[phs1986]

I was not at the game but my wife and father in law were and they said the same thing. They said the umpires were a joke and we already talked about how poorly the tournament was ran. These kids practice and play the whole season just to have some retarded umpire end their season on a fluke call. Why not let the kids play and may the best team win. My son is just 13 and if the tournament is held in London next year we will not play. We have played a lot of travel ball over the years and I can honestly say this was by far the worst ran tournament ever. They cancelled 2 days of games because of rain. If they had any kind of field crew they could have played both days. We have had to drive 150 miles one way only to be told when we arrived that the games were cancelled. They don't seem to comprehend that this is a state tournament and people have to travel from all over the state to get there or they just don't care. We won the game but it feels like we didn't earn it. I feel so bad for the Belfry players, coaches and fans. It certainly was a shallow victory to say the least. Belfry had a great team and deserved better.

Thank you very much for the kind words. They are very much appreciated and I do mean what I said about the class of your team. They were great!!

The kids have all decided that "LITTLE LEAGUE" isn't worth it if this is the way they want to run it. Cal Ripken OR travel ball sounds good to me!! I know mine has said that he will NOT play again next year and will do travel ball and high school ball. London can have the tournament and run it however they see fit as that is what they do anyway. I can tell you SEVERAL rules that were broken that would have sent you home in our district. We have to be straight up or we are sent home PERIOD! Our boys worked their butts off only to be done like this..... I hope tonight when the "TOURNAMENT director" (if thats what you wanna call him) AND those 3 other PEOPLE that were on the field have nightmares for weeks to come over doing these kids that way. It was pitful!!! I know all ours wanted to do was to play ball. Our league has spent over $5000.00 on motels due to their "cancellations". London/Laurel has gotten their last dime from us "Belfry folk".......