Castleknock Softball Club Annual Invitational Blitz 2009

Saturday 18th July 2009, St. Brigids GAA Club, Russell Park, Castleknock

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Castleknock Softball Club incorporating Castleknock Bearcats and Castleknock Wildcats softball teams would like to welcome all teams to our annual tournament.

Coffee and tea will be available throughout the day free of charge.

All teams will be placed in either the Bearcats or Wildcats competitions in consultation with team captains in order to create a fair and balanced playing field. Both tournaments will be played 6-4 co-ed.

With up to 12 teams taking part and a limited number of softball diamonds available it is very important that all games start and finish on time. The first round of games start at 10am sharp.

All games will be 50 mins long with no new innings after 45 mins. Games will begin with a 1:1 count.

We would ask any umpires playing in the tournament to make themselves available to umpire a game when not playing. Otherwise the team batting umpires. In all cases the Umpire's decisions are final.

Lunch break is between 1.00 and 2.00pm. Hot food will be served. There is also a café serving hot and cold food in the garage beside the grounds.

Changing facilities and showers will be available.

As with tradition we are hoping that many of you will join us for a few drinks in the bar and the presentation of our prizes to our 2009 Tournament Champions.

Could we ask all teams to respect that we have the use of a great facility in St. Brigids and keep the grounds free of litter etc.

Finally we hope you all have a great day.

We will be sending a team to this so if you are interested in going let us know as soon as you can.

Update

1. There will be no softball this Saturday. We may try to get Saturdays going again especially in lead up to tournaments, interest permitting.

2. As Wednesdays are finally starting to get going properly with adequate numbers showing, we should try to introduce any possible new players. If anyone know of anyone who may like to join try and get them to come next Wednesday, if we have a few people we can take them aside for first while and ease them in.

3. We have been invited again to Castleknock Invitational tournament in Castleknock, Dublin on Sat July 18th. If you would like to go to this can you let me know soon as you can, thanks.

4. Also August15/16 is the IOST, the big tournament of the summer. This year this will take place in Cork, UCC grounds. So try and free this weekend up if you plan to go, will be looking for numbers soon.

Galway Softball Open Day June 10th

If you're interested in playing softball with us in Galway then come along to our open training session on June 10th. If you don't know what softball is but would like to find out then come along and we'll show you.

June 10th is the open day where we're aiming for as many of the new people that have already expressed an interest to come along and let us show you what its all about. The 10th is just our open day you can start coming to our training sessions at any time, the schedule is on the panel on the right side of this blog.

Softball is the co-ed, slower and more sociably paced version of baseball. A note tho the ball itself is not soft, in fact its quite hard! See more information on softball in Ireland here.

The second (and most important part) of training takes place in the Bierhaus immediately after training every Wednesday