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I went through the entire web page where I have final standings and all conference teams posted. Here's what I discovered. There are far, far too many conferences which have had nobody send me the standings or all conference teams. I'm shooting for 100% coverage on that page for 2007 and I won't stop insisting that somebody gets that information to me.



Here is the list of delinquent conferences.

Big 8; Central Lakeshore; Coulee; Dairyland; East Central Flyway-Rivers; Fox Valley Association; Greater Metro; Heart O' North; Indianhead; All of the Lakeland Divisions; Lakeshore; Marinette & Oconto; Midwest Classic-South; Northern Lakes; Olympian; Parkland; Ridge & Valley; Six Rivers West; Southwest Wisconsin Conference; South West Athletic League; Southeast; the Milwuakee City Conference; Trailways North; Valley Eight; Woodland;



I was thinking about more stories for my book as I was out working on Legends Field today (my plastic bat and ball Stadium here in my backyard). I have to start jotting down the stuff that comes to me but here's just an example of the kind of stuff that will be in the book.



Back in the early days of coaching girls' fastpitch softball our Poynette club was playing at Waunakee. In those days the games were played at Centennial Park in "The only Waunakee in the World." Poynette had a father who was known to be cantankerous throughout his entire lifetime and he had demonstrated that behavior toward me many, many times. On the occasion I'm writing about though - I could only laugh when it was over. Here's how it went. We arrived, warmed up and the game was underway when the cantankerous guy sauntered over to the bench by me and asked me why I didn't have the restrooms unlocked for people to use. Remember, we were the visitors and we were in Waunakee. I didn't have a key to the restrooms. I have always tried to have everything in order, be organized and be ready to handle any situation that might arise but unlocking the Waunakee City Park restrooms was not something I had any control over. That didn't make any difference to the cantankerous father, however, and he just walked away huffing at me anyway. I suppose he figured that we had so much organization that we ought to at least have keys to every away venue that we traveled to.



From what I can gather, there is also a big invitational youth girls' fastpitch in Altoona this weekend as well so if you are in that part of the state - there is some softball there to be watched.



Coaches - get those umpire rankings done soon and do it by getting online and clicking on the School Center and use the correct screen name and password and take care of business.



Keep it Rising!

Bob