St. Patrick′s Day NIT

St. Patrick's Day NIT
March 13-14, 2010
8U (cp) - 9U - 10U - 11U - 12U - 13U - 14U
Deadline to enter & pay is Feb 28th
Entry Fee $425.00

3 Game Guarantee
Awards - (min 8 teams per bracket)
Individual Awards 1st and 2nd place
Team trophies 1-4th Place

NO ADDITIONAL UMPIRES, PARKING OR GATE FEES

MAPS & DIRECTIONS

HOTEL FLYER & INFORMATION
Be sure to ask for the "St. Patrick's Day Tournament Group Rate."

Photographer from Tournament
www.paparazzisports.photostockplus.com

T-Shirts from Tournament
http://www.finedesignsinc.com/home.php

3/10/10 Email Update

All,

MAPS - As promised, attached are the maps and directions to the fields for this weekend’s event. I’ve been waiting on a field layout from Los Lunas Parks and Recreation but it didn’t show up so the attachment doesn’t show the exact layout of the fields but it will get you to the fields and they are clearly marked. I’ll update when they send the layout.

MANAGERS MEETING - There is a managers meeting Friday night (3/12/2010) at the host hotel – Los Lunas Inns and Suites (1711 West Main St. in Los Lunas) at 7pm. Please have one representative for each team at this meeting. This is where the official brackets will be distributed, review birth certificates and playing / park rules will be discussed. This will be the only opportunity to clarify playing rules and tournament policies – I won’t be able to give individual managers meeting the morning of the event. If you can’t have a representative at the meeting, be sure to arrive at the tournament headquarters 1 hour prior to your game time to pick up the official brackets, sign your roster and review birth certificates. Umpires will not start your game until your team has checked in.

BASEBALLS – Each team will be required to provide 2 new USSSA stamped game balls at the pre-game umpire meeting for each contest. Those balls do not have to be purchased through me but I will have Worth baseballs (leather) available at the managers meeting and at the tournament HQ - $40.00 per dozen.

ROSTERS – Be sure to update your roster on the national USSSA web site no later than 3pm on Friday (March 12^th). There will be NO additions to any team’s roster once the first pitch of their first game has been thrown.

BAT BAG AWARDS – I was informed (via email) today that the bat bag awards for this event will not be shipped from Worth until March 16^th. Grrrr. I had ordered them on Feb 23^rd and was assured the awards would be here in time. I had originally ordered all black so it would work with any team color scheme. The up-side to this situation is now I will be requiring Worth ship the colors that best fit the teams who earn the bags instead of plain black. Bottom line – the individual awards earned, by the placing teams, will be shipped directly to them as soon as they arrive from Worth. Please pass this information on to your team so they understand the complication.

Worth WOBAG

36” Long, 13” Wide, 10” Tall
Exclusive Soft-Pocket design for storing equipment
600 x 600 D polyester material
Holds 6 bats: 3 in bottom, 3 in holster
Total of 5 compartments
Wet pocket ventilation system
Padded shoulder strap
Heavy duty fence clips for hanging
Available in Black, Navy Purple, Royal, and Scarlet

Good luck and I’ll see you at the fields.

Thank you,

Dana

Dana Gilmer
AAD President
USSSA Area Director

PO Box 67275
Albuquerque, NM 87193
505-417-1810

Local site - www.abqusssa.com
State site - www.usssabaseballnewmexico.com
National Site - www.usssa.com

2/25/10 Email Update

Coaches,

Contained in this email -

Update on the March 13-14th USSSA NIT
USSSA Team Registrations
Tournament status and deadline for payment
Roster requirements
Birth Certificates
Host Hotels & Maps
Brackets
Baseballs
Manager Meeting
Tournament Rules
Facilities
Current List of Team in the Tournament

UPDATE AND TOURNAMENT STATUS - The deadline for the NIT is upon us and currently we have 46 paid or reserved teams in 5 different age divisions - it doesn't look like the 8u (cp) or 9u divisions are going to make. The teams are listed on the bottom of this email. If you are registered but have not made your team payment for the tournament, you must do so by March 1 – that’s this coming Monday. If I have your team listed as confirmed and you are not in please let me know ASAP so I am publishing accurate projections.

If you have not made your final tournament payment, you have four options to retain your team’s spot in the tournament:

1. Pay Pal – If you don’t have the cash or available balance in the team checking account you will need to make a credit card payment at www.paypal.com no later than March 1^st - Payable to abqusssa@aol.com. Whatever size payment you make be sure to add 3% to the total. Ergo – if your team owes $425.00, you would pay $439.00. This will ensure you've paid the event cost and covered the cost for using Pay Pal.

