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| Dennis (Hosanna)
April 29, 2008
12:11:19 PM
Entry #: 2730797
| The Edmonton Senior's Slo-Pitch Association will be hosting to tournaments at their diamonds at Airways Ballpark (113 Str & 113 Ave, just south of the municipal airport). These tournaments are intended to be fun. If enough teams register, they will have a recreational division and a competitive division.
The first one ("Blue" tournament) is May 23-25, and the second one ("Green" tournament) is July 25-27. Entry fee is $240 per team. I have registration forms available in PDF if you are interested (leave a note here). Alternately, you may contact Dave Patterson for registration or more information. His email is bigread1(at)telus.net (you need to change the (at) to the symbol, of course).
I umpired in their blue tournament last year; that one had just one division, and teams seemed to be having a lot of fun. There was a wide variety of teams including several seniors-only teams and others with young adults. There will be prize pay-outs to winning teams as well as some selected at random.
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| jamesl7755
April 29, 2008
4:57:27 PM
Entry #: 2731214
| i would be interested in the second tournament in july please send me some info....
james
RoadRunners.
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| Greg (Wyecliff)
June 24, 2008
12:40:53 PM
Entry #: 2805340
| I was wondering if there is a web site or contact list for upcoming tournments around Alberta?
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| Dennis (Hosanna)
June 26, 2008
10:59:25 AM
Entry #: 2808429
| I’m not aware of any such centralized listing. That would require a level of organization and coordination that just doesn’t seem to exist!
I do know of a sports contact list at:
http://www.edmonton.ca/commpeople/SportGroupContacts.pdf
But that lists contacts for various leagues in the Edmonton area, and generally such leagues have their own tournaments that are not open to outside teams.
And yet there are organizations that host tournaments that aren’t affiliated with particular leagues. I don’t know of a listing of these, but I can point you to a couple of them.
Obviously, as per my OP, there’s the Edmonton Seniors together with EDSUA, who are hosting one more tournament this summer.
Also, there’s Canadian Softball Athletics, who have a number of tournaments still to come. See here: http://www.csasoftball.ca/tournaments/
And there’s the big annual Heritage Day beer-fest, uh, I mean, tournament in Edson, hosted by the Edson Kinsmen Association (http://www.edsonkinsmen.ca/), but it’s probably full by now (they do have a waiting list teams from that list are called in to replace other teams that default their first game).
NSA has a tournament-listing service on their website: http://www.nsacanada.ca/PHP/tournamentlistings.php?prov=1
SPN and Softball Canada seem to only worry about their championship-play tournaments (that’s what it looks like on a cursory view), so unless you want to pursue “full-rules” slo-pitch (i.e. with strike zone, with the official leading-off rule, with 5-and-5 coed format or is gender, etc.), that’s probably not what you’re looking for.
I know that various Christian organizations have also hosted open tournaments, but a quick google search didn’t turn up anything promising.
But I did find a few others, such as:
Crowsnest Pass, “Rum Runner Days” (July 17-20):
http://www.rumrunnerdays.com/events.htm
Sylvan Lake, “Impact Slo-Pitch Festival” (an annual event that is taking a break this year):
http://www.impactslo-pitchfestival.com
Finally, open tournaments are typically advertised in the classifieds of various newspapers. Keep an eye on those.
Hope this helps!
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