Hello everyone,
This past weekend we had our end of the season softball tournament for our rec league teams. My team played a great first game against a team we played earlier in the year and we won.
Our second game was against a team we also played previously and won against in our regular season. The girls on that team were not the same girls we played during the regular season. They were bigger and played much better than the team we played during the regular season. They ended up winning. Since the tournament was double elimination, we still moved on to a third game.
The third game was against a team that dropped out of the league because they said they didn't have enough players to play and therefore they forfeit all of their games. Miraculously, they had put together a team with enough players for the tournament. These girls too were very skilled and they ended up beating us.
I later found out that both the second team we played and the third team we played "stacked" their teams with players from their travelling leagues. These travelling leagues practice year round and are much, much more skilled than a rec team who only plays and practices 3 months a year.
How can the ASA allow teams to do this sort of thing? I'm not trying to sound like a sore loser - I don't mind my girls losing, as long as the game is fair. I don't understand how a team can pull out of the league and forfeit every game but then some how put together a team for the tournament?
Even though the outcome wasn't exactly what we wanted, I told my girls to hold their heads high. They did a great job and left everything out on the field, which as a coach is all I can ask for. They did a great job and I'm very proud of them. I just wish those games would have been fair and they would have played against teams with equal skill level.
This past weekend we had our end of the season softball tournament for our rec league teams. My team played a great first game against a team we played earlier in the year and we won.
Our second game was against a team we also played previously and won against in our regular season. The girls on that team were not the same girls we played during the regular season. They were bigger and played much better than the team we played during the regular season. They ended up winning. Since the tournament was double elimination, we still moved on to a third game.
The third game was against a team that dropped out of the league because they said they didn't have enough players to play and therefore they forfeit all of their games. Miraculously, they had put together a team with enough players for the tournament. These girls too were very skilled and they ended up beating us.
I later found out that both the second team we played and the third team we played "stacked" their teams with players from their travelling leagues. These travelling leagues practice year round and are much, much more skilled than a rec team who only plays and practices 3 months a year.
How can the ASA allow teams to do this sort of thing? I'm not trying to sound like a sore loser - I don't mind my girls losing, as long as the game is fair. I don't understand how a team can pull out of the league and forfeit every game but then some how put together a team for the tournament?
Even though the outcome wasn't exactly what we wanted, I told my girls to hold their heads high. They did a great job and left everything out on the field, which as a coach is all I can ask for. They did a great job and I'm very proud of them. I just wish those games would have been fair and they would have played against teams with equal skill level.
