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2006 SOFTBALL REGISTRATION
REGISTRATION WILL BEGIN MARCH 1 st. AT THE GFSA OFFICE AT THE COMPLEX
OFFICE HOURS WILL BE 3PM TO 6PM MONDAY THRU FRIDAY
LAST YEARS TEAMS WILL RECEIVE A FORM IN THE MAIL
MAJOR SPONSORS WILL HAVE FORMS AT THEIR BUSINESSES
REGISTRATION FEES ARE $400.00 PER TEAM DUE AT THE TIME OF SIGN-UP.
TEAM PLAYER FEES OF $280.00 WILL BE DUE MAY 1ST WHEN YOU PICK UP
YOUR SCHEDULES. $100.00 OF THE PLAYER FEE CAN BE REFUNDED IF YOUR
TEAM PUTS IN 8 HOURS OF WORK OUT AT THE COMPLEX. THERE WILL BE
SPECIFIC WORK DETAILS THAT YOUR TEAM CAN SIGN UP FOR - THESE ARE
LISTED AT THE GFSA OFFICE OUT AT THE COMPLEX. ALONG WITH YOUR
TEAM PLAYER FEE YOUR TEAM WILL BE ENTITLED TO A FREE TOURNAMENT.
QUESTIONS? CALL TIM AT 231-4297
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Cascade Electric-State Champs
Congratulations to Cascade Electric for winning the Men’s +35 D State Championship, and a shout out goes to the City Bar who placed second. Great job! Now let’s keep this train rolling this weekend!
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LETTER TO ASSOCIATION MEMBERS
For GFSA updates and information about player assessment, work days. click on Letter to association members.
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GFSA UPDATES
The latest board meeting minutes have been posted.
If you’re looking for a team to play on, or have a tournament that you would like on our site. We have some website forms that you can quickly and painlessly fill out. All of your information will then be placed on our website.
Also, if you are a team manager for a Great Falls Softball team we have a form for you to fill out. This will allow you to get email information about GFSA happenings.
These forms can be located in the menu bar on the left hand side.
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Great Falls sweeps all CO-ED divisions in state. Congrats to all CO-ED teams that took a state championship in CO-ED last weekend.
State B Champions TJ’s Dust Devils
State C Champions TJ’s
State D Champions The Sting Chicken Hawks
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Letter from Parks & Rec Director
For information about the player assesment fee click on /gfsa/files/Letter From Parks & Rec Director.pdf.
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NEW DIVISION IN SENIOR MENS
THIS YEAR THE STATE HAS GONE BACK TO +40 DIVISION BUT HAS ADDED A
+50 DIVISION FOR MEN.
WE ARE HOPING TO GET INCREASED INTEREST IN THE +50
+35 AND +50 TEAMS WILL PLAY LEAGUE ON MONDAY NIGHTS
+40 TEAMS WILL PLAY LEAGUE ON WED. NIGHTS
WE ARE DOING THIS SO THAT THOSE PLAYERS THAT WANT TO PLAY +35 AND +40
CAN DO SO. ALSO THOSE WHO WANT TO PLAY +50 AND +40 CAN DO SO.
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There will be a board meeting on November 22nd at the Community Recreation Center from 6:00pm-8:00pm. This meeting is being called to finalize GFSA's position on the complex. Below is the proposal which GFSA plans to present to the City of Great Falls.
Proposal for responsibility distribution between the Great Falls Softball Association (GFSA) and the City of Great Falls.
CITY RESPONSIBILITIES:
1. HIRE COMPLEX MANAGER. WHO:
A. IS RESPONSIBLE FOR OVERSEEING DAY TO DAY OPERATION OF THE COMPLEX, INCLUDING THE CONCESSIONS AND OVERALL APPEARANCE OF THE COMPLEX.
