I'm glad to hear we have an interest in at least one team qualifying for the SLSB tournament in Missoula this year. I was fortunate to have worked that tournament and the team that represented Washington had a great experience. That team advanced without play from state if my facts are correct. Unfortunately in our area we don't see an interest until the high school season tryouts are over. This usually takes place around the first week of March. Some programs won't even have a tryout due to the lack of players availability. I personally talked with a couple of programs in an effort to gather a combined team and thought there might be an interest. No team was chartered in the end so I came up short. So far I have had no one contact me about the possibility of chartering a team or asking for contact information from the Portland or surrounding areas for competition. My answer for you as of now is we will have to wait and see. Darrin Leggett WA D4 Umpire Consultant State Softball UIC On Tue, Jan 7, 2025 at 11:09 PM Brian Marantz via Wadas < wadas@lists.rodeonetworks.com> wrote:
Hi,
WA D8 is very close to being able to assemble a Senior Softball team. RUG Little League has their SB JR team that made it to the Championship game at the Tucson Regionals that basically wants to come back as a Senior Softball team.
I know that a Softball team at this level is rare. There is no minimum regular season game play requirement (similar to Senior Baseball). When no other teams at District exist, that All Star Tournament Team will get a bye to State, and in some cases in the past, has gotten a bye straight to Regionals.
Q for the WA DA’s is this: Do any of you have any leagues in your Districts that may have a Senior Softball team as well? I’m not looking to game the system here, but rather to find out if there are other Senior Softball teams in WA State teams that these girls can play a few games against.
Thanks
Brian Marantz
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