Fun things to do May 2nd and 3rd

Something Fun For this weekend: May 2nd and 3rd

SOCCER FEST AT RUDD FIELD UMASS: Friday, Saturday, and Sunday Look at what fun there is for FANS. CLICK HERE

League of Women Voters Book Sale: For more information CLICK HERE

18TH ANNUAL AMHERST ULTIMATE INVITATIONAL TOURNAMENT
May 2-3, 2009 Amherst, Massachusetts.

The 18th Annual Amherst Ultimate Invitational Tournament will be hosted by Amherst Regional High School (ARHS) and will take place on Saturday and Sunday May 2-3, 2009. The Tournament will be held at the Ultimate fields at ARHS and Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts.

Thirty high school teams from New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Connecticut, and Massachusetts will compete in one of the largest and most prestigious Ultimate tournaments in the country. Last year’s champions, Columbia High School (New Jersey) and Andover High School (Massachusetts) will return to defend their titles. The ARHS Boys team enters the tournament with a 15-1 record.

On Saturday, games will be played from 9:45am to 5pm at both venues; on Sunday, games will run from 8am to 4:30pm at ARHS. The Tournament will once again be divided into three groups: Girls, and Boys A & B Divisions. The Girls Division and Boys B Division finals will be played Sunday at 1:15pm in Amherst.

The Boys Division A final will be played Sunday at 3pm in Amherst.
Combining the non-stop movement and athletic endurance of soccer with the aerial passing skills of football, a game of Ultimate is played by two seven-player squads with a high-tech plastic disc on a field similar to football.

Amherst is steeped in the history of Ultimate, acknowledged to be to be the birthplace of the sport by an Amherst College student in 1967. Ultimate has grown precipitously over the following 40 years to over 4.9 million competitive Ultimate players around the world (2008). Amherst coaches Tiina Booth and Jim Pistrang formed some of the first competitive teams in the country in the 1970s.

ARHS last won the national Ultimate championship in 2004. Another entry in the tournament will be Columbia High School from new Jersey, which was the first high school Ultimate team ever founded.
For schedules, times, locations, and much more information on the tournament, see: http://www.amherstultimate.org/ai/2009