B. IS RESPONSIBLE FOR BANKING, CHECK WRITING AND ACCOUNTING, AND WILL SUPPLY THE GFSA WITH YEAR-END REPORTS.
2. HIRE A COMPLEX SECRETARY. WHO:
A. IS RESPONSIBLE FOR MAILING REGISTRATION FORMS OUT TO TEAMS.
B. WILL IN CONJUCTION WITH THE GFSA BE RESPONSIBLE FOR PRESS RELEASES NECESSARY PRIOR TO AND DURING THE SOFTBALL SEASON.
C. WILL COMPILE A MAILING LIST OF ALL ASA TEAMS IN THE STATE AND REGION.
D. WILL IN CONJUCTION WITH THE GFSA DEVELOP A MULTI-SPORTS FLYER LISTING ALL TOURNAMENTS AND EVENTS UPCOMING FOR THE SEASON AND GETTING THESE FLYERS OUT TO THE TEAMS AND SPONSORS.
E. WILL IN CONJUCTION WITH THE GFSA WORK WITH THE SCHEDULING COMMITTIEE TO DEVELOP LEAGUE AND TOURNAMENT SCHEDULES.
F. WILL PUBLISH A FINANCIAL REPORT PREPARED FOR PUBLIC VIEWING.
3. HIRE A MAINTANCE CHIEF WHO:
A. IS RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL DAILY MAINTANCE OF THE FIELDS AND THE SURROUNDING GROUNDS AND IMPROVEMENTS AS TIME ALLOWS.
4. SCHEDULING OF NON SOFTBALL EVENT
A. WORK WITH THE HIGH SCHOOLS ON EVENTS.
B. WORK WITH THE UGF ON THEIR PROGRAM.
C. WORK WITH OTHER COMMUNITY PROGRAMS.
5. IN CONJUCTIN WITH THE GFSA PUT A COMPLETE PROGRAM FOR ATHLECTIC FIELD CARE. THIS WOULD INCULDE BUT NOT LIMITED TO FERTILIZING 4 TIMES A YEAR, OVER SEEDING, DRESSING AND PUNCHING THE OUTFIELDS ONCE A YEAR.
6. PRICING
A. THE CITY/PARK AND REC WILL PUT A PRICE FREEZE ON ALL FEES FOR THE 2006 SEASON AND WILL NOT RAISE FEES WITHOUT CONSULTING AND INPUT FROM THE GFSA BOARD.
GFSA RESPONSIBILITIES:
1. REPRESENTATIVES FROM THE GFSA BOARD WILL MEET WITH AN OVER SITE COMMITTIEE ON A REGULAR BASIS CONCERNING OPERATION OF THE COMPLEX.
2. RESPONSIBLE FOR ADVERTISING SIGNS IN AND AROUND THE COMPLEX.
3. WILL COORDINATE WITH DISTRICT COMMISSIONARE, TOURNAMENT SPONSORS AND COMPLEX MANAGER FOR THE OVER SEEING OF WEEKEND TOURNAMENTS, BRACKETS AND MAINTANCE CREWS.
4. WILL WORK IN CONJUCTION WITH THE COMPLEX SECRETARY FOR ALL PRESS RELEASES.
5. WILL WORK IN CONJUCTION WITH THE COMPLEX SECRETARY TO DEVELOP A MULTI-SPORTS LISTING OF EVENTS FOR THE UP COMING SEASON.
6. WORK IN CONJUCTION WITH THE COMPLEX SECRETARY TO DEVELOP AND YEARLY SCHEDULE FOR LEAGUE AND TOURNAMENTS.
7. WILL WORK THE PARK AND REC TO DEVLOP AN IMPROVEMENT LIST WITH A SCHEDULE AND PRIORITY.
8. WILL ENLIST AND ORGANIZE TEAMS FOR WEEKDAY AND WEEKEND MAINTANCE WORK THAT WILL WORK WITH THE MAINTANENCE CHIEF TO ACCOMPLISH AGREED UPON TASKS FROM THE IMPROVEMENT LIST.
