Langdon hosting sno-pitch tournament

Shannon LeClair

Times Reporter

 

While the weather might not make you think of baseball, people will be dusting off their mitts and preparing to play some ball on March 5-6. Langdon will be holding its first annual sno-pitch tournament at the Langdon park. The tournament is a fundraiser to help raise money for the Langdon Community Association. 

“We’ve ran some before in Calgary, and then when we moved out here, they haven’t really had any fundraiser type of things,” said organizer Paula Anaka. 

A few months ago she had been a part of the Kids Carnival fundraiser, and it was shortly after finishing up with that that she had the idea for a sno-pitch.

“I thought ‘well you know, it might be fun to do something for the adults as well.’ I thought the sno-pitch would be a great idea to get all the adults out and get the community to come out and support locally,” she said.

There are a lot of sno-pitch tournaments hosted in Calgary, and so she decided to bring it to Langdon. Anaka said so far everything is working out well, and there has been a lot of support from the community and local businesses. 

“We have eight teams so far. We want to do a maximum of 12, but we have eight already,” said Anaka. 

She said there have been a couple of teams calling in the last couple of days, and she thinks they will have about 10 teams by the time the tournament begins. 

On the Saturday, there will be a banquet and dance for the teams, held at the field house. The championships will take place on Sunday, March 6.  It costs $250 to register a team, and the registration includes a dinner and drink ticket for each member. Each team will get a chance to participate in up to five games, and Anaka said the tournament will go on no matter what the weather is like, though the forecast is for nice weather. To find out more about the tournament contact Paula Anaka at 403-936-0766.