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Event News: Triple Crown Sports Creates Four Regionals for this Summer’s 4th of July Tournament

This year’s Triple Crown Sports 4th of July Tournament will take place in four regions across the country. Photo: TCS.

Triple Crown Sports announced that its signature event during the Independence Day Holiday is being “regionalized” this year due to the Coronavirus pandemic.  Here is more as released this morning from the Colorado-based company…

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Triple Crown Sports’ signature fastpitch event, the Colorado 4th of July tournament, will take on a different shape in 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and making summer travel as comfortable as possible for youth softball programs.

There will be four distinct regional 4th of July events this year, all of them with the same format of a 6-game guarantee in the 18U/16U/14U/12U age groups.

The date range is expected to be June 29-July 7 (depending on team count and facility availability), with Power Pools and Open Divisions at each setting:

As of mid-May, different parts of the United States are approaching the return of sports with different timelines. Triple Crown will be monitoring the situation at these four regions on a daily basis and communicating with teams when there is news to share.

Triple Crown has multiple plans under consideration that will be dedicated to ensuring the safety and health of athletes, coaches and fans. Each 4th of July event will be run while keeping teams and spectators at the heart of our safety protocols.

The four-region concept allows teams to start making plans now for their 4th of July experience, which will feature terrific competition and thus attract, as always, a variety of college programs who will use the event as a key piece of their strategy for recruiting future players. This is also a great opportunity for teams that don’t usually travel to Colorado to play in the event.

“After reaching out to hundreds of club programs, we know that traveling this summer is a concern for teams. Triple Crown has the contacts and connections to make a regional 4th of July happen,” said event director Stephanie Klaviter. “There are ways to get back on the field safely, and we see various complexes coming back and ready to open. With multiple regions, teams can pick the best fit and also ease some of the travel demands in a time where being closer to home might feel more comfortable.”

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Triple Crown Sports is also on the vanguard of devising safe strategies for events. Dave King, the President of TCS, has been proactive in promoting safety protocols during tournament games:

Also, below are two slides from a seven-slide Power Point presentation detailing how to promote safe practices and social distancing at the ball parks:

 

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