls are a class act! After numerous tests were run she is doing fine now and will be home in her own bed sometime today hopefully. As we were playing each game (almost all back to back) on friday, lasers gold, lasers silver and Ohio Ice were playing on adjacent fields for some of those games showing all that these Ohio teams have alot of talent and were having some pretty good showings in Alabama. It did **** that the 1st round of elimination had Valley Extreme vs Wizards Elite, Lasers Silver vs Outlaws and Ohio Ice vs Classics! As for me Im very proud of my girls accomplishments this year and all of these teams from Ohio just making it to the show. Heat, Doom, Outlaws, Wizards, Express, Classics and Wolfpack, Kudos to all of you!
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Tulsa Elite over Germantown 5-1 for the Championship! Congrats to both Extremely talented teams.