2. Mail (post marked by March 1st) the $425.00 payment to:

ABQ USSSA

PO Box 67275

Albuquerque, NM 87193

If you are a local team, meet me Sunday (Feb 28^st) at 5:00pm in the Bank of America parking lot at the SE corner of Eagle Ranch Road and Coors. (On Coors just south of Paseo del Norte) If you need to leave a post dated check (for no later than March 10^th), you can do so at that time.
Use the online payment option on the USSSA national web site - the online payment will total $440.00

Email me if you will be having trouble meeting this deadline so I know not to give your spot away and you are still working on the payment.

USSSA Team Registration - All teams must be USSSA registered for the 2010 USSSA year. A few of the teams listed haven't registered with USSSA yet and until they are registered the national web site won't let me put them in the bracket. Please take care of that ASAP. The registration will be good through July 31st of this year and you won't have to do that again until August 1st

ROSTER REQUIREMENTS – All teams must have a roster completed on their team’s webpage at www.usssa.com prior to March 4th. After that time I will be drawing the brackets for the tournament. There were a couple of teams that had not loaded their roster as of the date of this email. Please be aware that I cannot pull the team into the bracket until a minimum of 9 players are listed on the roster. Any team that fails to enter the roster can be removed from the bracket and replaced with a team on the waiting list.

BIRTH CERTIFICATES – At the managers meeting on March 12^h, each team will be required to submit photo copies (not originals) of the members of the team. If you can't make the managers meeting please present those birth certificates prior to your first game at the tournament headquarters

HOST HOTELS and MAPS – The overall host hotel for the tournament is the Los Lunas Inns & Suites – 505-865-5100. On our local web site is a list of the hotels contracted for this event. Please visit this link and be sure to request the St. Patrick's USSSA Baseball NIT rate when contacting the hotels.

BRACKETS (unofficial)– Will be emailed out no later than Sunday March 7th at around 8PM (you will be automatically emailed by the national USSSA web site when they are ready). Please note – the USSSA system doesn't have the ability of posting a consolation bracket, only the championship bracket will show online. Official brackets will be distributed at the managers meeting. I attempt to provide every out of town team as late a start on Saturday as possible but if you teams participation in the event is contingent upon having a pm 1^st game on Saturday you need to let me know so I can remove you from the bracket if I am unable to accommodate the request.

The projected formats and breakdown for each division -

10u – 7 teams (at this time - 2 more possible) – 2 pool games and a single elimination championship bracket for all teams - 5 games possible. With only one AAA team in this division (at this time) all teams will be combined into one bracket.

11u – 8 teams (at this time - 1 more possible) – 2 pool games and single elimination championship bracket for all teams - 5 games possible. All teams are either AAA or AA in this division (at this time) so all teams will be combined into one bracket.

12u – 13 teams (at this time - 2 more possible) – With one Major team, three AAA teams and nine AA teams the AAA and Major teams will be mixed into the pools so teams can play teams they don't normally play. Once the pool play is over the AAA and Major teams will be separated from the AA teams into two single elimination brackets. Four possible games for the AAA/Major teams and six possible games for the AA teams.

13u -11 teams – 2 pool games for each team. With five AAA teams and six AA teams the AAA teams will be mixed into the pools so teams can play teams they don't normally play. Once the pool play is over the AAA teams will be separated from the AA teams into two single elimination brackets. Five possible games for the AAA teams and five possible games for the AA teams.

14u – 6 teams (at this time - 2 more possible) – 2 pool games for each team and a single elimination bracket for all teams - 5 games possible. With one AAA team and one Major team in this division (at this time) all teams will be combined into one bracket.

BASEBALLS - Teams will provide their own game balls for the tournament. The baseballs must be USSSA stamped. I'll have leather USSSA baseballs at the tournament if you need to purchase them.

MANAGERS MEETING – Do not forget the managers meeting on Friday March 12^th – 7PM at the Los Lunas Inns & Suites - 1711 West Main St in Los Lunas. Please have one representative from your team in attendance – remember this is a World Championship Qualifier and it is important to have all participants on the same page regarding rules and conditions of participation.

