Bombers Shootout Tournament

[bombercoach]

I can clear this up for you pretty quickly.....I am not part of any committee and was not told by anyone to tell the Firecrackers not to attend the Exposure Weekend. I made that decision on my own and did so without all of the information about what was going on.....when all of the silliness started during the fall we had a short window to figure out what to do prior to our event. Our only goal when we run that tournament is to give kids as good of an opportunity as possible for college exposure. There was a lot of things going on between teams etc during that time and we absolutely had no problems with any of the teams involved! The decision I made at the time was in the best interest of the event based on the information I had at the time! I acknowledge that by making that decision it took an opportunity for exposure away from those players and that was not right! After the tournament and once I had a chance to get all of the information , I realized I made a mistake and needed to apologize for that mistake. I spoke with Connie personally and let her know that I was wrong and that I had made a mistake! Her teams are welcome to participate in any event that we host and we would be honored to have them. I just wanted to clear up any misunderstandings that might be out there.....I made a mistake and I feel confident that as individuals that run tournaments that we should do our very best to provide opportunities for players and nothing should really every get in the way of that!

Hope everyone has a great 2013 Season!!!

Scott Smith
Texas Bombers

[hitforpower]

I can clear this up for you pretty quickly.....I am not part of any committee and was not told by anyone to tell the Firecrackers not to attend the Exposure Weekend. I made that decision on my own and did so without all of the information about what was going on.....when all of the silliness started during the fall we had a short window to figure out what to do prior to our event. Our only goal when we run that tournament is to give kids as good of an opportunity as possible for college exposure. There was a lot of things going on between teams etc during that time and we absolutely had no problems with any of the teams involved! The decision I made at the time was in the best interest of the event based on the information I had at the time! I acknowledge that by making that decision it took an opportunity for exposure away from those players and that was not right! After the tournament and once I had a chance to get all of the information , I realized I made a mistake and needed to apologize for that mistake. I spoke with Connie personally and let her know that I was wrong and that I had made a mistake! Her teams are welcome to participate in any event that we host and we would be honored to have them. I just wanted to clear up any misunderstandings that might be out there.....I made a mistake and I feel confident that as individuals that run tournaments that we should do our very best to provide opportunities for players and nothing should really every get in the way of that!

Hope everyone has a great 2013 Season!!!

Scott Smith
Texas Bombers

We I'll be damned! A coach that admits he made a mistake and owns up to it! Thanks for clearing things up.

[ag13mom]

Scott and I have worked out all the issues that seemed to arise over the fall. I appreciate him for reaching out and look forward to many years of a high level of competition.

Connie
Texas Firecrackers

[just4fun]

Good job Scott, I will reinstate my request for you to be president.

Second that.

[DonnieS]

Good job Scott, I will reinstate my request for you to be president.

Second that.

Come on guys, go for broke here, go for the highest office in the land, Gov of Texas.

[softballdaddi]

I can clear this up for you pretty quickly.....I am not part of any committee and was not told by anyone to tell the Firecrackers not to attend the Exposure Weekend. I made that decision on my own and did so without all of the information about what was going on.....when all of the silliness started during the fall we had a short window to figure out what to do prior to our event. Our only goal when we run that tournament is to give kids as good of an opportunity as possible for college exposure. There was a lot of things going on between teams etc during that time and we absolutely had no problems with any of the teams involved! The decision I made at the time was in the best interest of the event based on the information I had at the time! I acknowledge that by making that decision it took an opportunity for exposure away from those players and that was not right! After the tournament and once I had a chance to get all of the information , I realized I made a mistake and needed to apologize for that mistake. I spoke with Connie personally and let her know that I was wrong and that I had made a mistake! Her teams are welcome to participate in any event that we host and we would be honored to have them. I just wanted to clear up any misunderstandings that might be out there.....I made a mistake and I feel confident that as individuals that run tournaments that we should do our very best to provide opportunities for players and nothing should really every get in the way of that!

Hope everyone has a great 2013 Season!!!
Scott Smith
Texas Bombers

You should schedule this in the fall and make it a true showcase. This way 16s can play in it. Also, don't agree with PGF on making this a qualifier. Many 14 teams have freshman on their team and can't play in this. Both this and PGF are premier tourneys just wish they can tweak it a bit.

[hitforpower]

Cali teams coming to play....Wow

14U Teams
Aces Express
American Freedom Hodo
Austin Stars P. Garcia
Austin Storm 14U
CC Fire
CC Slammm 99
Corona Angels Barroso
Corona Angels Perez
El Paso Cats
Lil Rebels 99
SA Wildcats 14U
Sneaky Cleats Briggs
South Texas Ballistix
STX KnockOuts
TeamTFS Texas
Texas Blaze Ham
Texas Blaze Lowke
Texas Blaze 14U Navy
Texas Blaze Rodriguez
Texas Bombers Prospects 14U
Texas Bombers 14U STX
Texas Bombers 14U NTX
Texas Bombers 14U NTX-Black
Texas Elite Esparza
Texas Elite Papes
Texas Firecrackers
Texas Force Soliz
Texas Freeze
Texas Fusion Holton
Texas Glory 14U White
Texas Riot Fastpitch
Texas Venom
West Texas Impact 99

[You don't say]

dont get to excited you won't be seeing much from those teams

[hitforpower]

dont get to excited you won't be seeing much from those teams

Why do you say that???

[softballdaddi]

I predict the Cali teams go 1 and 2 in the tournament.

Here is the deal. If you look at the PGF qualifiers, AZ has 3 slots to give. Tournament time comes around we get greater than 20 cali teams and all of the AZ teams here to try and qualify for the 3 slots. The numbers suck.... Most AZ teams have to travel to other states to qualify. We did that last year. We went to texas which had four slots last year. Quess who took the slots, the only 2 AZ teams and 2 Cali teams that went to the tournment. We beat out teams from Kansas, Colorado, Texas and Washington. Another Az team traveled to Minnesota to qualify, which they did. Most AZ teams went to Colorado to qualify which they did. Why do Cali/Az do that? Because it is much easier to qualify in states other than their own. The competition is just to hard within their boundaries......