: : : : : Coed A : : : : :
Anchorage - 6 teams
1.) Classic Coffee (Anc)
2.) Office Lounge (Anc)
3.) Superior Logs (Anc)

: : : : : Coed B : : : : :
Anchorage - 9 teams
1.) Moose's Tooth (Anc)
2.) The Merchants (Anc)
3.)

: : : : : Coed C : : : : :
Fairbanks - 11 teams
1.) Backdoor Lounge (Kenai)
2.) S.A.L. #35 (MatSu)
3.) Pump House (Fbk)

: : : : : Coed D : : : : :
MatSu - 27 teams
1.) The Village (Anc)
2.) Cinevision (Anc)
3.) Team Lopez (Anc)

: : : : : Coca Cola Cold Hard Cash Mens B : : : : :
Fairbanks
1.) The Tribe (Anc)
2.) Eddie's (Anc)
3.) Weldin Construction (Fbk)

: : : : : AlaskaSoftball.com July Invite Coed C/D : : : : :
Anchorage - 7 teams
1.) JJ's/Bush Company - D (Anc)
2.) The Bush Company - C (Anc)
3.) Taylor Leasing - C (Anc)

: : : : : Coca Cola Cold Hard Cash Coed A/B : : : : :
Fairbanks
1.) Brown's Electric (Anc)
2.) Boatel (Fbk)
3.) The Replacements (Fbk)

: : : : : Coca Cola Cold Hard Cash Coed C/D : : : : :
Fairbanks
1.) Arctic Thunder (Fbk)
2.) Icy Hot (Vldz)
3.) Northern Air Cargo (Fbk)

We're hosting a coed tournament the weekend before city at the Cartee Complex, it's the last chance to get your team ready for City, or if you don't have enough players available for City why not pick up a few players and play in this. The tourney wasn't on the original tourney schedule so here are the details:

• Location: Cartee Complex
• Levels: Hope to have separate brackets for Coed A&B, C, D and maybe Rec
• Team Awards: Custom Trophies
• Individual Awards: Tourney MVPs & All Stars, Game MVPs
• Pickups Allowed: Three male or females from the division of the team or below
• Games: 4 guaranteed, 2 round robin and a double elimination bracket
• Deadline to sign up: Noon Wednesday, July 23rd
• How to sign up: Through Anchorage Sports at 562-1504

See ya there!

: : : : : Anaconda Money Tourney : : : : :
Anchorage
1.) Vito's Guido's (Anc)
2.) The Tribe (Anc)
3.) Boston's (Anc)

: : : : : Bovey Trophy Mens D Tourney : : : : :
Anchorage
1.) LD's (Anc)
2.) High Life (Anc)
3.) Keystone Hotel (Vdz)

: : AK Indoor Sports Invite Women's C/D Tourney : :
Mat-Su
1.) Sheldon Electric(Anc)
2.) Alaska Rim (MS)

Websites like kellysultimatesports.com are advertising a last call on 98 mph ASA certified bats because ASA will be going to a new testing system starting with 2009 bats.

ASA has notified all bat companies that starting July 1st all (2009 Models) will have to undergo a new test named the (ABI) Advanced Break in Technique test which is actually ASA rolling the bat with a compression machine on the barrel. The bat would then be put to the 98 mph test and if it fails then ASA reserves the right to ban the bat. This has forced the Bat companies to make the 2009 bats around 93 to 94 mph in the wrapper to begin with instead of how they have been making bats as close to 98 mph in the wrapper as they could. All current models like these one will be grandfathered in indefinitely and will not be subject to the new ABI testing. So get them while you can.

Here are the two 2008 changes to the rules that will affect Alaska softball the most:
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Rule 3, Section 1 G: The bat barrel shall be free of audible rattles when shaken. The bat barrel shall not have signs of excessive wear.
Comment: Bat manufacturers suggested that this rule would help identify bats that have started to break down internally.
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Rule 8, Section 4 F: Slow Pitch Change Women's Open to Women's Slow Pitch
Comment: ALL women's slow pitch classifications are allowed to steal
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A full list of changes can be found here.

On Oct. 20th ASA held their annual state meeting in Anchorage. Representatives from Anchorage, Fairbanks, Kenai, Homer, Mat-Su and Southeast were in attendance. During the state meeting members tackle classification, state and invitaional tournament schedules, proposed codes changes and more. This year there were some major changes that require some explanation. click the headline to read more!

The Alaska Pride Men's C team from Anchorage went down to Reno for the ASA Balloon Race Tournament the weekend of Sept. 8-9. There were teams from California, Oregon and the host Nevada. The Pride placed 7th out of 30 teams here's Matt Sugita's recollection of how the weekend unfolded for them :
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Gm 1) 18-10 Win
Gm 2) 32-14 loss from a Nevada team that put 16 runs up in the first inning before we even got to bat. They base hit us like crazy and we just didn't hit.
Gm 3) 16-13 win
Gm 4) 15-3 win
Gm 5) 18-14 win
Gm 6) 10-16 loss to a team from California

So, our experience down there has made at least me, appreciate our fields here in Anchorage. The fields down there are solid clay, with a bit of gravel on top of it so footing was horrible. We later found out that short and third would play in the grass so that they have lateral ability. Oh well. The fields were not soft because they were not allowed to use water for that purpose.