The
USSSA Baseball
Congratulations
on an outstanding season and welcome to the 2010 USSSA 9U AA and 9U State
Championship. Your tournament host will be Mississippi Select Sports and FNC Park, and it will be our goal to
create an experience that the players, coaches and families will remember for a
lifetime. Your USSSA State Director will enter teams in the appropriate age and
appropriate division of play. The tournament will be played at FNC Park – Oxford-Lafayette Fields
in
Seeding
will be based upon USSSA Points. The format of the tournament will be double
elimination following USSSA Baseball guidelines and being approved by the USSSA
Baseball State Director.
Your team's application (USSSA State Championship
Entry Form) and check or money order MUST BE RECEIVED BY YOUR STATE
DIRECTOR BY June 18, 2010. The State Director will then forward this material
with your official roster, entry form and entry fee to the state tournament
host to guarantee your spot in the event. Your entry fee, in the amount of
$315.00 can be paid online at http://www.usssa.com/
or mailed to the
Your team's Official Roster must be entered on-line at http://www.usssa.com/sports/home.asp?Sport=11
and have your State Directors Approval.
All players participating in
USSSA Baseball tournament play shall have photocopies of their original birth certificates in the possession of their team
manager. Failure to have a copy of the birth certificate available
upon demand will result in the offending team losing the game, being
ejected from the tournament, being placed last in the standings and
forfeiting all awards, sponsors travel money and tournament berths that would
have been awarded at the tournament.
Playing Rules:
All
playing rules shall be governed by the USSSA Baseball
Handbook and the National League rules for Major League baseball.
In
the event of inclement weather, all games would resume at the next possible
time regardless of Tournament Dates. Any team that could not be there for that
game would forfeit that game and any other games. No refunds would be allowed
for teams choosing not to complete the tournament at the rescheduled game time.
Brackets:
Brackets will be released after 4:00 p.m. on Tuesday, June
22, 2010.
In
order to be able to provide the brackets prior to the State Tournament start date,
points earned from the events played the weekend prior to the State Tournament
will not be used toward seeding for the State Tournament. State Tournament
brackets will be seeded by USSSA points. USSSA point totals will be tabulated
on the Friday prior to the start of the State Tournament in order to accurately
seed the teams and release the State Championship brackets prior to the start
of the event.
Note: (Pre-Tournament Meetings & Activities)
There
will NOT be a managers/coaches meeting.
Teams are required to have proof of insurance and player
birth certificates in their possession at the event.
Awards to be Presented:
A. Team
trophies to the first and second place teams
B. Individual awards to the first and second place teams
Lodging:
Hotel
Information may be obtained at Oxford
Convention and Visitors Bureau.
Admission:
During
the tournament there will be a gate charge of $5.00 per person per day (10
years old and older). Tournament passes will be available for $12 per
person. These charges include everyone
except players and team coaches. Each team will receive (3) coach
passes.
Tentative Itinerary:
USSSA
RULES OF CONDUCT:
It is the purpose of USSSA Baseball to conduct
the best possible tournament from all aspects. To achieve this objective, USSSA
must have the cooperation of each player, manager, coach and sponsor.
We are guest in the city the tournament is conducted and nothing should occur
that would reflect negatively on your team, players, our host city or USSSA
Baseball. Therefore, it is required that all teams in the tournament comply
with the following rules: