Freedom Tour 2008 Sports Ministry
Men’s Softball Tournament
Sponsored by Team Vision
August 2
Lyle Hansberger Sportsplex in Pontotoc
(fields are small but sure is fun playing there)
E teams/Church teams/Rec teams
ASA bats ASA rules no stealing
44/375 balls
5 hr then out
Entry Fee: $50 donation + $150 entry fee = $200
1 ASA ump per field
2 ASA umps championship game
1 hour time limit
Can bat 12
$50 donation will go toward our Freedom Tour Mission Trip
Prize package: Will post later. Still working on.
Goal is for 20 teams.
4 game pool type play
Top 10 teams in upper single elimination bracket. Prizes to top 2 teams.
Bottom 10 teams in lower single elimination bracket. Prizes to top 2 teams.
5 game min. 8 game max.
8 teams committed so far (5 more getting back with me)
This tournament is not about putting money in our pocket. Not 1 penny of this money will be used for personal use by any member of Team Vision. All profit will be used in the ministry of Team Vision Sports Ministry.


Contact:
Johnny Adams Home 662-257-9252 Cell 662-401-1086 Work 662-840-5740
Gary Haycraft 662-213-6928
Dexter Goode 662-315-6759

I will need to personally talk to each team coach before they can enter.
Leave name/number and I will call you or call me at the numbers above. If I don't talk to you, your team will not be entered.


America today faces a mounting prison crisis. The federal, state, and local institutions that seek to bring about rehabilitation have not been successful. Why? Before a man can be truly rehabilitated, he must first be regenerated. The changed life must start from within. It must start with a new life that can only come through Jesus Christ! Team Vision Sports Ministry endeavors to reach these men with the life-changing message of Jesus Christ through sports. Studies show that 80% of all prisoners refuse to attend a conventional religious program such as a chapel service or Bible study. However, they will gladly attend a sporting event at which the gospel is shared. Team Vision athletes minister seasonally through softball in Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, and Florida. Since 2004, Team Vision has played more than 200 games in over 18 different prisons in 4 states and two countries. The idea for Team Vision came in 2004 when Johnny Adams was asked to play “Prison Ball” in Atmore, AL by Ron Hock (National Direction of Christians In Actions Softball Prison Ministry). Johnny came home from that tour a different person. He surrendered his life to God in the Ministry through sports. His first prison tour was Parchman, MS. Team Vision played 7 games that day and saw 44 men give their lives to God. Every year since, Team Vision Sports Ministry has grown. Mission Statement: Too present the Gospel of Jesus Christ to prisoners through softball. Vision Statement: Too spread the Gospel through the use of sports. As a group, to grow in God’s Word, thus changing our lives, our families, our church, our community, and the world.

There are a couple of teams I am trying to get in touch with. Hope someone can help.

1) The old NC braves team. I think Sam is playing with them. We played against them in the MS Phantoms tourney in Amory.
2) The Young Guns team from the Olive Branch area.
3) Hot Heads

UPDATE:

I know this tourney is 3 weeks away but wanted to update the staus of the entrants. We have 11 comitted and 6 getting back with their teams. We are cutting off at 20 teams.

Johnny Adams
662-401-1086

So there is no D teams in this?

I don't think any of the teams are going D this year. Call with any questions.

Johnny Adams
662-401-1086

We now have 12 committed and 6 getting back to us.

Johnny Adams
662-401-1086

I would like to say thanks to Chad Hall for donating a bat to the ministry for this tournament. If any of you guys need some sports equipment, give Chad a call. He can hook you up with anything from bats to uniforms for some really good prices.

Remember this is a 4 game pool type play. Then the upper 10 teams will form an upper tourney, and the lower 10 teams will form a lower tourney.

Upper prize package:
1st-Red and Black 27 oz Mayhem. Championship shirts. Trophy.
2nd-Runner up shirts. Trophy.

Lower prize package:
1st-Red and Black 27 oz Mayhem. Championship shirts. Trophy.
2nd-Runner up shirts. Trophy.

Johnny Adams
662-401-1086

any update on this tournament?

13 teams entered.

14 teams now entered.

15 teams entered.

can we get a list of teams

Why do you want a list of teams,so you can run to another tourney.I would not list any teams on here because teams will run from a little comp.

I will list the teams 1 or 2 days before the tourney.

But, there are 5 openings left. If any of you guys are planning to get in, I would recommend to get with your team and make a decision. Hopefully, the tourney will be full after this weekend.

Johnny

Will you be playing on all four fields?

I would like to thank all the teams for committing this early to our tournament. If anyone has questions about this ministry please call. I would love to share about it.

We now have 17 teams committed to the tourney.

We will play on all 4 fields.

