Senior Major event moved from OKC to North Carolina

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. - The Amateur Softball Association (ASA) announced today that the Senior Major Plus event originally scheduled for Labor Day weekend in Oklahoma City has been combined with the Senior Slow Pitch National Championships in Burlington, N.C. 

The event in Oklahoma City included Men's Senior 50 Major Plus Slow Pitch, Men's Senior Class 60 Major Plus Slow Pitch, Men's Senior 65 Major Plus Slow Pitch, Men's Senior 55 Major Plus Slow Pitch, Men's Senior 60 Major Plus Slow Pitch, Men's Senior 65 Major Plus Slow Pitch and Men's Senior 50 Major Plus Slow Pitch. These National Championships will now join the 20 plus divisions that are competing for a National Championship in Burlington, N.C. 

Visit www.burlingtonnc.gov/index.aspx?NID=730 or www.asasoftball.com for information on these tournaments. 

About ASA 

The Amateur Softball Association, founded in 1933, is the National Governing Body of softball in the United States and a member of the United States Olympic Committee. The ASA has become one of the nation’s largest sports organizations and now sanctions competition in every state through a network of 83 local associations. The ASA has grown from a few hundred teams in the early days to over 210,000 teams today, representing a membership of more than three million. For more information on the ASA, visit http://www.asasoftball.com/. 

About USA Softball 

USA Softball is the brand created, operated and owned by the ASA that links the USA Men’s, Women’s, Junior Boys’ and Junior Girls’ National Team programs together. USA Softball is responsible for training, equipping and promoting these four National Teams to compete in international and domestic competitions. The USA Softball Women’s National Team is one of the only two women’s sports involved in the Olympic movement to capture three consecutive gold medals at the Olympic Games since 1996. The U.S. women have also won eight World Championship titles including the last six consecutive as well as claimed two World Cup of Softball titles. For more information about USA Softball, please visit http://www.usasoftball.com/.