OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. Fourteen teams have advanced from the Amateur Softball Association (ASA) Hooters Championship Series events across the country to the National Championship final Oct. 1-4 in Oklahoma City, Okla. The event is being held at the ASA Hall of Fame Complex, which recently hosted the KFC World Cup of Softball and the inaugural Border Battle.
Tournament play beings at 8:30 a.m. on Friday and concludes Sunday morning. Other activities include the coaches meeting on Thursday evening and the competitors party, hosted by Hooters at the ASA Hall of Fame Complex, on Friday evening. A complete schedule of the event will be released at a later date.
Since the ASA restructured the Hooters Championship Series in 2001, the winners of the Mens B, Womens C and D East and West National Championships have advanced to Oklahoma City to decide the true National Champion in each division of play. The north, west, east and south compete in the Mens C and D National Championships.
The two teams competing this year in the Mens B are Checking/Worth (New Haven, Conn.) and Tharaldson Enterprise (West Fargo, N.D.). Since the format was changed, the east has won eight consecutive National Championships with the latest going to Lighthouse (Orlando, Fla.) taking the 2008 title.
In the Mens C division, the teams playing for the National Championship are Double Deez Construction (Preston, Iowa) out of the north, West Coast Dynasty (Torrance, Calif.) out of the west, Softball Times (Lexington, Ky.) out of the east and CSC/Gutterworks (Cookerville, Tenn.) out of the south. The title went to the north for the first time last year with Suburban/SKS of Kalamazoo, Mich., taking the title. Teams from the east have won four times while the west has reigned three times.
Next Generation/Just1More (Owatonna, Minn.), Victory Custom Athletic (Saugus, Calif.), Virginia Select (Crozet, Va.) and LA Strokers (Maurice, La.) are playing in Mens D. In 2008, Joe Corbis of New Windsor, Md., gave a fourth straight title to the east. The teams from the west won the titles from 2001-2004.
In the Womens C, Low Bobs of Kentucky will face Springfield Crush (Springfield, Mo.), hoping to give the east a fourth consecutive title. BW3/K&G (Warren, Ohio) will face PDX Softball of Oregon in the Womens D, which has been won five times by the west, including 2006-2008.
The ASA Men's Class A Slow Pitch and ASA Women's Open Slow Pitch National Championships will also be held Oct. 1-4 at the ASA Hall of Fame Complex in Oklahoma City. Teams interested in participating in the Mens Class A Slow Pitch and Womens Open Slow Pitch tournaments should contact a local ASA commissioner for more information.
The ASA has already crowned over 100 National Champions each season in everything from Girls 10-Under Fast Pitch to ASA Men's Senior 50 AA Slow Pitch. Results from each event are posted on the ASA Web site at www.asasoftball.com/tournaments/current_finals.asp as the information is made available by local tournament directors.
Photos from select National Championships are available on the ASA/USA Softball Facebook page at www.facebook.com/asausasoftball/
About ASA
The Amateur Softball Association, founded in 1933, is the National Governing Body of softball in the United States and a member of the United States Olympic Committee. The ASA has become one of the nation's largest sports organizations and now sanctions competition in every state through a network of 83 local associations. The ASA has grown from a few hundred teams in the early days to over 240,000 teams today, representing a membership of more than three million. For more information on the ASA, visit www.asasoftball.com.
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