Carolina Softball Association: CSA News
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Carolina Softball Association has again partnered with the Ashlie Pipkin Memorial Tournament and will sponsor and assist with organizing this year's event on September 15-16, 2012 at Sumter's Patriot, Palmetto and Dillon Parks. This will be the 4th year for this annual charity event.
Last year's event brought a record 51 teams to Sumter as players, coaches, umpires, volunteers and fans helped to remember Ashlie's amazing life. All tournament proceeds, including entry and gate fees and souvenir sales, will benefit "Camp Ashlie" and other non-profit charities. This year's events will also include a showcase event for the 16U and 18U age divisions. College coaches will be in attendance.
"We are extremely excited about continuning our relationship with the Ashlie Pipkin Memorial Tournament and to work with the generous volunteers that work so hard to remember Ashlie while promoting an event that benefits our youth," states CSA South Carolina State Director Rob Weiland. "As part of our committment to this event, CSA will not schedule any tournaments in the Carolinas during this weekend in hope that teams will support this event as well. We strongly encourage teams to sign up for this event earlier so that we can make plans to accomodate everyone!"
For more information on or to donate to the Ashlie Pipkin Memorial Tournament please visit www.eteamz.com/pipkintournament. To register for this tournament, please contact Jeffrey Bays at 803.983.3717 or jeffrey@playcsa.org or info@playcsa.org
Why play with Carolina Softball Association?
CSA offers all teams the opportunity to play as many games possible, with high school and collegiate certified officials, at a reasonable rate! We all want to play in tournaments with a lot of teams participating. We will also post confirmed teams playing on our website, without adding fake teams or teams that never said that they wanted to play. It's your choice who you want to play and when you want to play. No need to call for an updated list as they are conveniently online - saving you time and money! No one can control the weather and we all hate when events cancel, especially after they have begun and normally right before the finals. Our promise to you is that we refund all entry fees if the event is cancelled before your first game! We do not keep any of YOUR money for admin fees. If an event gets cancelled after games are played, we will refund money based on the number of games that your team played and what was guaranteed. We offer discounts for teams that play multiple tournaments with us or sometimes specials to promote a special event or location. These discounts are available to all teams. We will not offer a team a "deeper" discount so that they will play with us versus another organization. Our program succeeds when all teams are happy and tournaments are fair. Offering "deals" to specific teams is unfair to everyone else playing. We try to to make your experience an enjoyable one. Should you ever have a question or a problem, please contact a CSA Director. We are your service managers! Have a great season!
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Jeffrey Bays, of Sumter, SC, has been named as South Carolina Area Director for Carolina Softball Association effective January 1, 2012. Jeffrey will be responsible for the Charleston, Summerville, Manning and Bluffton markets as well as supporting the Sumter area.
“CSA and area teams are fortunate to have Jeffrey serve them as Area Director. He has always strived to make tournaments a great experience for players, coaches and fans. He will continue to improve our brand of play,” states Rob Weiland, CSA SC State Director.
He comes to us after years of coaching recreation and SCISA softball as well as coordinating the Ashlie Pipkin Memorial Tournament each year in Sumter. “I am looking forward to this new challenge with CSA and serving the teams in the Carolinas!” states Bays.
For more information on hosting events or umpiring in the low country of South Carolina, please contact Jeffrey at 803.983.3717 or jeffrey@playcsa.org.
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Kevin Birchfield of Laurinburg, NC has been named as Carolina Softball Association's North Carolina State Director effective January 1, 2011.
"We are excited that Kevin has accepted this role with us in the North Carolina market. He has done exceptionally well promoting CSA in North Carolina while providing a quality program to all teams," states Larry McElroy, National Director.
Prior to accepting this position, Kevin served as CSA's North Carolina Assistant State Director and has been with CSA since 2010. "I am looking forward to bringing CSA to the teams and players throughout North Carolina with new state and national tournaments! We are building a quality program throughout the Carolinas for teams and hope that they will play CSA."
For more information on tournaments and umpiring in North Carolina, please contact Kevin at 910-534-5748 or kevin@playcsa.org.
