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SOUTH • MISSISSIPPI, NORTH CAROLINA
Destination
BILOXI
Mississippi Gulf Coast Regional CVB
Phone: (228) 896-6699 / Fax: (228) 896-6788
Toll Free: (888) 467-4853
Email: toryeh@gulfcoast.org
Website: www.gulfcoast.org
Contact: Torye Hurst, Director of Sports Marketing
Sport
# of Fields
Lighted
Lgst. #
Contig.
Fields
BASEBALL
50+
50+
10
SOFTBALL
21
15
9
# of Fields
Lgst. Seating Cap.
Youth H.S. College Bleacher Stadium
50+
17
17
Dist. Between
2 Farthest
Fields (mi.)
300
4
300
300
Map
Location
13,500
J11
20
300
# of Metro
Area Rooms
20
Comments: The Mississippi Gulf Coast has facilities to support a wide variety of sports & all the amenities to make your event or tournament the best. The Inaugural Mississippi Gulf Coast Collegiate Classic Softball Classic will
be held Feb. 28-March 2, 2014 at the Gulfport Sportplex featuring 10 college fastpitch teams. A 6,000-seat minor league baseball field is slated to open in Spring 2015.
RIDGELAND
Ridgeland Tourism Commission
Phone: (601) 605-5252 / Fax: (601) 605-5248
Toll Free: (800) 468-6078
Email: mina@visitridgeland.com
Website: www.visitridgeland.com
Contact: Mina Thorgeson, Director of Sales
BASEBALL
14
14
6
SOFTBALL
14
14
14
6
10
14
6,500
I9
10
Comments: Ridgeland, Mississippi has the Art of it All...outstanding service & hospitality. Experience the Ross Barnett Reservoir & the breathtaking beauty of the Natchez Trace Parkway. The city is just across the street from
Mississippiʼs state capital, Jackson, & offers you top-notch sports facilities, a variety of dining venues & accommodations located in the stateʼs premier shopping destination.
SOUTHAVEN
DeSoto County Tourism
Phone: (662) 393-8770 / Fax: (662) 393-8771
Email: margaret@sodesoto.com
Website: www.sodesoto.com
Contact: Margaret Devine, Director of Sales
BASEBALL
43
40
17
SOFTBALL
21
20
8
38
7
19
1
12
4
2,800+
10
I7
Comments: DeSoto County is located in the northwest corner of Mississippi, only minutes from Tunica, MS & Memphis, TN. The LANDERS Center seats 10,000 for indoor & arena events year round. Soccer, softball & baseball
fields including Snowden Grove & Latimer Lakes Parks. 4 golf courses, great restaurants & lodging. Visit www.sodesoto.com or call (662) 393-8770.
NORTH CAROLINA
North Carolina Amateur Sports
Phone: (919) 361-1133 / Fax: (919) 361-2559
Website: www.ncsports.org
Rogers, Arkansas
Rogers Regional Sports Park
Opened: January 2013
Events: Softball and baseball tournaments
Stand-out Features: Six softball fields
with base distances of 60, 65, 70 and 80
feet; six portable mounds to accommodate
baseball tournaments.
FYI: "The new Rogers Regional Sports
Park has been a hit with teams from the
four-state area (Arkansas, Missouri,
Oklahoma and Kansas). The amenities,
concessions, fields, dugouts and score
boxes rival any baseball/softball complex
in the state," said Tony Amone, local tournament director.
Contact:
Frank Adase
Sports Marketing Manager
Rogers CVB
(479) 619-3196
frank@rogerslowell.com
www.rogerslowell.com
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