The Bash Committee worked extremely hard to make this a success and I could not have even have had it without the many hours dedicated by the Committee!

The 102 teams we had was way more than we thought could happen, and I have to credit all of our CFBSA teams that signed up to support our Association to make this such a great win for us and our community!

Even though we had a lot of teams from other associations and even teams that traveled from Tyler and Waco, our teams made this a success that I know we can build on next year. We made some mistakes this first tournament, but I know that we will be better prepared next year as I believe that we can get to 160 teams next year and we will have the new fields up front so we can run more games at once which will allow us to handle more teams.

One thing we will need next year would be a lot more Field Marshall’s so please volunteer to help in that area so we can make sure that things flow smoother next year and have a larger presence out at the fields.

I would like to announce that three of our CFBSA teams won a Championship in their age bracket! The U-10G Angels, U-13B The Crew, and the U-14G Kicks!!

In fact the Kicks have as a coach one of our board members Chuck Sloper, and they did not give up a goal the entire tournament!

I want to also mention that if your team participated then your team is also a winner even though you did not win a trophy! This was a great experience for our teams that have not played in a tournament before. I talked to several that had not and said that their players really had a great time and learned about playing in a Tournament and felt that it was special!

We had a lot of U-8 and below that I know really had a great time and all received a beautiful medallion to remember the First Spring Bash Tournament!

I look forward to the Second Annual Spring Bash next year and hope that even more teams will sign up from CFBSA!

Tommy Ellis
President, CFBSA