9. WILL WORK THE PARK AND REC TO DEVLOP AN IMPROVEMENT LIST WITH A SCHEDULE AND PRIORITY.
10. THE GFSA WILL HAVE REGULAR SCHDEULED BOARD MEETING AND NOTICE OF ALL MEETING WILL BE GIVE TO THE CITY/PARK AND REC. DEPT.
11. WILL HAVE JOINT APPROVAL WITH THE CITY ON THE DISTROBUTION FOR PLAYER ASSESSMENT FUNDS.
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TJ''S EARLY BIRD TOURNAMENT
May 5th-6th
Great Falls, MT
3 GG
All Divisions
$175.00
Brian Brown-TJ''S SPORTS BAR
868-6472/727-1800
-MENS & WOMANS
-FREE SUBSTITUTION
-COURTESY RUNNER
-PAY OUT FOR 1ST & 2ND PLACE IN EACH DIVISION
(Based on number of teams)
-FREE FEED AT TJ'S FROM 12:00pm UNTIL FOOD IS GONE
-FREE BEER AT TJ'S FROM 5:00pm UNTIL FOOD IS GONE
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TJ'S OLDSTARS PLACE 2ND
August 8, 2005 --
Back Row Left to Right,Jason, Tim, Kevin, Russ, Dave, Chris, Mike
Front Row Left to Right, Bryan, John, Jim, Norm
Who would have thought that a team with a 4-6 record in league, would finish 2nd in the +35 State Tournament? No One ……. Well the boys out of TJ’s lounge did just that. What a great weekend, although it started out on a sour note!!!! You see Kevin (the Key Master) locked his keys in his Truck at Holter Lake and missed the 1st game. We still pulled out a 16-18 victory against the Elbow Room, with CJ’s 2 run Bomb in the bottom of the 7th. (Kevin showed in the top of the 7th). Game two was probably the game of the Tournament, we played a team called Team Self, and this game went 9 innings and showcased some outstanding defense. Even thought the Stars fell from the winner’s bracket with a 9-8 loss. Day two started out with a fairly easy game against Red’s Towing, final score 16-2. Next up was the Elbow Room again this time we didn’t wait for the 7th inning, final score Stars 20 Elbow Room 11. Game 5 brought Team Self to the plate, this game was another great game with the Stars winning 11-7… this win put the Stars in the Championship Game but we needed to win two over a very strong team (Cactus Creek) out of Billings. These boys just hit the ball and routed the Stars 28-8….
The bright spots of the weekend were: Tim Kuntz’s introduction to +35 ball, Tim ability was asset to the team. Team Oldstars look forward to seeing more of Tim in the future.
Not only did Mike pitch extremely well this weekend, He also hit a bomb in our loss to Cactus Creek. Even though it was a solo shot it was hard hit, which is all that we ask for…
I would be remiss if I didn’t mention our newest member of the K Queen club, none other then our own Russ (Digger) McKinney. I must say he sure does look pretty in pink. But Russ did put the team ahead of personal stats, by sharing duties with CJ behind the plate this allowed Tim to assume duties at 1st. Thanks for being a team player… Guys like you sure make it easy to manage a team….
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GFSA 2nd ANNUAL SNO-BALL TOURNAMENT
March 18, 2006 --
START THE SEASON OFF RIGHT
COME PLAY IN THE GFSA SNO-BALL TOURNAMENT
CO-ED 5 on 5 on 5 FORMAT
3 MEN 2 WOMEN OR 3 WOMEN AND 2 MEN
3 TEAMS PLAY PER GAME
1 TEAM OUTFIELD AND CATCHER
1 TEAM INFIELD AND PITCHER
1 TEAM BATS(MAY BAT 6 PLAYERS (3 MEN/WOMEN) AFTER 3 OUTS TEAMS ROTATE IN
BATTERS ROTATE TO OUTFIELD
INNING OVER AFTER ALL HAVE BATTED
5 INNING GAMES
ONE DAY EVENT - LOWER COMPLEX
4 GAME GUARANTEE
$100.00 ENTRY
SWEAT SHIRTS AND T'S AWARDED
SAT. MARCH 18th (19th if needed)
INFORMATION CALL TIM 231-4297 OR 727-1800
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March 26, 2007 --
Here are the results of the GFSA 2007 Sno-Ball Tourney.
