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Resmondo wins Last Chance/Teams head to Nationals
By
Don Bowman
Resmondo Sod (
Finishing a strong
third place was John Daniel’s Long Haul Phonemaster/Miken
club (
The tourney MVP was Resmondo’s Vince Bisbee, while Minnesotans Geno Buck and Anthony Dress (both from Long Haul), earned
all-tournament honors as well! Contactor’s Capital had their best tournament
outing of the season, going 4-2 in the major NIT, which featured the best teams
in the land!
An estimated 101 teams
from around the state will be participating in national/world softball
tournament around the country, beginning Labor Day weekend!
And as you can
guess, over 350 bartenders statewide will be out of work come August 30, until
the players return home.
Redwood
wins State Open title
Congratulations to
Redwood Softball who won the men’s
Rockets
take Women’s State crown
Easton/Hooters/Rockets
captured the USSSA Women’s Open State Championship in early August. Following
the Rockets were the MN Thunderboltz, Minnesota Ice,
Mad Jacks and Macken/Excel.
Zenk signs with Jean Shoppe
Ryan Zenk, who played for the USSSA Class ‘B” world champs
Showcase last season, was signed as a defensive specialist for the highly-ranked
Jean Shoppe Softball club out of the south.
Get on
the bus
Big news in the
Minnesota Senior softball circuit! Several movers and shakers in the men’s
senior softball community are forming a committee to purchase a team bus,
EXCLUSIVELY for senior teams to share for national tourney travels!
With the high costs
of airline travel, the committee is soliciting sponsors for this exciting
venture. Sponsors and donors will be identified with advertising on the bus,
and all endorsements will be tax deductible!
This is a GREAT
idea, as these senior teams are great ambassadors of the community, and have
brought home more than 15 national and world championships state wide, in the
last five years alone!
For information,
please call committee chairman Jerry Otto Sr., at 651-483-3368, for this great
cause!
The USSSA co-rec class ‘D’ state tournament results are in, and this is the news you have been waiting for.
Champions: MN Monitoring. Bridesmaids: Kelly
Rochester
to host ASA Open State
The WSL/Miken Midwest Championships and ASA Womens’s
Open State Tournament will be held August 23 (Saturday only) at
Give
to the Special Olympics
Local softball promotor Bill (Supreme Sports) Dehkes
is spearheading a GREAT fundraising effort for the Special Olympics. You will want
to be a part of it! On Sept. 12-13, the
World’s Largest Truck Convoy, Special Oympics
fundraiser, takes place in Shakopee! A great spectacle, a lot of fun and it’s
all tax deductible! The event features not only the convoy, but a barbecue,
live music and great door prizes! For more information, go to
specialolympicsminnesota.org or call Kathy at 612-604-1272.
Hoffman
wins Major’s D tournament
In a men’s ‘D’
tournament sponsored by Major’s in the Twin Cities last weekend, the top four
were Hoffman, Tina Kane, Mayhem and Majors in that order. No details if
slumping Steve Heifort of Hoffman Softball,
got a hit or not.
Fleet Fleet takes Huff ‘N Puff
Fleet Fleet topped Stingy Lingy in the
finals of the Huff ‘N Puff carnival circus tour tournament August 10 in
What made the
tourney a little more exciting this year, is that the tournament got busted for
being unsanctioned, and the umpires had to disrobe on site, and could not wear
their sanctioned umpire uniforms for liability purposes! One umpire spotted had
to officiate his Friday game wearing a “Larry’s Live Bait” t-shirt and some very worn white compression shorts. The sight was NOT
pretty!
Precision
Tree wins in kittenball
Precision Tree won the their 10th consecutive co-rec kittenball championship
(16"), at the 2008 Canadian Day’s celebration in Little Canada two weeks
ago. The team was bolstered by several players from the highly-ranked Madjack’s women’s class “B” powerhouse. Even Chad Koll had a couple of hits in the thrilling championship win
over highly-touted Action Imprints of Little Canada.