14" of snow and still played

[mick]

Our normal June start got a rare boost this weekend even though the host town got 14" of white.

Marquette, Michigan which is in the center of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, and touching Lake Superior, hosted a seven team DIII/DII women's tourney, in the Northern Michigan University football dome.

With home plate in opposite end zones, we had two games going every two hours and shook off some of the rust gathered since the last game in August.

Ground rules Ceiling Rules were:

Balls striking the overhead press box over home plate were foul

Balls striking the ceiling, speakers or lights were in play.

The rug deadened so much of the sound we couldn't hear the fans, or the the head coaches if they were more than 75' away. If they weren't yelling we had trouble hearing them 40' away.

The eight umpires used the Officials Room which was an elevator ride to the 2nd level where the 16'x20' lounging room was flanked by two 10'x20' shower/changing rooms.

Oh, well.... Unless I happen to catch a Fed game in May, I'm only gonna read about it until June.

It was fun and quite interesting. Being around those athletes is always a real treat.

mick