BRUCE MOORE / Rocket JV Challenge

The Second Annual Bruce Moore / Farm Bureau JV Rocket Challenge will be held at Rocket Park at Person High School. This is a fundraiser to support the construction of a fitness center for our students and athletes. IF you want good tournament atmosphere and good food and fun, come out and support this tournament, one of the few JV Tournaments in the State.

Teams in the Tournament include:

Person
Southern Alamance
Walter Williams
Orange
Cardinal Gibbons
South Granville
JF Webb
Bunn

A Bracket is attached FYI with game times, etc...

 

What a great idea. I know of a few programs in Charlotte that would love to attend a JV tournament. Perhaps Bruce can post something in the fall to let the coaches know about this

That is if he wishes to expand the pool.

 

That is something we could consider... We have to fields very suitable to HS baseball in Roxboro.

POtential teams can email me, if there's enough interest for next year, we would certainly enertain this thought.

 

Brief Synopsis of the Tournament going into the final Day.

Day One:

Orange defeated Webb in 9 innings
South Granville Defeated Bunn
Cardinal Gibbons defeated Burlington Williams
Southern Alamance defeated Person


Day 2:

Webb defeated Bunn
Person Defeated Williams
Orange Defeated South Granville
Southern Alamance defeated Cardinal Gibbons

Day 3:

Williams forefitted to Bunn
Webb defeated Person

3rd Place game: South Granville vs Cardinal Gibbons
Championship: Southern Alamance vs Orange

Notes:

Southern Alamance has scored 35 runs in 2 games, they are awesome. Orange is a very solid team, it should be a humdinger of a game.

 

A BIG THANK YOU TO ALL TEAMS AND PARENTS

I would like to take this time to say a BIG THANK YOU to all the teams and parents that participated in our JV tournament this past weekend!!!!
Thank you to teams from:
OXford Webb, Bunn, Orange, Burlington Williams, and Southern Alamance!!!!
Orange won the Championship by defeating Southern Alamance 3-2 in a very good baseball game!!!!

I would like to publicly Thank all my Rocket parents both JV and Varsity baseball as well as the Rocket Football parents that worked all weekend to make this tournament a HUGE success!!!! It will be to date one of the best fund raisers Person Atheletics has had!!!! THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH!!!!!!
Thanks also to Coach Evans, Coach Tuck, and Rocket JV Coach Dickens for there hard work and dedication to our programs and our fine young men!!!!

And Braves, yes we are discussing very seriously about expanding the number of teams for next year as it seems to be alot of interest and support for this type of tournament for JV teams. In my humble opinion everyone involved with this tournament were WINNERS!!!!

Once again THANK YOU to everyone involved!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bruce Moore / Farm Bureau Insurance Agent / Roxboro, Person County NC

 

LOOKING TO EXPAND TOURNAMENT in 2007

We are thinking about expanding the tournament for next year. One possible format is having 2 8-team tournaments on separate fields, then having 1 vs 1, 2 vs 2, etc... to determine a champion for the 4th day. I would like to know if there would be serious interest in this type of tournament. I know of 7 teams that are planning to return next year, and have heard that 1 Charlotte area school may be interested. I want to see this thing grow into something big.

What do you think???

If interested, contact me at [email protected]

 

I think given the time to let the JV teams raise money for a trip...there would be many schools that would likle to participate. The only other concern is that not all schools have Spring break/Easter at the same time. But if it can be worked out...the Charlotte JV's would love to go to a tournament

 

Our Easter Break would run Apr 6-11, which means the tournament would probably run Apr 6,7,9,10 if we went to a 4 game guarantee. If we keep it as is, it will most likely run Apr 6,7,9.

So far we have never charged an entry fee. We have just asked that each team bring a dozen game balls. Our biggest cost is umpires, and if we doubled the size, we may have to look for additional funding to offset that increased cost, which we may do through sponsors, etc...