12u Westerns

[SSdad]

SoCal Breakers:

If your daughter's team won Western Nationals last year, then don't they get an automatic bid to nationals in Indiana this year?

Only if her and 4 teammates and the coach are still together. Wouldn't be the first time a team qualifies at Westerns and cant keep the team together and lose their berth

[ontheblack]

SoCal Breakers:

If your daughter's team won Western Nationals last year, then don't they get an automatic bid to nationals in Indiana this year?

I believe that enough of that team went on to 14U, so the automatic berth is being used for 14U Nationals in Moline.

[PDad]

SoCal Breakers:

If your daughter's team won Western Nationals last year, then don't they get an automatic bid to nationals in Indiana this year?

Only if her and 4 teammates and the coach are still together. Wouldn't be the first time a team qualifies at Westerns and cant keep the team together and lose their berth

Coach isn't a factor. The berth goes to the team with the majority of players (minimum of 5). If there is a tie between 2 teams, the one with the registered manager gets the berth. See ASA Code Article 106 Definitions for Defending Champion.

[SoCal Breakers]

SoCal Breakers:

If your daughter's team won Western Nationals last year, then don't they get an automatic bid to nationals in Indiana this year?

They are going to Nationals in 14u...Daughter wanted to stay in 12's, which was good for her.

[morgan]

So let's get a list going, since the Spokane website shows 4 teams, including a '94 team (WTF?)

From this thread:
1. So Cal Breakers
2. Firecrakers 98
3. Valley Tribe Vannoy
4. Bombers
5. SD Fusion
6. So Cal Heaters
7. AZ Hotshots (us)

From website:
8. Nemesis 94 (97?)
9. Hi Voltage
10. OC Elite (also on thread)
11. US(A) Athletics 98

Who else is coming? If we have <20 teams and 5 fields, we will finish on what, Thursday?

I'm having trouble contacting anyone up there. E-mails to Burke (TD) says he retired, and Fuzzy hasn't responded.

At least the (new) complex looks nice:
http://www.spokaneparks.org/uploads/par ... omplex.pdf

[dvannoy]

I talked to Fuzzy last night and the latest is....he says the number of teams so far is in the high 20's and they are looking to get around 40 teams or so. Hope it's not all So Cal teams...if it is, they should have had it here in Cali.

Monday
4pm pool play
6pm opening ceremonies
8pm pool play ????

[dvannoy]

Here is the updated list...

MINORS GOLD ’98 ROSETE
NEMISIS 94
VALLEY TRIBE – VANNOY
O C ELITE
U S ATHLETICS 98
REDDING REBELS 98
VISALIA OUTLAWZ
MINORS GOLD ’97 ALVAREZ
SOUTHBAY STARS
SPOKANE CRASH
SALEM SLYDERS
O C BATBUSTERS
PATRIOTS FASTPITCH
VANCOUVER PATRIOTS
SPOKANE DAWGS

The following teams are not paid, but have indicated they will enter

SO CAL WICKED
SAN DIEGO FUSION
SOUTHBAY DIAMOND GIRLS
SO CAL HEATERS
TRI COUNTY SMASH
CAPITAL CITY COMETS
FIRECRACKERS BRASHEAR
EAST COUNTY HOT SHOTS
BIG JOHNS FASTPITCH
KAIKAMAHINE GIRLS FP
LADY SHARKS
SAN JOSE RENEGADES
TEAM SMITH 98
TEAMSMITH 97
CLOVIS ROCKETS – DIAZ
FRESNO FORCE
CLOVIS ROCKETS – DARLING
CENTRAL COAST EXPRESS
BAKERSFIELD SELECT
CA BREEZE
SO CAL DYNASTY
CORONA ANGELS – Martinez
DOUBLE PLAY
SO CAL BREAKERS – IMOTO
ACERS
BOMBERS
HB BREEZE

[morgan]

Thanks for the update VTV. Once again, Heybucket trumps the association on information dissemination. Surprise!

AZ HOTSHOTS will be in Spokane. Just finished up ASA states, ZERO berths handed out, played games in 110+ heat at 3:30pm. At least in prior years, they tried to keep the girls off the field between 1-6 pm.

[SSdad]

Thanks for the update VTV. Once again, Heybucket trumps the association on information dissemination. Surprise!

AZ HOTSHOTS will be in Spokane. Just finished up ASA states, ZERO berths handed out, played games in 110+ heat at 3:30pm. At least in prior years, they tried to keep the girls off the field between 1-6 pm.

Your state tournament had ZERO berths?

[morgan]

Yeah - it's a long story. Gist of it is that most people didn't like AZ states in mid-July (too hot, too late, etc), so AZ ASA moved the state qualifiers to various other weekends in June, but not the state tournament. Of course, that created other conflicts, for us we had already committed to Batbuster BOTW. But you still have to play "STATE" to go to Westerns, so there you go.