2011 Midwest Regional 12 year old Cal Ripken Baseball Tournament

Baxter, MN July 27

 

Items to be completed ASAP

 

The Baxter/Brainerd area is a very tourist vacationland area, we have convinced one of the hotels to hold rooms for all Cal Ripken Midwest Regional guest at a very reasonable price for this time of year.  When calling please refer to “Ripken” to get this great rate.

 

1.      Call the Tournament Headquarters Hotel and reserve your rooms:

 

Brainerd Hotel and Conference Center

2115 So. 6th Street

Brainerd, MN 56401

1 218 829 4114

 

* A group rate of $80. is being offered to all Midwest Tournament Guests

Please reference Cal Ripken baseball when making your reservation.

 

2.      Please have your team manager email Joe Pohlkamp your team picture with player names and numbers.

 

joenmary@charter.net

 

 

 

 

Please make sure you read the rest of this booklet for information regarding the tournament.  We are excited to have you join us in Baxter, Minnesota.

 

** A side note there are many great fishing lakes and very nice golf courses in the area, you might want to bring your boat and clubs along.  Brainerd Lunkers a Northwoods Baseball team is also playing in Town.

 

 

 

July 2011

 

 Dear State Champion Coaches and Players..

 

Congratulations on winning your State Tournament and welcome to the 2011 Midwest Plains Regional 12 Year Old Cal Ripken Tournament. You will be traveling to Baxter, Minnesota in the center of Minnesota. Baxter Area Baseball Association along with the City of Baxter will be hosting the tournament. Baxter is relatively new in the Babe Ruth/Cal Ripken League compared to many other teams, but Baxter has been very strong the past 10 years. We have hosted a regional tournament before and have competed in many others, along with two trips to Cal Ripken World Series.

 

All of us at Baxter are looking forward to your arrival and hope this information will be helpful as you plan your trip. If you have Questions please have your team representative contact us in advance of your arrival. Please keep in mind that the information contained in this packet is intended only as a pre-tournament guide. Scheduling changes may occur as the tournament gets closer.

We want to welcome you on behalf of the entire Baxter organization. We look forward to a great tournament!

 

 

Joe Pohlkamp

2011 Regional Tournament Director

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TOURNAMENT NAMES, ADDRESSES AND NUMBERS

 

 

Tournament Director: Joe Pohlkamp

218-825-0758

Cell 218-232-1263

joenmary@charter.net 

 

 

Bring your Country (Canada) or State Flag

 

The Midwest Plains Regional Tournament is a tournament of State Champions and Canada representing each of the states making up the Midwest Region. We will be incorporating these Flags into the opening ceremonies.  We are asking each team to bring a 3 X 5 flag representing your state.  We ask that the flag not be mounted on a flag staff.  Grommets in the corners are ideal.  Each flag will be displayed during the tournament play and remain on displayed as long as the respective team remains in the tournament play.  Win or loose, your flag will go home with your team at the end of the tournament.

 

Tournament Playing Field

 

Baxter Oscar Kristopherson Park

 Field #3  backs up Field #1

 

230’ 6’ high home run fence.

Beautiful grass infield and outfield

Pitching mounds to Cal Ripken rule specification

Plenty of free parking

2 batting cages located at the tournament field.

 

Tournament Program

 

To help fund the tournament we will be selling Advertisements in the program, we want to make this a first class program your players and fans want to keep forever.  Please send team a good quality picture of your team and players to:  joenmary@charter.net.  We recommend the picture be in a jpeg form and the team information be in a word file.

 

 

Check in Information

 

Team check in will take place Wednesday, July 27 at Oscar Kristopher Park.  In addition to welcoming your players, and coaches Babe Ruth and Cal Ripken officials will verify team credentials. 

 

Required Attendance

*All players coaches must be in attendance at you designated Check in Time.

*All players and coaches must be in attendance at the picnic and skills contest.

*All coaches must be in attendance at the morning breakfast and coaches meeting with umpires it will be held Thursday morning at 7:15 at the Brainerd hotel and conference Center.

*All players and coaches must be in attendance at the opening ceremonies Thursday at 5:30.  All players and coaches must wear their team jersey for the ceremonies.

 

 

 

 

Check In Schedule Wednesday July 27th

 

Host team………..1:30

Minnesota………..2:00

North Dakota……..2:30

South Dakota…….3:00

Iowa……………    3:30

Nebraska…………4:00

Kansas……………4:30

Missouri………… 5:00

Colorado…………5:30

Canada……………6:00

 

Please be on time so we can avoid disrupting Friday’s schedule of events.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

GENERAL TOURNAMENT GUIDELINES

 

·        Regular Cal Ripken/Babe Ruth Baseball Tournament rules will be the guideline.

·        Home Team will be on the bottom of the bracket for the first round only. A coin flip will determine Home Team after the first round.

·        All Tournament games will be played at Baxter Field. No practices will be allowed on this field. Teams are expected to be game ready when they take the field at game time.

·        We will allow a brief infield/outfield warm up prior to games.

·        Practice fields for team practices will be available and given out at team check in. We will not be assigning specific times and locations.

·        All Tournament games will be played according to the scheduled times. Game times will not be moved up in the event of short games. Long games might infringe on the starting time for the next game, but we will adhere to the schedule as close as possible.

·        Game lineups should be turned in at least one hour prior to your scheduled game time. Line up forms will be provided for your convenience. Do not forget to sign your line up form.

·        We request that all teams be ready to play, at least 30 minutes prior to the scheduled game time. Occupancy of the dugouts will be allowed 15 minutes prior to the game play.

·        Dugouts will be assigned as follows: Home-3rd Base, Visitor-1st Base.

·        We ask that you and your players be “in the area” of the appropriate dugout as your game time approaches. Please do not enter the designated dugout area until permitted.

·        The dugouts are OFF LIMITS, AT ALL TIMES, TO EVERYONE EXCEPT ROSTERED MANAGERS, COACHES AND PLAYERS. If parents want to talk or deliver items to players, we strongly recommend this be done before or after the game.