Area III Schedules, News, Results,..... etc.

Kannapolis Post 115 schedule, news and info can be found at a tremendous local HS website:
www.kannapolisfootball.com
(click on 2007 Kannapolis legion to the left of home page)


Also, to JM15,,,,,,, I will try to keep you posted on all Area 3 stuff as much as I can,,,,,, but a great source and possibly one of the best local small town newspapers who keeps up with local sports and who does a great job covering legion baseball better than any newspaper I've ever seen,,, is www.salisburypost.com

 

Concord

Concord was beat by a very good Asheboro post 45 team on Tuesday 4-2 in Asheboro. Concord bounced back last night to play and defeat Asheboro 7-2 at home. Concord opens up league play on Saturday in Ktown.

 

Kannapolis beat a very good Burlington team tonight 3-2 to get a split in their season series between the 2 teams. Jacob Wright homered for Ktown(1-2) who plays their first league game Saturday night at home against Concord. Should be great crowds with Concord at home on Saturday night, then Mooresville at home on Sunday night.

 

HAVEN'T HEARD OF A HOST, YET. BUT THE PROBLEM WITH THE HOST HAS STARTED TO COME TO LIGHT WITH THE AMOUNT OF $$$$ THAT HAS TO BE PUT UP FRONT. FROM A COUPLE OF SOURCES THE TWO OF THE LAST FOUR YEARS THE HOST LOST $$$. IF ANYONE HAS HEARD DIFFERENTLY OR KNOWS THE AMOUNT THAT HAS TO BE UPFRONT, PLEASE COMMENT.

SHOULD BE AN INTERESTING SEASON FROM THE SEA TO THE MOUNTAINS.

WHAT A GREAT GAME!!!

 

Smartbaseball,,,,, I don't have specific numbers in front of me, so others are certainly welcome to chime in, but since you asked on this thread, I will tell you what I know. In order to host a state legion tournament, first you need to have an adequate stadium with adequate seating and parking, which is also near enough motels to house the out-of-town teams. That is first and foremost, period. After that, it can become a bidding war depending on how nice you want to make it. I have really honestly only seen one state tournament that was on the slack side,,,,,,, others have been tremendous. In recent years, Shelby and Rowan County stick out as the top party-throwers for such an event. And yes, a good host needs $$$ up front, you need corporate sponsors willing to feed numerous players for up to a week. You need things for the boys to do when not playing. A good tournament can take a year to prepare, this is why bids are handed out a year in advance. This is also why there are some instances where a certain area simply cannot come up with a team that is willing to do it when the turn comes around.

However, as for your return,,, a host site gets a week long of great baseball, and from what I have seen, there is generally lots of $$$ spent in and aruond those tournaments so the host team and town is also benefitting financially as well.

I would guess in the $20,000-$30,000 (maybe more) range is your cost for such an event,,, but I've heard from several different sites that the return is much more,,, which is why there are certain programs who are well-established that literally JUMP at the opportunity to host such an event.

 

Shoot, even I dusted off my money and spent some in Thomasville last year

 

This is for all legion fans, but JM15 and tj specifically. I am pushing hard to have LarryD develop American Legion's own forum with JM and tj as the moderators. I hope you guys will like it...I know I will. I just think that AL deserves its own forum. I'll keep you informed

 

Braves,,,,,,, ask LarryD if he can put some kinda computer stuff on the legion forum to where if anybody ever uses that bad word (showcase), it will automatically ban them right then and there, just to help save JM15 and me some time...

Thank you...

 

Hahahaha---will do

 

Back to baseball,,,,,,,,,,,, South Rowan opened their season tonight in a league game against Mooresville but I haven't heard a score,,,,,,,,,, and I guess I came home with my tail tucked the other night because I see where I forgot to post about Eastern Randolph beating Kannapolis 12-2 this past Wednesday. Btw, we didn't give Eastern Randolph anything,,, they hit the ball very well all through the lineup, and no doubt will be a force in the Northern Division this summer.