Johnny Adams
Team Vision

is fusion in this one

Yes. Fusion is in.

Johnny

GENTLEMEN SHOULD BE A GOOD ONE WE GET TO PLAY BUCK BALL

make it a single them are some short ball feilds (after you hit your 5)

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We still have a few openings.

I was going to wait till next week but I have talked to these teams in the past week. Here is a list of teams committed to the tourney. Welcome to the tourney:

Team Vision
Team Fusion
F & M Bank
Good Ole Boys
MS Electric
Halls Contracting
MS Phantoms
Young Guns
By Faith Baptist Church
Tri-State
Old School
Flat City
Team Shade Tree



These teams comitted a few weeks ago but I have been unable to get in contact with them.
Breazeale Logging
Southern Impact
Brad Taylor



There is another team wanting to play but they are a few guys short. Any interest, shoot me an email: ja0840@att.com



We had one team that dropped due to a youth mission trip.



Johnny Adams
662-401-1086

5hr and single is that what your going to do that would be sweet.

do you have any room left

Yes, we do have spots open.

Welcome to the Freedom Tour...Team Black Sheep.

Welcome to the Freedom Tour...Team Lock Down.

Put TOYOTO IN!!!

Please take Toyota out.. sorry, we are in another tournament.

Ms Phantoms, why are u even wasting your time AND your money?

its there time and money let them choose where they want to play and it dnt hurt. this is for a great cause anyway

Welcome to the Freedom Tour...Team Toyota.

Team Toyota has decided to support a different cause. They are no longer in our tourney.

Top 3 in this one.

MS Electric
Halls Contracting
Team Vision

MS Phantoms has decided to drop out. They are no longer in our tourney.

did you not read the entire list of teams or what

Does anyone know Black Sheep, Shadetree, or Flat City

do u need from shade tree for something

TEAM LOCKDOWN WINS THIS EASY

Halls, you going down.

JJ, sure hate your not going to be on the field. You gona miss out on a lot of hits going by. See you guys Saturday.

JA

I think halls has a good chance of winning this one.

heard tidwell is in this on is it ture

For those who have never been to this complex, it is very nice. It actually has airconditioned bathrooms. They just put netting up around the center of the complex to keep the balls from hitting people watching the game. Grass infields that are awesome. I remember last time I was there one of the fields had a lot of sand and didn't play well. They actually dug that infield out and replaced it. Now, they are building a men's complex right beside it that will mostlikely be as nice as this one.

We still have openings.

Johnny Adams
662-401-1086

vision doesnt stand a chance against lockdown!!! as small as the fields are lockdown is gonna have a field day

heard that team lockdown was really Team Mayhem

Did you really just make that statement? Their name now is Team Lockdown/Mayhem. Come on guys, use a little common sense.

@$&% OFF AND GO PLAY SOMEWHERE ELSE......................

Black Sheep is a team from the Falkner/Ripley area, Shade tree is a group of good guys from around Falkner I believe and Flat City is a new team that was thrown together this year from around Hickory Flat, they are pretty good. All three of these teams were in that big tourney we were in at falkner.

Are there any spots left in this tourny? And when is the latest a team can enter? We are trying to get up enough to come play.

Can you please add OTG to this tournament
contact info Chris # 731-610-5434

WHAT HAPPEND OTG GET SCARED OF BOONEVILLE TOURNY. SAW WHERE YALL DROPED OUT COMP TO MUCH FOR YA...........................

who is otg. you gotta call and talk to mr. adams

We did call him

Just called all coaches. Was not able to get in touch with one of the teams. Call me please. I want to update you on the tourney. See everyone Saturday morning. We will take teams up till tomorrow night or until full. Thanks everyone for all your help. Gonna be an awesome tourney.

And who knows, we may just give LockDown more than they expect, lol. Call me Wesley...

Johnny Adams

Going to church now.

662-401-1086

Wesley Who?

Mr. Adams dont know if u said it or not but someone post that it was gonna be 5 HRs then a single instead of an out i dnt care was just curious what u had to say on that

All this Lockdown talk is not our guys because we don't talk trash on the message boards. We are bringing pick up team because alot of our guys are at the beach. We are looking to have fun and play some ball and support a good cause. Good luck to everyone see you saturday.

The tourney is 5 hr and an out. That will hold through all pool play/round robin.

Once we get to the single elimination game, if both teams want to change it, I will not have a problem because it will not affect any other team. If you win, you advance. If you loose, you go home. But both teams have to agree. There will not be any changes in the tourney that will affect other teams.

If both teams want to change the home run limit in the pool play/round robin, it will not be allowed. That has an affect on the ranking.

Any questions, please call.

