Soggy, then Nast, then Beautiful Weekend

The Hueytown Purple and Gold Classic started out as a Soggy weekend. Of the 5 games that played on Friday, some were blow-outs some were really close. but they all ended soggy.

On Saturday we woke to this...

Yes, that's snow in Alabama, in March. Interstate 59 was closed and we had to cancel games.

We immediately started contacting coaches and found that HALF the original field could return but our park had already scheduled pictures for their league teams on Sunday. So we secured the Gardendale fields and scheduled the 4 remaining 12U teams to Gardendale and the rest of the teams played in Hueytown.

Sunday turned out to be a wonderful day with highs in the 70's. You would have never known that it snowed the day before. In Hueytown we played from 11am with the Championship Game for 10Us starting at 5pm. In Gardendale they started at 2pm and the Championship Game started at 5pm. A Beautiful day for softball!!!

The results were as follows:

8U

1. Springville Shock
2. Red Storm

10U

1. BL Lady Bombers
2. Birmingham Mustangs

12U

1. Birmingham Bandits
2. Birmingham Mustangs

All teams played well and everyone seemed to have a great time! The Mustangs gave away 196 Tournament Tshirts, 6 MVP Awards, and 6 Team Trophies. In Hueytown, for the 10s and 8s, every team won at least one game and no team went undefeated! Thats good competition among the teams!

For all of you that came back for Sunday Play, we appreciate the support! Thank you very much! The Concession Stand for the tournament was manned by the Hueytown Fastpitch Softball Park and the money from it went to Support NSA League Play. The Park really thanks you for the support that you showed the park.

I have to commend the spectators of the event. I heard almost no negative remarks during the tournament and while walking around cleaning during and after the event, I noticed that all of the teams really cleaned up after there selves. Thank you for that...

I hope all teams and organizations will return to Hueytown next year where we hope to play the Purple and Gold Classic Again!!

Thanks to the following Teams:

8U

8U Pokadot

8U Red Storm 2000

8U Bama Crushers 99

8U Shock

10U

10U Mustangs

98 Vipers

10U Pokadots

BL Lady Bombers

10U Red Storm Frenzy

Red Storm 97

12U

Mustangs 96

Red Storm 96

12U Total Chaos

12U Cruisers

12U Tuscaloosa Tide

12U Bandits

Venom Fastpitch

Neat Heat

Thank you for entering our tournament and playing through Friday Night and thanks to those who came back on Sunday!

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