Woke up to sad news, RIP Michelle Dodds, a staple at the fields every summer, she loved playing softball and hanging out at the diamonds. Sending love and hugs to all her family, friends, and teammates, we’ll miss her dearly!
USA Softball umpire clinic schedule
Room for two?
USSSA has officially entered the Alaska softball scene by announcing Brad Peterson as the Slow Pitch State Director for USSSA Alaska. If you are unfamiliar with Brad he is a long-time Alaska player and this summer he will celebrate 20 years of sponsoring at least one team in Anchorage, with his coaching/playing extending well past that. From 2014 through 2022 Brad acted as the USA Softball state player rep, and from 2014 to 2017 he served as Anchorage Sports Softball Director. Brad also spends time umpiring fast pitch and slow pitch every season.
This isn’t the first association USA Softball has shared Alaska with, in 2006 Anchor Town Sports left USA Softball and aligned themselves with the National Softball Association. NSA brought with it some different rules and regulations but Anchor Town was the only Alaska association to adopt them, making it hard to grow their footprint. After the 2009 season Anchor Town switched back to USA Softball.
Brad told us that at this time his primary goal is to help register those teams traveling out to play USSSA tourneys in the lower 48. Leagues were not mentioned, but the potential for an Alaska USSSA tourney has entered Brad’s mind, as always finding officials would be a major obstacle, right behind field usage.
Time seems to slow down a little in Jan/Feb but getting another 10 bats (four far left and six in the box) sure speeds it up for us. We are just over four months away from SuperDraft 11 and this summers bat giveaways are stocked and ready to go!
Working on the ticket/draft/event schedule but expect tickets for SD11 to go on sale in early March.
2023 Alaska tourney schedule is loaded on our website
http://aksports.com/calendar/
2023 Reclass list is now available:
https://www.usasoftballofalaska.com/page/show/5152395-classification
Hard news today, sending love to all of Jarred Tuck’s family, friends, and teammates (most recently LFS, Puffin) … fields won’t be the same this summer, we’re going to be a small part of a big group that will miss him.
Good luck to the Alaskans traveling (and trying to travel, lol) to softball tourneys this weekend!
Congrats to the Hit Squad for winning the Men’s Blood N Guts tourney in Reno (24 teams, triple elim)
Kraken playing in about an hour (games are behind), this is triple elim so lots of games left.