Johnny Adams
662-401-1086

Lockdown better not bring d and c players cause you will go home! he will not let you play.

Lockdown is a D team. That's just stupid to say that a team doesn't need to bring D and C players. Man up and play someone. Where did this tournament say that it was E class teams only?

I don't have a dog in this race but it does say E teams, church teams, and rec teams only up top

who cares...its to support a good cause so it shouldnt matter if team demarini wants to come play...besides lockdown isnt the only d class team in this one

but if your going to give 5 hr then it should not just be open to E teams E class has 0 hr end is inning ending

The people talking obviously haven't seen us play! Alabama just started E this year so we play D. It is our first year together, we are young guys and dont have anyone on our team who has ever played C! We actually had to pick up 4 guys to make 10 and I know 3 of them haven't played this year! We are just trying to have fun because we have been playing in state tournaments all last months so we are burned out. Good luck to all the teams and maybe we can raise alot of money for a good ministry.

There is a 5 hr limit due to the short fields. It has nothing to do with E class --- C class...

I have not let any upper teams in. LockDown could win the tourney but so could we, or MS Electric, or Halls, or.... And besides, they are a great group of guys. If I thought they would walk through this tourney, I would not have let them in. Hope I didn't insult LockDown or any of the teams in the tourney. There are a number of teams who have a shot at winning the upper. And besides, were giving away 2 bats. One for upper and one for lower.

And yes, LockDown is/was D class but that is because last year D was the lowest class in AL. I believe that is right. I am sure someone will correct me if I'm not.


But, I will be taking teams till tonight. This has turned out to be a great tourney. I hope that if you haven't gotten in a tourney, you would consider this one. Even if you had gotten in, then later dropped, just call. We would love to have you.

Johnny Adams
662-840-5740 work
662-401-1086 home

We have 13 teams. I have spoken to all coaches and will let them know there game times tonight. We still have room for more teams. It looks like the tourney will start either at 8:30 or 9:00 Saturday morning. We will be using the 3 biggest fields. If 3 more teams get in, we will use the 4th field. I will not be able to add teams after the first game times have been given.

Anyone know what Proverbs 27:17 says? You will see it this weekend in Pontotoc.

Thanks to all teams.

Johnny Adams
662-401-1086

8:30 MS Electric
8:30 Halls
8:30 Team Vision
8:30 Flat City
8:30 Team Fusion
8:30 Black Sheep

9:30 Lock Down
9:30 Young Guns
9:30 Team Shade Tree
9:30 OTG
9:30 Old School
9:30 By Faith Baptist Church

10:30 F & M Bank

I was not able to get in touch with Young Guns. Hope someone can help get word to them.

Looking forward to an awesome tourney.

Johnny Adams
662-401-1086

johnny is there any way you can post the pools..?

How small are the fields?

I think fields are 270 in center and 265 down the lines

275 dead center

There are no pools in this tourney. I hope I do a good job of explaining this. With the help of other coaches and players, I had all teams ranked. With that ranking, each team was applied points. Rank 1 go 1 point, Rank 13 got 13 points. So, each game that is played has points contributed to it due to each team having points per the ranking. After each team plays 4 games, we tried to have each team will as equal as possible scores. Now, the rest I will have to explain in person. But maybe that will help.

I will have a full listing of the tourney at the concession stand. I just don't have the time to type it out here. I tried copy/paste but the format in excel didn't work here.

Our goal was for this tourney to be as equal as possible, but we can only get close, not perfect.

But, there will be 7 in the upper and 6 in the lower at the end. Eventhough we didn't get 20 teams we made a committment with the prizes and the prizes still are bats, shirts, and trophies. $1200 in prizes with on 13 teams. And ASA umps.

See you guys in the morning.

Johnny Adams
662-401-1086

One field is 275.
The other 2 fields are 265.
I think this is right.

We will not use the 4th.

JA

It looks like you are doing the best you can, good luck...Can't complain with the prize package with only 13 teams

Johnny you are doing a good job.I will see you there need you to show me how to hit bombs. RAY RAY

lol...show you how to hit bombs. Now thats funny. I'm ready for us (along with some others) to put on a show for all those inmates during the Freedom Tour. Just think, maybe we can hit some toward MS and some of these guys around here playing may catch it. lol.

Now for the best part of Freedom Tour, not just seeing God at work, be being used by God to do the work. AWESOME...

RayRay, see you, Rick, Chris and others at 8:30.

I am planning to have some kind of paper at the concession stand for predictions...just an idea...maybe give some form of prize to whomever gets the winners right. But, of course, my first prediction is..........

TEAM VISION

all the way. lol.

See all in the morning.

Call my cell if you have trouble getting to the field.

Johnny Adams
662-401-1086

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