Surf City Summer Showcase

[softballmafia]

Just was on the web site for both tournaments......c cup brackets posted with scores/up to date and surfcity nothing. Bollinger does a great job and spends the money we give him well for the girls....great run tournament and the oppisite surf city its all about the buck and the worst conditions.....like I said surfcity boys need to learn from the man at c cup.And I will give ASA a kudos for a great job as well....personel at every field answering your questions and monitoring all the games.

[just_adad]

Surf City Tourneys field preperations suck (always has been this way). They can give you several reasons why they don't prep fields, each of them unexcusable.

[DDG]

Surf City Tourneys field preperations suck (always has been this way). They can give you several reasons why they don't prep fields, each of them unexcusable.

There is only one real reason - they don't want to spend the money. Too bad, A great facility. But it doesn't mater if no one takes care if the fields.

C-Cup was great. Lots of schools. Good fields that are easy to get to. Good competition. I felt like they actually care about their customers.

[OSD]

Surf City 16U in Chino Hills had fields drug, rechalked and even watered between games by City park staff. Lots of Scouts as well and from some excellent Universities! Now if only they could have had temp. fences up to eliminate those gapper HR's and prevent Outfielders from playing the big hitters at 220ft. and turning their "should be" legit HR's into a fly out! Maybe next year? Please!

[softballmafia]

Fences would take away from the profits at surfcity....c cup had temporary fences brought in for every field.....like I said great job at c cup

[Sball__22]

Today 16U
Angels Lock beat OCBB Black
CM Cobras beat SD Renegades
SD Rowdies beat Victory USA
So Cal Pumas beat Cent. Cal Dirt Dawgs
Teamsmith beat SJ Sting
Choppers beat Irvine Sting
SD Rowdies beat Choppers

[jmo]

Surf City Tourneys field preperations suck (always has been this way). They can give you several reasons why they don't prep fields, each of them unexcusable.

Not sure what fields you were at but at the main complex in HB, from what I experienced, the fields were dragged and rechalked between every other game and some between every game. The city maintenance handles it.

And there were plenty of coaches on Friday and Saturday at the fields in HB and at Chino Hills 16U division. Can't say about other locations. I spent Wednesday and Thursday at CC and saw all the same schools on Friday an Saturday at Surf City in HB.

[Uncle Rico]

If you look hard enough you find something to complain about at any tournament. The 16u tourney in Chino Hills was on time, fields prepped every game, good umps, and a good snack bar, but most importantly there were college coaches there. Does the fact that there were no outfield fences and that ground balls rolled for miles effect the recruiting? No. It was a showcase tourney and not a National championship tourney, field prep and updated website is not that big of a deal.

[PDad]

Did they play it out as a tournament or was it showcase format?

They had 5 brackets - one for each pool finish (e.g. 1st, 2nd, etc.). They didn't have enough fields in 16u to schedule the final game in each bracket.

Does anyone else find it odd the same guys that oppose having pool games count in championship play for exposure reasons, have them count in showcases?

[dittoz]

Welllll.... ummm... errrr....

It was a Showcase in a tournament format (?)

There was bracket play but not everyone was eliminated. Seed played seed which resulted in a few extra games for some. Unfortunately, this caused some of the far away teams to be playing until 6 or 7 in the evening with the 7-8 hr drive home after. Not too many (read: NO) colleges were represented much past about 3pm.

Good to see some major colleges represented out there though. Even saw Lisa Fernandez poking around The late drive home was rough but life goes on...