USSSA Region 5 Series

USSSA of Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska are proud to introduce the USSSA Region 5 Series.  The USSSA Region 5 Series will be played at three venues within Region 5.  It is open to teams from all states in the ages of 10U-14U, but highlights softball within the Region.  There will be stops in Iowa (Des Moines), Kansas City, and Nebraska (Omaha).  At each of these USSSA tournament stops, there will set aside $25 of each entry fee into a fund.  This fund will be distributed as USSSA World Series travel money.  To receive this prize, and team must attend a USSSA World Series.  The prize will be delivered one week prior to the World Series event.    Below are the dates and locations of the events of the USSSA Region 5 Series.

City Date Complex Contact Divisions
Basehor, KS April 17-19 Basehor Field of Dreams Jeremy McDowell 10-14 A & B
Ankeny, IA May 8-10 Prairie Ridge/Hawkeye Park Bryan Sage 10-14 A & B
Lincoln, NE June 12-14 Doris Bair Park Greg McNeese 10-14 A & B

All three events will be used to generate the travel fund that will be awarded to the winning team at their USSSA World Series.  We will attempt to split divisions (A&B) per age group as much as possible.  The prize structure and scoring method will be determined by the number of times that each age group is played at one of the tournaments. (Example: We will probably have a 12B division in all three of these tournaments, therefore the prize pool will be greater so we will award to multiple prizes. However, we may only have a true 14A make two times in this series so we will give the prize money to just the champion of the series for those 2 tournaments.)

 
Travel Fund Prize Distribution
  Division with 3 tournaments
  1st Place - 70% of total prize pool
  2nd Place - 30% of total prize pool
   
  Division with 2 or less tournaments
  1st Place - 100% of total prize pool

There will be a point system used for tabulating by using the order of finish in each Series event.  This point system will not only reward the team that places well in a tournament but rewards the team that participates in ALL legs of the USSSA Region 5 Series (each team will receive 25 points just for participation in each event). Teams are eligible to qualify for multiple division prizes. (Example: If a team plays in all 3 tournaments and they are a 12A, but play in 2 12A divisions and then move to 14B, they can receive the prize from each division if they have enough points, in each division.) Below is the point totals and how they will be awarded for each event in the series.  These will be determined by a team’s final order of finish in a Series event.

 
Point System Distribution
  Participation 25 points
  1st Place 50 points
  2nd Place 40 points
  3rd Place 35 points
  4th Place 30 points
  5th Place 25 points
  6th Place 20 points
  7th Place 15 points
  8th Place 10 points
Iowa USSSA MSP Logo Nebraska USSSA   9th Place and down 5 points