The inaugural Wood Bat World Series is set to get underway Saturday morning at East Mapleton in Boulder with a field of 7 teams. The Mountain States Rebels will square off with Cedar Ridge of Roosevelt,Utah at 9:00 on Field 3 while the Boulder Blaze will face the Boulder All-Stars on field 2. The Denver Dragons will play the winner of the Blaze/All Star game at 11:00 on field 2 while the Fort Collins Warriors will face Coast to Coast of Boulder on field 3.
Rocky Mountain Fastpitch would like to thank everyone involved in getting this first year tourney off of the ground. Lenore Knox and Teri Olander with the City of Boulder have been phenomenal in assisting with fields and logistics. Special thanks to the following award
sponsors:
Championship Jackets
Fremont Motors of Wyoming Dean Parker, Brown and Gold Outlet Laramie,Wyoming
Runner Up Jackets
The Dave Parker Family
3rd Place T-Shirts
Universal Athletic Gillette,Wyoming
All-American Awards
Direct Sporting Goods, Lynn and Linda Martin
MVP Trophy Bats
Phoenix Bat Company
Without the generous support of the above sponsors, it would have been very difficult to get this tournament going. I would like to say thank you to everyone involved in making the inaugural year of the Rocky Mountain Fastpitch Association a huge success. In particular, I want to thank Randy Davenport, Wes Nielsen,Todd Thompson and Marty McKinney in helping make the national tournament a success as well as the first season of the Rocky Mountain Travel League.
Thank You,
Dave Parker
Rocky Mountain Fastpitch Association
Lafayette,Colorado
303-475-8142
wyofastpitch@wyoming.com
Editor’s note: For an interesting, timely newspaper story on the wood vs. aluminum debate, click here.