Up around Wisconsin girls are trained to thank the umpires after the game. Anywhere from shouts of "thank you blue" to teams going and having each player shake the umps' hands.
Our team does this as well. HC is a former college catcher, so she knows the importance of a good ump.
As for the sportsmanship, we were at PONY in Va last week, we played a team that screamed and skreeched at our pitcher, we beat them to send them into the loser's bracket. Low and behold they fight their way back to within one game of playing us a gain. They had a 5 run lead, hooting and hollering the whole way. Lost 6 to 5 in the last inning on a walk-off suicide squeeze! KARMA!
Did the umpires address this issue? Did anyone bring it to their attention if they weren't addressing it initially? How'd the tournament go overall? I was down there too.
