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Weather looks NICE for this weekends tournament! https://weather.com/weather/tenday/l/USTN0084:1:US

http://www.soddydaisysoftball.com/2017sdladytrojanstournament1.html Look at Pool .PDF link at the bottom of the page.

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Welcome CAK

Welcome Rhea County

Welcome East Ridge and East Hamilton

Welcome Creek Wood

You are invited to participate in Soddy Daisy High School’s 27th Annual Lady Trojan Invitational Friday April 14 thru Saturday April 15th @ Warner Park, Chattanooga, Tennessee 4 Game GuaranteeEntry Fee $250.00 Please complete entry form below and mail to: Dr. Richie Wood or Travis Hale 618 Sequoyah Road Soddy Daisy, Tn. 37379 Make checks payable to: Soddy Daisy Softball Boosters 32 TEAM LIMITFor questions call E-Mail: dr.richiewood @gmail.com or Travis Hale : travishale24@yahoo.com Deadline for Entry – March 1, 2017 Games start Friday 9:00 A.M. Lady Trojan Invitational Entry Form Name of School ___________________________________ Address__________________________________________ Coach’s Name____________________________Phone # ____________________E-Mail Address:___________________ Special Requests: _____________________________________________ Class (circle one) DI: A AA AAA DII: A AA

We finished a very strong week in College Station, Texas a few minutes ago with two heartbreaking ITB defeats. We are looking for pitchers, two are not able to return. Catcher, third base, outfielders, one middle player. Looking for speed too. Hitters with strong work ethics, as our top three are moving to older teams. You can email me at dr.richiewood@gmail.com Fury organization tryouts are this coming weekend( August 14) at Warner Park in Chattanooga.

Team fees run $1500.

The Fury Fastpitch Organization was founded in 2006 with a vision to build teams that could compete for National Championships, and to develop players that wanted a chance to play at the next level. Our ultimate goal is for all FURY players to find the right fit at the collegiate level, and for our FURY teams to compete for National Championships in every age division. We are looking for a player due to injury to a current player. We need a quality utility player. We are looking for someone who wants to play D1 college ball and wants to be exposed to major college coaches. We play an aggressive ASA/ College Exposer "A" level schedule and qualified for Nationals in College Station, Texas (2016). We have three players moving up to 18U next season. Our Fury organizational tryouts will be August 14, 2016. To set up a private tryout or to inquire about more information, please contact Richie Wood at dr.richiewood@gmail.com

The tournament is designed for all state playoff teams from the year before to be in separate pools, with the exception of Grace Baptist who asked to be in Soddy Diasy’s pool each year. We start the tournament on Thursday with teams who want to play on that date. So Indian, here is a time for you to play Soddy Daisy since you all are 30 miles from our high school field and you all will be fresh as a daisy. Some coaches fill out the form and tell me what they want and some say just put us in we don’t care. Then you deal with schools that don’t have the day off and need late playing times. Between e-mails and calls it takes me a few weeks to build the pool play to make sure every school get a fair schedule. Now comes bracket play, and I don’t have control over how your team performs. As far as the umps go we have the assigner put them in their games requesting only the best 4 call the two championship games. So your cries about our umps have no merit, but it may make you feel better. If the brackets are not balanced then a true blind draw occurs for a team or teams to get a bye. Here again I know the truth and you can have you conspiracy theories. Thursday night gets here and we have four teams playing. The first game is played and we are into the Soddy Daisy verses East Hamilton game when at 7:33PM a storm hits the field and rains out the game. At 8:00PM I went to Soddy Kids Park and the rain there was light and the fields were in great shape. Right after that on Weather Channel radar a storm built over that area and a hard steady rain fell for over 4 hours. We meet at the fields and I issued the delay to 12 Noon. At 7AM the next morning I got to the fields and they we in a mess. The parents along with Wes Skiles and Lamar Lasley worked to get four fields playable. The high school field was the first to get dried enough to play so we started a pool there after the debate over keeping the pools play to 3 games or cutting them down. I had to adjust the pool play schedule with coaches calling, the two ump assigners asking questions, and a few parents from other teams calling me wanting to know what was happening. So I left, went to my computer, turned off my phone due to low battery, and tried to come up with a schedule. I had roughly one hour to adjust the schedule so I drew a line on the old pool play so the last game would start at 9PM and tried to give teams Friday and Saturday games. Poor Knoxville Halls I really messed up on and gave them 3 pool games on Saturday, my apologies I did not see problem. The bottom line is the tournament designed for all teams to have three pool games on Friday and bracket play to begin Saturday. When the rains came that scenario went out the window and unforeseen advantages and disadvantages occurred. I know I don’t design the tournament for Soddy Daisy to win. Now Soddy Daisy often plays in the finals of the gold bracket, but more times than not we have lost. Soddy Daisy plays in the gold bracket finals because they work to be winners, this starts in the two middle school programs. Since 1990 Soddy Daisy has won 7 AAA State Championships, 5 times runner-up, 2 third place finishes and one 5th place. For all you whiners out there (it is not the coaches they understood the mess I was under), do what GPS, Baylor, Grace Baptist, and East Hamilton did, call and ask to play Soddy Daisy while you are fresh.

Dear Indian, send me your phone number. With all your knowledge and hindsight on how things should be run, you would be a perfect director for this tournament.

Ok, since 1990 it has been the coaches,plus playing and practicing on the big field in middle and high school that produced the players. A special THANKS to all the coaches of the 22 teams for their understanding with our 7 hour delay Friday and the mess it put us in to get fields ready. I was able to still give every team their 4 games as promised. I had about one hour to come up with a revised schedule after the 12 noon start could not occur, thus, spreading pool play over two days was not what I wanted but it became necessary. Overall, I saw a lot of great softball being played with many games coming down to the wire. About 8 or 9 teams will be playing in the state championship if they finish the year strong. Best wishes to all the teams as you finish this season. Richie Wood I saw many games come down to the last play.