This year there will only be a coed snowshoe tournament during Fur Rondy, it will be Feb. 23-24. Cost is $225, games will be played at the Kosinski fields in midtown and players have to wear the snowshoes provided. For more information contact Donnie at Anchorage Sports, 562-1504.

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.

The first day the fields had deep spots in left and right, like 350 deep or more. So that changed the positioning of the fielders in those fields. If you hit one over their head you had an easy inside the park homerun! The second day they threw us a loop by putting the tournament on 285 foot fences. That really messed a few of the teams up. The second game we lost they must have had 8 outs from that. We had a couple I think.

The weather was good, 93 the first day 87 the next. I talked to a couple of teams and I gave them your website address to check out tournaments for them to come for. Several teams were interested. As for the competition, we could keep up with other teams, we just had a couple of issues like field stuff and a few hangovers and things.

Three teams from Alaska traveled to the ASA Men's D Nationals in Portland Oregon over Labor Day Weekend. There were 42 teams and the winning team, Hara's from Salem, OR, lost their first game 17-11 to TAI and then went through the loser's bracket and beat TAI twice in the championship to win it all. The Alaska teams finished:

13) Soland Contracting-Anc., 3-2
Won 19-17 over Team Christopher, MN
Lost 25-5 to Oswego Drywall, OR
Won 23-3 over RallytimeCDA, ID
Won 25-11 to Fattboys, MT
Lost 19-8 to Major Leaguers, AZ

25) Zoobar-Anc.(Warriors), 1-2
Lost 16-9 to KTI, WA
Won 15-1 over Evans, WY
Lost 12-11 to Cheerleaders, OR

33) Floors Galore-Juneau, 0-2
Lost 22-10 to Team Gold, CA
Lost 17-7 to Integrated, OR

Congrats to the Hooter's women's team from Anchorage, they placed 4th (21 teams) at the ASA D West Nationals in San Antonio over the Labor Day weekend.

Congrats to this year's teams:
Coed Open - 4 teams
1)Nunya-A; 2)Poor Boys-A; 3)The Valley-MS; 4)Brown's Electric- A/K
Coed D - 5 teams
1)Taylored Leasing-A; 2)Fresh Ale Pub-A; 3)Urchins-H; 4)Heat Systems-A; 5)Cousins-CA
Coed E - 5 teams
1) His N Hers-A; 2)Darwin's Theory-A; 3)Guardian Flight-KT; 4)Bush Co.-A; 5)Crazy Carlile-A

Hope to see you all next year!

Men's D
(1) Walrus Detailing; (2) CBI; (3) Flight Deck Team Jager; (4) Brew Crew
Men's E
(1) Flight Deck Cuervo Gold; (2) PnD Engineers; (3) Kodiak Electric; (4) Wells Fargo Rainmakers
CoRec 7/3
(1) Team Ireland; (2) CYS Management/Blue Fox Lounge; (3) Yukon Fireball; (4) Polar Refrigeration
Coed E/Church/Faith
(1) Alaska Waste; (2) Ninjustice; (3) NANA Hunters; (4) NAPA "No Hitters"
Coed D
(1) Burger King; (2) GCI; (3) Witzleben Undertakers; (4) CPT
Coed C
(1) Flight Deck Team Jager; (2) Brother Francis Shelter; (3) Ballz Deep/Bad Ass Coffee; (4) Eddie's Sports Bar

Womens C Anchorage, 5 teams
(1) Hooters-A; (2) Guido's-A; (3) Lounge Lizards-A
Womens D Fairbanks, 5 teams
(1) Bush Co.-A;(2) Robinson's Millwork-MS;(3) AlaskaSoftball.com-A;(4) Subway-F
Womens E MatSu, 6 teams
(1) Kodiak; (2) Shelton Electric-A; (3) ERMA-A; (4) Chulitna Construction-MS

Mens C Fairbanks, 12 teams
(1) RockStar-F;(2) Quiseqeya-A;(3) Auto Trim-F;(4) Shockers-F
Mens D Mat-Su, 23 teams
(1) Valley Cubs-MS;(2) Packaging Store-A;(3) Team Debe Reischke; (4) TruBuilt-MS
Mens E Anchorage, 12 teams
(1) Riptide-K;(2) ???;(3) ???;(4) ???

A=Anchorage | MS=Mat-Su | K=Kenai | F=Fairbanks

Our annual Labor Day tournament is right around the corner, we already have one team from Dawson, Canada signed up and ready to make the trip. Here are the details for this year's tournament:
Sept. 1 & 2 at Cartee Complex in Anchorage; $250 AND five game guarantee

* * * * * Three levels coed of play * * * * *
Open: Put together a team, they just need to be registered in ASA or NSA in Coed, Mens or Womens. 3 home runs and Progressive
Coed D: Use your D team roster and add up to 4 Coed players, 2 can be from Coed C. 2 home runs and progressive
Coed E: Use your E team roster and add up to 4 Coed players, 2 can be from Coed D. 1 home runs and progressive

Call Anchorage Sports at 907-562-1504 to register
Deadline is NOON Aug. 29

We are shooting for 6+ teams in each division, Open, D and E/Rec.

Hope to see you there!

Congratulations to this year's coed State Champs
Coed B Anchorage, 9 teams
(1) Van's-A; (2) Quaction-A; (3)
Coed C Fairbanks, 7 teams
(1) Matrix-F; (2) Arby's-F; (3) Frontier Club-F; (4) Midnite Mine-F
Coed D Anchorage, 19 teams
(1) PIC-A; (2) The Grind-A; (3) SAL #35-MS; (4) Hallmark Homes-A
Coed E Kenai, 15 teams
(1) VECO-A; (2) Hess Builders-MS; (3) SBS-A; (4) Duggan's-K

A=Anchorage | MS=Mat-Su | K=Kenai | F=Fairbanks