1st - Hi-Ho Dust Devils ('05, '06, '07 Sno-Ball Champs)
2nd - TJ's
3rd - Silver City Strokers
4th - Locos
5th - Ryan's Station
6th - NEW
Well the tourney went pretty well I think. It of course was just a little windy. We ended up with 6 teams and we ran it as a round robin. Each team played 5 games and then the championship. I would like to thank all of the teams that made it possible to put this tourney on and I hope with a little more lead time and advertising next year we will have more teams. Thanks again to everyone. BJ Bentley
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Men's D Finals
2007 mens d state champs
the sting old dirty dogs
top row: aj lynch, justin mederios, chuck somers, frank english, jason mcbee, russ mckinney
bottom row: kevin schroeder, john kelly, jim lynch, dave nelson, steve hatchner, norm vercolen,
dean higginbotham
Congratulations to the following teams:
CONTINENTAL CONSTRUCTION BOZEMAN 2nd place
PIONEER HELENA 3rd place
COMPUSOURCE BOZEMAN 4th place
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As a reminder DOGS ARE NOT ALLOWED in the Great Falls Softball Complex. Please do not bring them. Thanks.
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Badgers Win 2008 Can-Am
Congratulations to the 8-Ball Badgers
The 2008 Men's D Can-Am champions
Good luck in district, and state.
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Sting ODD +35 State Champions
THE STING OLD DIRTY DOGS
2008 MEN'S +35 D STATE CHAMPIONS
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Great Falls Montana O.P.-Miller Lite
Huntsman World Senior Champions
Back row L to R Ron Reichelt, Mike Mancell, Rob Saksa,Gary Forsman, Jery Sepich, Bill Walters
Front Row L to R Larry Lewis, Denny Vandenberg, Artie Grue, Bob Vernon, Ron Hendrickson, Wayne Becker
Not pictured is John Alexander
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Great Falls Adult Softball Meeting Highlights
On Monday March 16th at 7pm, the Great Falls Parks & Recreation Department (Softball Division) had a softball meeting. For those that missed the softball meeting here is the gist of what was discussed. I would like to thank the 13 people that came to the meeting. We definitely needed more folks there in order to get a good idea of what is needed to be done to help softball in great falls. Below are some topics that we discussed:
Tournaments-What can we do to get folks to come to our tournaments like they do in Bozeman and Anaconda. Their will be four, I guess you'd call major tournaments this year along with a few other smaller tournaments.
-Great Falls Umpires Tournament
-8-Ball Blast
-Missouri River Mosquito Fest
-Can-Am Invitational
League-We also discussed the possibility of having a 20 game season with double headers. But, with only 13 teams represented tough to make decisions on something that big. It would cost each team $90 for 10 additional games. Other then that we discussed ways to promote softball in our city. I think were going to need to have another meeting before schedules are made. In case folks are down with 20 games. Those are the highlights for now.
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The Sting +36 2nd Place Men's C State
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Sting Ballers. 2nd Place "C" Co-ed 2009
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The Sting Old Dirty Dogs Place 7th in +40 Nationals
KEVIN SCHROEDER, CHUCK SOMERS, NORM VERCOLEN, KEVIN GRANTIER, JASON MCBEE, JOHN KELLY, TIM KUNTZ, MARK JARVIS, RICK COSTER, MIKE CHURCHILL, STEVE HATCHNER, DEAN HIGGINBOTHAM, RUSS MCKINNEY.
