13th ANNUAL MIDWEST CLASSIC BASEBALL TOURNAMENT 2009

MARCH 30 - APRIL 2

GENERAL INFORMATION:

1. Each team will play 4 games, with 3 pools on Friday. You will play 2 teams in your pool and we will be using 3 sites. Saturday we will go to a championship pool and 2 consolation pools.

2. There will be 5 tie breakers: 1) Record in pool play, 2) Head to head competition, 3) Runs allowed in pool play, 4) Runs scored for, 5) Coin toss

3. The entry fee will be $250.00

4. Make checks payable to: Francis Howell High School

5. Send checks to: Dave Witter, Francis Howell High School Activities Office 7001 S. Highway 94 St. Charles, MO 63304

6. Each team will supply 2 baseballs for each contest.

7. Home team will be established by a flip of the coin during pool play. Home team will be the higher seed during the bracket play.

8. The winning team will be responsible for calling the scores into sports stats. If the winning teams are not from St. Louis, have the teams that are from St. Louis call them in, regardless if they won or not. Site managers will have to call in scores if both teams are not from St. Louis.

9. Umpires will be assigned by the Greater St. Louis Umpires Association - Dennis Duncan, 355-5878.

10. A barbecue will be set up at C&H, SCW, FHN, and FHC, on both days where you may purchase food. Coaches and administrators may eat for free. Please support our host sites.

11. Tournament T-shirts will be on sale for $10. Coaches will get one free.

12. We will select an all tournament team and Most Valuable Offensive and Most Valuable Defensive player. Each honoree will receive an award directly following the championship game at C&H. Any all tournament players would be encouraged to stick around so that a picture could be taken directly after the championship.

13. Team trophies will be given out to 1st-4th place finishers at C&H on Saturday.

14. Teams:

 

POOL A - FRANCIS HOWELL, RAY-PEC, SUMMIT, SEDALIA SMITH-COTTON

POOL B - FRANCIS HOWELL CENTRAL, FT. ZUMWALT EAST, VIANNEY, HELIAS

POOL C - FRANCIS HOWELL NORTH, FT. ZUMWALT SOUTH, NORTHWEST, ROCKBRIDGE

POOL D - ST. CHARLES WEST, FT. ZUMWALT WEST, INNISDALE (CANADA), LINDBERGH

 

2009 13TH ANNUAL MIDWEST CLASSIC

MONDAY, MARCH 30

AT C & H

4:00 FT. ZUMWALT EAST vs HELIAS

6:30 NORTHWEST vs FT. ZUMWALT SOUTH

 

AT FRANCIS HOWELL CENTRAL

4:15 FRANCIS HOWELL CENTRAL vs VIANNEY

 

AT FRANCIS HOWELL NORTH

4:00 FRANCIS HOWELL NORTH vs NORTHWEST

 

AT ST. CHARLES WEST

4:15 ST. CHARLES WEST vs LINDBERGH

 

TUESDAY, MARCH 31

AT C & H

4:00 VIANNEY vs FT. ZUMWALT EAST

6:30 ROCKBRIDGE vs FT. ZUMWALT SOUTH

 

AT FRANCIS HOWELL CENTRAL

4:15 FRANCIS HOWELL CENTRAL vs HELIAS

 

AT FRANCIS HOWELL NORTH

4:00 FRANCIS HOWELL NORTH vs ROCKBRIDGE

 

AT ST. CHARLES WEST

4:15 FT. ZUMWALT WEST vs LINDBERGH

 

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1

AT C & H

4:00 SUMMIT vs SEDALIA SMITH-COTTON

6:30 SEDALIA vs FRANCIS HOWELL

 

AT ST. CHARLES WEST

4:15 INNISDALE vs ST. CHARLES WEST

 

THURSDAY, APRIL 2

AT C & H

4:00 FRANCIS HOWELL vs RAY-PEC

6:30 RAY-PEC vs SUMMIT

 

AT ST. CHARLES WEST

4:15 INNISDALE vs FT. ZUMWALT WEST

 

