A note from our friend David Bell in Las Vegas, on this weekend’s Las Vegas Spring Swing tournament:

[Las Vegas, NV] – The time is now for the sixth and possibly final edition of the popular Spring Training event, the 2005 Spring Swing Fastpitch Weekend, April 2-3 in Las Vegas at the Cheyenne Sports Complex on the campus of the Community College of Southern Nevada in North Las Vegas. Eighteen teams total in two divisions, A/B with 8, and C with 10 will battle it out to see who some of the preseason picks are for 2005. For more info, and to view the schedule for early round and pool play action, go to www.eteamz.com/lasvegashitmen/news

Follow the action at www.fastpitchwest.com as I will be calling in scores to Jim Flanagan on a game by game basis. 2004 SSFW Champions, Provo Canyon Blues in the A/B Division are now the Desert Dawgs, and returning C title holders Red Leaf Fastpitch are both looking for their second consecutive championship and looking to join the El Segundo Rounders in the SSFW record book.

Keep swinging,
David Bell
Las Vegas Hitmen, retired.
Home email: VegasFP22@aol.com

Update: 3/30/05: The full schedule of games has been posted. Click here.

Thanks to Jim Williamson (ISC Special Projects Commish and former First VP of NAFA), we are pleased to post a comprehensive schedule for men’s fastpitch tournaments in the Northwest for 2005. The schedule contains complete information on the tournaments, including contact information, entry fees and the like. The schedule is posted to the “Tournaments” section at Fastpitchwest. There’s also a “printer friendly” version attached for those who like hard copy. (be sure to set print to “landscape”, e.g. “file, page setup, landscape”) You will also find individual webpage(s) for many of the Northwest Tournaments listed on the schedule. Click the menu buttons in the “Northwest” Tournaments section. Northwest Schedule 2005

Boatnik Tournament director Troy Terry offers one of the more unique settings for a fastpitch tournament, over the Memorial Day Weekend: Fastpitch and….boat races….and jet boat excursions. All at the river’s edge in scenic Grants Pass, Oregon, about an hour north of the California border. For those that don’t remember, it was a fixture in the late 1980’s. Magna Plating, one of the top “A” teams from So Cal was a regular for several years running. The Rounders’ Mitch Mendenhall was the Most Valuable Pitcher one year, in the days of his youth.
No small operation, the tournament has blocked 60 rooms for fastpitch players on a busy holiday weekend. If you’re thinking about heading north for this one, be sure to plan ahead. For more info, click here.

And speaking of Red Rock, this note from Roy Stout:

St. George, UT
April 30 – May 1
http://www.fastpitchwest.com/redrock.htm

We have added a team from Stillwater, MN. PLEASE – I only have five entry fee’s. We are at 16 teams can go to twenty, The cut off will be at 16 if more teams don’t join us. Also, Joe Eunice is looking for a team to pitch for in the REDROCK – mailto:joee@mala.bc.ca 559-924-2086 or 559-924-2726 ask for the Pitcher

Roy Stout umpire5@verizon.net

Don’t be that 17th team left out!

A call to arms: eScribe: Al’s Fastball List: Pitcher needed Red Rock 2005