Terrible field location at Firecrackers MDC

[rhinorenegade]

As much money as the Firecracker organization stand to make on this past weekends Mother's Day Classic you'd think that they could have found a better park for Sunday bracket play for the 14U division than Independence Park in Downey. You had games going on Indy fields #1 and #2 at the same time, the fields were so close together that the center fielders on both fields were literally back to back with each other, maybe 10'-20' feet apart. You had long balls from Indy #1 rolling and ending up on the infield of Indy #2, causing a stoppage in play while a player chased down a long ball. You also had had balls hit that would end up rolling into spectators or other teams warming up that resulted in a ground rule double. IMO, the tournament directors should have looked into renting the fields across the street at Discovery Park for 14U bracket play or, you schedule the 10U division to play on Sunday on the smaller fields at Independence Park. Also, with teams paying $500.00 to play in this tournament, you'd think that the tournament directors could have supplied game balls instead of teams providing their own. Other than those 2 complaints, it was a good tournament with great competition and the umpires did a nice job.