NSA

[BallinBombers 4]

besides Midwest Sports Complex and Kenton lakes.....do any other parks around here actually hold any NSA tourneys? thanks

[slamit93]

everything south of Kenton Lakes...

Maysville isn't THAT long of a drive... Georgetown, lexington and the Lexington area... check out kysoftball.com there are a handful of tourneys within 2 hours every saturday. (Good luck on sunday though, that's church day in KY)

[slamit93]

I think there is also a little more NSA the Columbus direction too, but I'm not sure.

[YoungGuns]

up near cleveland @ softball worlds ive been up there a few times

[assoc8]

columbusnsa.com playnsa.com

These should help ya on the NSA.

In Columbus if you have questions call Bruce Melton @ 614-876-6304.

Also more NSA north of Dayton in Lima Area.

[phatneff]

Can we get an explanatioin from any of the park managers on here as to why NSA hasn't been incorporated into their parks? Just curious, as I don't know why Cincinnati seems to be kryptonite to anything other than USSSA and ASA.

[RB27]

Can we get an explanatioin from any of the park managers on here as to why NSA hasn't been incorporated into their parks? Just curious, as I don't know why Cincinnati seems to be kryptonite to anything other than USSSA and ASA.

This question has been asked a million times and no one answers it for some reason.

[RB27]

might be cause they run a tighter ship and it'll be a pain in the rump to keep track of every player in Cincy and NKY. ( I really don't know, sounded good)

[mwc0199]

I think its time to drop asa and go with nsa. maybe I can get by with buying 1 bat.

[RB27]

I think its time to drop asa and go with nsa. maybe I can get by with buying 1 bat.

Wish it was that easy.............LOL

[b-pick]

I agree with Roger, after playing alot of NSA last year with Huber, NSA definitely runs a tighter ship, and even attempting to make strides of making the game better. Very tough to get by with anything. Directors are at all the events, and make note of about every team. Umps don't put up with much either. Currently in the process of eliminating the E class altogether. As far as parks, I think most are afraid of losing U-Trip tournaments that are delegated to them from the committee if they play any NSA at their venue. Its ashame, should be about the overall game of softball, and not just a brand.

[Kenton Lakes]

As the only NSA park in the Cincinnati area, it was strictly a business decision for us and Yes, it is more politics than anything that keeps NSA out of the other parks. Although our adult leagues are NSA and we have been working to get the NSA tournaments off the ground, the park is still at the mercy of the state office as far as schedule goes. They will not schedule tournaments that compete with other tournaments and with our park just moving to NSA and having been reopened after being closed for a few years we continue to lobby for bigger and better tournaments.

Now my only jab at U-trip is there was an article in the Softball News in early spring and it was promoting that Cincinnati area parks were hosting twenty-eight NIT events in all of its divisions this year. Remember when there were only a limited number of NIT's and they really meant something if you could win it. With NSA, when we host a tournament we do not have to compete with onother park across town host the excact same event.

We have wednesday men's D& E openings plus a Sunday COED/mixed.
Bill Martz
Kenton Lakes.

[slamit93]

there was an article in the Softball News in early spring and it was promoting that Cincinnati area parks were hosting twenty-eight NIT events in all of its divisions this year. Remember when there were only a limited number of NIT's and they really meant something if you could win it.

debatable...

there are essentially 22 weeks in the Cincinnati softball season, with 4 classes that the 28 NITs get spread amongst, that boils down to an average of 1 NIT per class every 3 weeks. Granted that there are some that are multi-class, etc. but still, is an NIT every other week for any given class too often? Would it be better if all we had to choose from was little crap qualifiers and be told which weekend the big tournament is each month? I don't think so. I'll take the weekly options that many of us in Cincinnati take for granted over having to drive 2 hours every weekend to get to the one meaningful tournament in the state that I used to do in KY. All of that being said, it would be interesting to see what would happen if a third sanction (whether NSA, ISA or something else) could get a foothold in Cincinnati.

I asked it before in another thread and never got an answer, but I've heard "rumors" that one of the parks north of the river is going to be an NSA park next year, is there any truth to this?

[Jrid32]

....As far as parks, I think most are afraid of losing U-Trip tournaments that are delegated to them from the committee if they play any NSA at their venue. Its ashame, should be about the overall game of softball, and not just a brand.

Midwest in Indy holds both UTrip and NSA sanctioned tournaments now. Since moving to Cincy from Indy (about a year ago) I really miss NSA...

[Kenton Lakes]

The 28 NIT's includes women's and coed divisions also.

[Andriola23]

WE NEED MORE NSA AROUND HERE!!!!!!!!

[ballinbombers3]

WE NEED MORE NSA AROUND HERE!!!!!!!!

agreed

[BallinBombers 4]

haha i juss dont think the umpires could handle changing the wording when the ball hits the plate ....around here they say "plate" in NSA they say "Dish" haha guess thats juss too much to ask for....oh well .....juss a bunch of my buddies wouldnt mind playin a little competitive ball n a few tourneys just sucks cuz everyone is already frozen so if we are playin to just have fun not like try n qualify and someone finds out we get protested were done.....i like NSA's setup on rosters also....u fill them out online and u have to use your b-day and drivers license number.....thats kinda hard to make up if a player is being questioned....but yeah....hopefully in the future there is more NSA around her