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Happy Birthday! and make it sound like Frosty the Snowman when you say it.



Happy Birthday is what my Grandson said to me today - along with a mess of others. It is my birthday today!



Hello again fastpitch enthusiasts -- It's Monday, June 4th and I have a few thoughts on my mind tonight and some more announcements.



Check out the main Wisconsin High School page of my website where a logo for the Women's Pro fastpitch playoffs in Kimberly is located. Click on that and it takes you to the press release you need to read to get all the information you need to get to Kimberly and watch the pros play in August.



Also read this:

Calling all coaches and anyone interested in girl`s fastpitch softball. I am in need of a U-14 girls fastpitch softball team to fill our tourney for this Sunday, June 10, 2007. If you are interested or know of a team that might be interested, please have them contact me as soon as possible. The tourney is only one day and you are guaranteed 3 games. We use WIAA and ASA certified umpires and the tourney is run very smoothly with each team playing only every other game. (there is also a U-18 tourney at the same time). PLEASE help me out if you can. thank you.

Nick Luther



If you look closely on the main page for Wisconsin High School Girls' news you will see a new link line to Action Scenes from the season. When you get to that page you will see some awesome photographs that my son Eric has been taking of players as he tours the state watching your teams play. There are two pages of photos that he has taken on the website but that is only a small fraction of all the great shots he has stored on my hard drive here at home. He has some interesting plans for all those shots that we will be announcing in a later bulletin.



My daughter also taught me how to load pictures that you e-mail to me onto the site so you can look forward to some pictures starting to appear with articles and bulletins as well. Be sure they are crisp photos though. It takes great cameras and camera operators to get top notch shots.



One of my favorite shots that Eric has taken is a picture of the Black River Falls pitcher at the Jamboree. She's the one with the blonde hair flowing and is wearing the orange jersey of the Black River Falls team.



That summer page is about to take life. Before it does you'd better send me the dates and details of for your summer tournament. And speaking of summer tournaments, if you are going to be at the tournament in Hallie in June, look for me there. I will be handling the onfield duties for the Poynette 12-Under team. I really enjoy watching my young cousin twirl the pill and have agreed to fill in for our 12-Under coach that weekend. I have no clue but perhaps that tournament is part of Jared's Flash Tourney? Is it Jared?



I don't have cable TV or a dish so I am not watching the NCAA game tonight between Tennessee and Arizona but I just got an update from one of my greatest friends who lives in Oak Ridge, Tennessee and he said he is watching the Vols lead the Wildcats 2-0. I'm hoping Tennessee wins that thing. I know Ralph Weekly from my newspaper publishing days and am cheering for him.



I'll be at Goodman Diamond on Thursday -- if you don't know who to look for just look for the old guy wearing a royal blue Fastpitch Chronicle softball cap - old because he turned another year older today and he's on the backside of 50.



Get your conference standings and all conference teams to me so I can post them. There's no better place in the state or on the world wide web to post those lists. Afterall, we are over the one million mark on visits to the website in the past year. That's a bit of traffic I'd say. But, it's not as much as it should be. So, help me get the word out and tell all your fastpitchin friends about the site.



I'll have my radar guns with me this weekend at Goodman. They'll be right behind the backstop. I'll also be doing some video taping for another project I have in mind.



It's late but I'm not going to bed until after midnight tonight. It's been way too great a day to not enjoy every last minute of it! I still have two hours and fifty minutes to enjoy life.



Have a great day!

Keep it Rising!

Bob