POOL BRACKET RESULTS AND SEEDS

 

CHAMPIONSHIP BRACKET

 

DIRECTIONS TO FIELDS FROM THE HAMPTON INN 3720 WEST CLAY ST. CHARLES, MO 636-947-6800 (OFF OF INTERSTATE 70 AND CAVE SPRINGS)

 

TO FRANCIS HOWELL NORTH

Right out of motel onto West Clay .3
Left on Cave Springs and stay straight, Cave Springs becomes Muegge Rd 2.0
Right on Hackman Rd. .7
Left at stop sign which is still Hackman road and .2 to the school entrance to the right

TO FRANCIS HOWELL CENTRAL
Right out of motel onto West Clay .3
Left onto Cave Springs .3
Right onto Mexico Road 3.3
Left onto Mid Rivers Mall Drive 3.3
Right on Highway N .6
School entrance on the right. Ball field is all the way in the back to the right

TO C&H PARK
Right out of motel onto West Clay .3
Left onto Cave Springs .3
Right onto Mexico Road 3.3
Left onto Mid Rivers Mall Drive 1.1
Left onto St. Peters-Howell Rd 1.7
Ball park entrance is on your right.

TO ST. CHARLES WEST
Left out of motel on West Clay for 1.3
Left on Campus Dr. and go straight, Campus Dr. becomes Zumbehl .6
Right into Stadium, big sign says S.C. West Stadium. Ball field is on the right

 

PAST CHAMPIONS OF THE MIDWEST CLASSIC

1997 JEFFERSON CITY, MO

1998 KANSAS CITY TRUMAN

1999 MOLINE, ILL.

2000 JEFFERSON CITY, MO

2001 NORTHWEST HOUSE SPRINGS, MO

2002 ROCK ISLAND, ILL.

2003 FRANCIS HOWELL, MO

2004 EDWARDSVILLE, ILL.

2005 FRANCIS HOWELL, MO

2006 FRANCIS HOWELL, MO

2007 ST. CHARLES WEST, MO

2008 FRANCIS HOWELL, MO

 

PAST AND PRESENT PARTICIPANTS IN THE MIDWEST CLASSIC

HIGH SCHOOL YEARS PARTICIPATED

 HIGH SCHOOL YEARS PARTICIPATED
   
 BELTON, MO

1
 CAPE GIRARDEAU CENTRAL, MO

1
CHICAGO HARLAN, ILL.

1
 COLLINSVILLE, ILL.

2
 EDWARDSVILLE, ILL.

1
 EUREKA, MO

 3
 FARMINGTON, MO

 9
 FOX, MO

 12
 FRANCIS HOWELL

 13
 FRANCIS HOWELL CENTRAL

 10
 FRANCIS HOWELL NORTH

 13
FORT ZUMWALT EAST

 1
 FORT ZUMWALT SOUTH

2
 FORT ZUMWALT WEST

1
GALESBURG, ILL

 2
HERCULANEUM, MO

 4
 INNISDALE, CANADA

1
WENTZVILLE HOLT, MO

 1
JEFFERSON CITY, MO

 2
KANSAS CITY GRANDVIEW, MO

 4
KANSAS CITY RAY-PEC, MO

 8
KANSAS CITY TRUMAN, MO

 10
LINDBERGH, MO

 5
 MCCLUER NORTH, MO

 4
 MEXICO, MO

 7
 MOLINE, ILL.

 2
 NORTHWEST HOUSE SPRINGS, MO

 13
 OAK GROVE, MO

 1
 ORAN, MO

 2
 PACIFIC, MO

 7
 PARKWAY SOUTH, MO

 2
 RIVERVIEW GARDENS, MO

 1
   
 ROCK ISLAND, ILL.

 3
 ST. CHARLES, MO

 1
 
ST. CHARLES WEST, MO

 8
VIANNEY

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Coach Perkins with his old High School coach Gary Bender, who is retired and is in the Illinois Coaches Hall of Fame. This was in the 1999 tournament and Coach Benders last year as Rock Islands coach.

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