We played a lower tournament last weekend. We are just getting a team together to get serious about weekends, took 5 guys from our league team, 5 guys from other league teams, and 1 guy we picked up off the state boards, 1st time we played as a team. We played 2 bronze teams, and 2 rec teams. 1st game was a bronze team that has been together a few years, they beat us 22-9. We played 2 rec teams our next 2 games and it wasn't close, 1st game we were up 16-0 after we batted once and the next we won 24-10. Last game was another bronze team and we lost 12-10.
We are already talking about just moving up next year. We are playing a few more tournaments this year as rec to see how things go, but the games against other rec teams weren't much fun. 1 game we only played 3 1/2 innings, no fun at all for either team in a game like that. I think something needs to be done to classify teams better by TD's, but teams need to do it themselves. I guess some of them would rather have a sure thing they can compete in at the rec level than step up and maybe have to play ball to win.