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NEW DISTRICT COMMISSIONER
First of all we have a new district commissioner. Larry Lewis is the new district commissioner. I would like to take this opportunity to thank Ken Berg for the time he gave as our previous commissioner.
Now, Larry will be going to the state softball meetings this weekend and would like to know if anybody has something that they would like brought up about softball, i.e. questions and concerns. Just email him at lewis52@3riversdbs.net . His phone number will be posted on GFSA website if you wish to talk to him in person.
I had a meeting to day with the new Parks and Recreation director Marty Basta and I must say it was encouraging. He is concerned about the state of softball in Great Falls and would like to turn it around. Now, he can’t do it on his own. He needs our assistance and he would like anyone who has ideas on how to make softball work in Great Falls. You can email him at mbasta@greatfallsmt.net . Folks it’s simple. If we don’t come up with something the powers that be will have no other course then to shut us down. After playing in this town for 26 years I definitely do not want to see softball fail. So, if you got legitimate ideas send them to Mr. Basta.
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GFSA Meeting
There will be a softball association meeting Thursday, April 21 at 6:00 at the complex - upper concession stands. Everyone is welcome and encouraged to come!
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GF SOFTBALL ASSOCIATION MEETING
March 31, 2005 - 06:00 PM --
There will be a softball association meeting this Thursday (March 31) at 6:00 at the complex - upper concession stands. Everyone is welcome and encouraged to come!
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LEAGUE WORK DAY
March 28, 2005 --
Work Day: The work day has been Re-scheduled for Sunday, April 3 @ 10:00. This is a volunteer work day for players to help set up the new Play Grounds, we will need basic hand tools (socket sets, wrenches....).
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The Complex
February 1, 2005 --
Well it is official, the complex is now ran by the GFSA. In a unanimous decision at the City Council the council voted to lease the complex to the association for $1 per year for the next two years. Now the work begins. We will need the support of all the teams to make this thing work.
There will be a GFSA meeting Thursday night at TJ's at 6:00 PM. All are welcome and encouraged to attend. The association has some good ideas for the up and coming year, but all inputs are welcome. So come to the meeting and get involved and help make our complex the best in the state.
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CITY COUNCIL MEETING
January 19, 2005 --
There was some slight confusion about the meeting last night. When I got there the meeting was already over. I guess the council had moved our proposal from last on the agenda to first. From the short conversation that I had with Ken, Will, Tim and Angie the meeting was mostly the council asking question of the GFSA. The GFSA also has some questions of the council about the draft of the Multi Sports Complex Lease Agreement between the city and the GFSA. Ken says that everything is looking good and the final meeting is set for the 1st of Feb. We don't have a time on the meeting; Ken will get the time and let us know. This is the meeting that we need to have all of the support that we can get, because the council will hear for's and against the proposal. So let everyone know that is involved with softball to show up at the meeting. If you have any input please post it in the forum. Link to write up in Great Falls Tribune.BJ
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RESULTS OF THE GFSA MEETING ON JAN. 6
January 7, 2004 --
After you've gone to a few meetings it becomes obvious, who the regulars are. Board members in attendance were: Kenny, Tim, Angie, Fournier, Traynum, and I think Jerry... But don't quote me on that. Team reps were there from Old Stars (sorry Jim), Pierces, Diesel, Rebels, Storm, Rhino, and TJ's (womens).
We got a good grasp on some of the logistical problems such as the mowing of the fields. The city has always mowed them twice a week, so do we want to pursue a deal with them, or do we want to purchase our own equipment? After some debate, it was decided that we would try to solidify a deal with the city.
The fields were dubbed as the biggest priority (batters boxes, infield lips, warning tracks). The playground upgrade will come next.
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GREAT FALLS SOFTBALL COMPLEX (CIRCA 1995)
January 3, 2004 --
Now that is a beautiful picture. It looks like someone was out there having alot of fun, look at all the cars!
Thanks for the pic BJ
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