2018 WORLD SERIES SESSION IV SKILLS COMPETITION RESULTS

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OF THE WINNERS!

Home Run Derby
Age	Player	Team
8u	Zane Hale	Midwest Elite
10u	Avery Haynes	Game Time Warriors
11u	Jacob Lott	Ballbusters Baseball
12u	Will Johnson	Kentucky Mayhem
13u	Camden Barnes	NV Stars
14u	Jackson Steele	Tennessee Bash
15u	Whitt Spurlock	Tri-City Generals
Golden Arm
Age	Player	Team
8u	Scout Quinn	Midwest Elite
10u	Cory Jones	Midwest Elite
11u	Luke Smith	Ballbusters Baseball
12u	Hudson Mandel	Bama Starz
13u	Jake Sears	NV Stars
14u	Noah Wood	North Texas Wolfpack
15u	Eliu McMoore	Tri-City Generals
Around The Horn
Age	Team
8u	Midwest Elite
10u	Midwest Elite
11u	NV Stars
12u	Katy Nitro
13u	NV Stars
14u	Samurai Baseball Club
15u	Ohio Force

*** PLEASE MAKE ARRANGEMENTS TO PICK UP YOUR PLAQUES UNDER THE PAVILION AT THE TOURNAMENT HEADQUARTERS IN THE CENTER OF THE COMPLEX AT FRANK BROWN PARK.

GRAND SLAM SPORTS TOURNAMENTS PRESENTS

THE 2018 GRAND SLAM WORLD SERIES OF BASEBALL SESSION IV

July 23-29, 2018 in beautiful Panama City Beach, Florida!

Tentative Schedule of events for Sunday, July 22, 2018

8:00-9:00 AM:  Coaches & Team Mom's meetings for 8U, 9U, 10U, 14U & 15U teams @ Rockit Lanes, Richard Jackson Blvd., PC Beach, Florida

9:00-10:00 AM:  Coaches & Team Mom's meetings for 11U, 12U, 13U, 16U & 18U teams @ Rockit Lanes, Richard Jackson Blvd., PC Beach, Florida

3:00-4:00 PM:  Opening Ceremonies Parade Line-Up at Pier Park in parking lot behind Dillard's.

4:00-5:00 PM:  Opening Ceremonies Parade at Pier Park (Parents will need to find a place to watch AWAY from staging area.  Stage is set up in front of the Croc's store where all teams will be announced.)

5:30-7:30 PM:  Dinger Trading Cards & Steelberry Pin trading event at Rockit Lanes, Richard Jackson Blvd., PC Beach, Florida

Tentative Schedule of events for Monday, July 23, 2018

8:00 AM-2:00 PM:  Team & Individual Skills Competitions at Frank Brown Park (teams will sign up at Coaches meetings for allotted times)

** Games begin at 8:00 AM on Monday, July 23rd.  Each team will play a DH on EITHER Monday, July 23rd or Tuesday, July 24th with the day you aren't scheduled to play as your designated day off.  Double Elimination Championship bracket play begins on Wednesday, July 25th.  No team is eliminated prior to Thursday, July 26th, Championship games are set for Saturday, July 28th and Sunday, July 29th is the Rain date.  We urge all teams to schedule hotel stays from Saturday, July 20th through Sunday, July 29th in order to not be rushed.

World Series Session IV is an OPEN event as it has been for the past 14-years.

GRAND SLAM WORLD SERIES OF BASEBALL SKILLS COMPETITIONS

 

 

SKILLS COMPETITIONS WILL BE HELD FROM 8:00 AM - 2:00 PM ON TBA fields at FRANK BROWN PARK on Monday, July 23 for age divisions 8U through 15U.  There will be THREE Competitions, ONE TEAM competition and TWO INDIVIDUAL competitions.   We will award champions in each age division.  Coaches must sign their players up ahead of time at the coaches meetings on Sunday in order to participate.   

 

** Dates and Times are subject to change based on weather.

 

THE TEAM COMPETITION will be the AROUND THE HORN competition (9-players)  

 

•    Each team will have 9 position players.

•    Each outfielder will have a base placed in a standard outfield spot which they will have to touch before they can throw.

•    Each infielder will have to touch the base before they can throw.

•    A wrong throw must be thrown back to that player and player must re throw to correct spot

•    A 5 second penalty will be given for each missed base

•    How the competition works

•    Pitcher throws to catcher

•    Catcher to second (shortstop covers)

•    Shortstop to first

•    First to third

•    Third to second (second baseman covers)

•    Second to right field

•    Right field to center field

•    Center field to left field

•    Left field to home

Time will start when the catcher has the ball and steps on the plate. Time will end when catcher has the ball and steps on the plate.

Make sure you have players backing up each throw, your other players my retrieve a missed ball and give it back to the player that has to throw it. The player backing it up may not throw the ball to the next base only the player that is playing that base. The player 

backing up the play must be one of your nine player's being used in the competition

 

THE INDIVIDUAL COMPETITIONS will be the HOME RUN DERBY & GOLDEN ARM competitions!  Max of 4-players per team can participate in the individual competitions.

 

HOME RUN DERBY:  Must provide your own COACH pitcher and shaggers.  Each player gets 8-pitches or 5-swings, whichever comes first.  If a tie occurs, tie breaker is 5-pitches or 3-swings, whichever comes first.   200-foot fence.  Players in 12-U and up will have their balls over the fence measure to determine winners.  

 

GOLDEN ARM:  Player will stand 150-feet from home plate in CF and have 3-throws to try and hit a target at Home Plate.  Most targets hit wins.  Balls can hit target on the fly or only bounce ONE time to be counted as a hit target.  In case of a tie, we will go to sudden death, one try for each player tied until we have a winner.