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Hello Everyone – It s state tournament week and I ve been told that the weather might affect the event.

 

I was at the Verona complex last Saturday and it s a dandy so if teams get moved to Verona, don t fret, the fields look just like Goodman Diamond and play just like Goodman Diamond except for the seating for fans.

 

Weather permitting, I ll be at Goodman Diamond for the fourth Division 1 quarter final, the Division 1 semi-finals and all the other games. You will probably be able to find me most of the time sitting at the media table right behind home plate.

 

I want to get summer softball tournaments on the WSN site and have been looking at the WSN Directories pages. They way they have things set up right now it appears to be basketball terminology. I ll try to get them to change the grade levels to age groups such as 10-U, 12-U, 14-U, 16-U and 18-U instead. I d imagine that people will be best to e-mail me their tournament information like the name of the event, the dates, the entry deadlines if there are any, entry fees, starting date and ending date. 

 

Then after your tournament is over I will request and e-mailed, detailed report from your tournament that I can post on the Opening Pitch Blog and be able to use information from those tournaments for future Fastpitch Bulletins.

 

To view the Tournament Directory you must go to the far, far right hand side of the red options bar on the softball site of WSN. Click on the "More+" and go from there.

 

Many have asked me how the past season went for me in terms of taking on the position of Content Provider for WSN and not using The Fastpitch Chronicle website. Here are a few general answers to those questions.

1) I think the WSN site offers coaches and teams a great venue for promoting themselves. The game score reports forms where coaches can fill out the boxes and e-mail it automatically to media outlets is one thing that many coaches really tell me they like.

2) We need to clean up the glitches in the way the game score reports appear on the site but we ll get there.

3) The biggest issue for everyone that uses the site are the coaches who don t. When a school s schedule and roster is not on the WSN site every score reporter s hands are tied when it comes to doing a perfect job of score reporting in terms of line scores and box scores. It s impossible for a score reporter to simply type in the name of kids from the other school. That is aggravating and I realize that.

4) Some coaches report that they find the site much harder to navigate the The Fastpitch Chronicle site. We have plenty of time to iron out some glitches.



5) Trying to find all the scores from games played compared to just being able to scroll down through a day s worth of games was another issue that many of you told me about. I m trying to figure out how to remedy that without me having to spend countless hours doing what it took to make that happen on the old site.

 

Have a great day and as always

Keep it Rising!

Bob