After this very successful first year of Softball, the Belfast Brawlers  invited a few teams to Belfast for an end of season tournament (the BEST Blitz). This was mainly organised to put Belfast on the map in the Softball community and to provide the Softball enthusiasts in Belfast with some competition on their home turf.

4 Teams from all over Ireland were invited to the Malone playing field for Saturday 29th of September to join the two Belfast teams; the Belfast Brawlers and the Smokin' Aces. The teams were, from Dublin; Deadly Suspects and University College Dublin team, from Galway the Tribes and from Limerick the University of Limerick team.

Below was the line up of the two Belfast teams:

Before and on the day, Carrie Trundle had a lot of help in organising the event and a big thanks goes out to all of these people, from the club these were Maarten, Aisling, Terry, Etain and Karen. Liam Halferty, was photographer and Carrie's right-hand man on the day and she is very grateful for the help.

A number of people came up from Dublin to help in the event and we are very grateful to them. In particular, Steve Trundle and Paddy Meehan from the Packers who have supported the Brawlers from day one. Steve freely took over the umpiring of our third diamond and was a huge help in organising the event. Taz and Patrick Kinsella umpired the other two diamonds and kept things running smoothly. Dave Burke and Colum Lavery were there to give both Belfast teams a helping hand, being honorary members for the day. Hayley Hennessey was also a great help in getting things started on the day. 

The day ended as a great success with a tight final between the Deadly Suspects and the University of Limerick teams.

We hope that all the teams had a great weekend as we all did. We are already looking forward to next years competition.

More pictures here.

Final scores:

Belfast Softball Blitz:
South Belfast News 10-2007