TOURNAMENT RULES – The tournament rules will be directly from the USSSA rule book. There will not be any local rules. We will pattern the tournament rules after the accepted and standard rules employed by the NM State USSSA Office. The official tournament rules will be emailed out along with the brackets

FACILITIES - Initially this event was scheduled for Rio Rancho but field availability and cost mandated the event be moved to Los Lunas and Belen. So, if you made hotel reservations in Rio Rancho or west Albuquerque you might want to re-think that and move your hotel reservations. As of this moment the field breakdowns for the different age divisions are:

10u – Enchantment and Eagle complex's

11u – Eagle complex

12u – Enchantment and Eagle complex's

13u – Los Lunas Sports Complex & Fernandez field

14u – Los Lunas / Belen fields

I want to assure all the teams that every attempt has been made to acquire fields in the closest proximity to each other but as most of the teams from the central NM area are aware we are very facilities “challenged”. With the limited facility resources at the disposal of the tournament there are a couple of fields whose base distances may not be “by the book”. The NM USSSA State Director’s office is aware of the situation and realizes that every attempt to modify the bases and pitching distances to mirror the rule book has been made. While this is not the desired situation, the teams involved will be playing one the same field during those games and no team gains an advantage.

MAPS – Field locations will be posted on the local web site – www.abqusssa.com after March 1st.

2010 USSSB Baseball Bylaws

TOURNAMENT RULES – The foundation of the tournament rules will be directly from the USSSA rule book. We will pattern the tournament rules after the accepted and standard rules employed by the NM State USSSA Office. The official tournament rules will be emailed out along with the brackets. Additional clarification and explanation will be done at the managers meeting. Overall USSSA rules can be found and downloaded from the USSSA web site at

AWARDS – The awards breakdown for the different divisions are as follows.

Divisions with less than 8 teams in the single elimination bracket -

1^st, 2^{nd, and}3^rd* place team trophies

Individual awards for 1^st place (Bat Bags or comparable awards)

10 All Tournament Awards (5 to 1^st place team, 3-2^nd place, 2-3^rd place) -

1-MVP Award

Divisions with 8 or more teams in the single elimination bracket -

1^st, 2^nd,3^rd* and 4th* place team trophies

Individual awards for 1^st and 2^nd place team members (Bat Bags or comparable)

10 All Tournament Awards (5 to 1^st place team, 3-2^nd place, 2-3^rd place) -

1-MVP Award (to member of 1^st place team) –

* 3^rd and 4th place team trophies will be awarded to the team (in the elimination bracket) that advances to the latest game number of the elimination bracket will be placed ahead of the team eliminated in the earlier game number unless the teams played each other in Pool Play, in which case the winner of the pool play game will be placed ahead of the loser of that pool game.

Thank you again for your support of our youth and USSSA Baseball - I look forward to a very exciting and rewarding tournament. See you at the managers meeting and email me if you have any questions.

CURRENT TEAM LIST –


10 AA	Dodgers - LC NM
10	AA	Hawks - Abq NM
10	AA	JAXX - Abq NM
10	AAA	Kong - EP Tx
10	AA	Raptors - Abq NM
10	AA	Sundevils - LC NM
10	AA	Thunder - Abq NM
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11	AA	Cavemen - Carlsbad NM
11	AA	Dukes - Abq NM
11	AA	Diamond Jaxx - Abq NM
11	AAA	Lookouts - El lPaso Tx
11	AA	Hurricane - Abq NM
11	AA	Outlaws - Abq NM
11	AA	Reds - Farm NM
11	AA	Storm - RR NM
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12	AA	Bombers - Abq NM
12	AAA	Bulldogs - Abq NM
12	AA	Cannons - RR NM
12	AA	Dirt Bags - Abq NM
12	Maj	Dirt Bags - Farm. NM
12	AA	Dogmen - Abq NM
12	AAA	N M Poison - Abq
12	AAA	Predators - Abq NM
12	AA	Hawks - Abq -NM
12	AA	Invasion - Roswell NM
12	AA	Sting Rays - Belen NM
12	AA	Vipers - Los Lunas NM
12	AAA	Volcanoes - Abq NM
12	AA	Young Guns - Farm NM
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13	AAA	Assault - Abq NM
13	AA	Bulldogs - Bloomfield NM
13	AA	Diablos - Abq NM
13	AAA	Diablos - El Paso TX
13	AA	Drillers - Carlsbad NM
13	AA	Express - Moriarty NM
13	AAA	NM Roadrunners - Farm NM
13	AAA	Rattlers - RR NM
13	AA	Rhinos - Abq NM
13	AA	Showtime - Abq NM
13	AAA	YANKEES - EP Tx
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14	AA	Bounty Hunters- Abq NM
14	AAA	Cannons - RR NM
14	Maj	Flatlanders - Lubbock TX
14	AA	Lobo - Abq NM
14	AA	Sartans - Abq NM
14	AA	Volcanoes - Abq NM
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Thanks,

Dana

Dana Gilmer
AAD President
USSSA Area Director

PO Box 67275
Albuquerque, NM 87193
505-417-1810

Local site - www.abqusssa.com
State site - www.usssabaseballnewmexico.com
National Site - www.usssa.com