Sox have 50 teams registered for April 1-2 baseball tournament

10U Sox 04 — The Stephenville Sox baseball organization will comprise five of the 26 teams competing in the summer version of Baseball on the Bosque Saturday and Sunday at Stephenville City Park and at James T. Young Field behind Stephenville High School. || File photo from previous Baseball on the Bosque event

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STEPHENVILLE (March 13, 2017) — The Stephenville Sox Baseball Organization is hosting its 4^th Annual “On the Bosque” Baseball tournament in Stephenville April 1-2.

The Stephenville Sox organization hosted its first tournament in Stephenville in the Spring of 2011 which featured just 6 teams. There are currently 50 baseball teams entered in this year’s tournament in the 9U-14U age divisions.

This event will bring an estimated 1,800-2,000 people into our community for the Saturday-Sunday event. Teams from Dallas, Waco, San Angelo, Abilene, Sweetwater, Wichita Falls and everywhere between will be playing in this baseball tournament.

Games will begin Saturday morning, April 1, at 8am, and run through Saturday night until 10pm. Sunday games will again begin at 8am with each age division competing a single-elimination style tournament and champions and finalists to be determined at the end of the day. Champions and finalists will receive “rings.”

The Stephenville Sox baseball organization plays travel baseball tournaments throughout the spring and has met a lot of coaches, teams and select baseball organizations since beginning in the Fall of 2009.

They have had successful teams throughout the years, winning qualifying and state tournaments and becoming finalists in the 2012 Super Series World Series in the Majors Division. The Sox organization currently has 74 players competing on seven teams all around Texas.

“Hosting a tournament here in Stephenville with an estimated eighteen hundred to two thousand people is a way for us to thank the businesses in Stephenville who have helped support us through the years,” said Sox manager Keith Philips. “I have lived in Stephenville all my life and believe this will be the biggest baseball event to ever be hosted here. Stephenville is a great centralized location because teams from the north, south, east and west can all travel to Stephenville and play teams they normally wouldn’t get to see.”

The “On the Bosque” tournament last spring brought in 35 teams, so already 15 more are registered for the upcoming event.

“With 50 teams, that’s about 600 kids, and you have to estimate three people per kid when you’re talking about families coming along,” said Philips. “This season, it’s much larger, so we’re hoping for good weather, good baseball and a good boost to the local economy by drawing all these people to Stephenville.”