Blackburn wins silver at OASA Men's C
Word is that Blackburn won the silver medal in the "C" division at the rain-plagued OASA Men's Provincials in North Fred this past weekend.
The tourney had nine teams and was to determine the B and C provincial champions.
There was also discussion that North Fred may be the location for the ISC II eastern Ontario qualifier in June 2007.
The tourney had nine teams and was to determine the B and C provincial champions.
There was also discussion that North Fred may be the location for the ISC II eastern Ontario qualifier in June 2007.
posted by fitzroyfastball | 9/04/2006 02:48:00 pm
7 Comments:
It'd be a shame if North Fred got the qualifier - those were some of the worst diamonds I've ever seen!
no return to fitzroy??
Yes... Very poor outfields... Not great infields... it would be one thing if they were planning for the Napanee diamonds as the main diamonds... that is a great complex...
Also... poor organisation this weekend... although I'm not sure whether it was the OASA or the North Fred side of things... either way, some more teams are going to boycott the OASA in general and focus more on the ISC II's...
There was talk of teams opting to head to Elkland instead of OASA's next year... OASA'a are becoming more and more of a waste of time...
The tournament was very poorly organized. One of our guys got hurt and they didn't have any medical staff or even a First Aid kit available.
The fields not very good either, you would get inconsistent bounces in the outfield, on the fairground field the sand was practically the same colour as the ball so it was really tough tracking grounders.
The umping for our games was very contraversial. Its understandable for the boys in blue to miss a call or two during a game. However these guys managed to not only miss calls but completely screw up the ones they did see, umpires are not the ones who should influence the outcome of the games.
I think Elkland is going to be a very popular tournament next year.
- Valley #12
Comments from Blackburn:
...driving 2.5 - 3 hours then having to play a double-header is an injury waiting to happen
...losing 4-0 (to the eventual champions) and winning 13-6 and being relegated to the "C" side (despite being a +3 in RF/RA) when a team who is mercied 9-1 and wins 1-0 makes it to the "B" side is just plain stupid (the first tie-breaker is runs against)
...it was obvious that a tie-breaker was going to be necessary since 2 of the 3 divisional 2nd place teams go to the B and the other goes to the C, yet the tie-breaker rules were no where to be found
...The outfields were brutal, saw way too many nasty hops and the fences were deep so there were a ton of standup triples and inside the parkers
...Can't really comment about the umpiring, we had Teddy and Dave for 3 of our 4 games
...We played the Blitz our 2nd game (dunno why 2 Ottawa teams were placed in the same 3 team division), then when put in the "C" double-knockout, our 3rd game was again against the Blitz. Had the Blitz not have went home (due to the brutal weather and shortage of players) we would have again played them for a 3rd time. It was entirely possible for them to have driven 2.5 hours, play 4 games, 3 of which would have been against us
...Weather was crap starting Saturday afternoon and the tournament should have been cancelled on Sunday but the OASA continued although they did hold a coaches meeting Sunday morning to get the team's input
...The whole having the roster handed in before the end of June for a September tournament is ridiculous in this day and age of fastball
Shannon Borho
Blackburn Bombers
I agree with everything that's been said. I was telling Blinky that there's more pride in winning the Blitz tournament than winning the OASAs.
Our game against Entreprise included some of the worst umping I've ever seen. Those two mooks had no sense of the game and didn't know the rules of fastball. Either that, or they were just afraid of Kevin Brown. Maybe it was both.
and there weren't enough scorekeepers... OASA was blaming the Host for not having them, but either way fans were being asked to scorekeep
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