Montana's biggest softball tournament gets underway in Helena

Belgrade Green’s Tayler Thomas pitches against the Bozeman Stealers in Friday’s opening games of the Capital City Classic softball tournament at Batch Fields in Helena. Photo by Gary Marshall, BMGphotos.com

From MT Standard - Summer softball season has arrived in Helena. Just look around.

This weekend, nearly every diamond is full with 10U, 12U and 16/18U club teams playing in the Capital City Classic tournament.

Tournament director Ryan Schulte said it’s the biggest tournament in the state this summer, featuring more than 70 teams from all over Montana, and even a couple from Wyoming and Washington state.

“The people who have run this tournament for a long time have committed to doing it the right way,” Schulte said. “It provides teams with great competition. The gold bracket on Sunday is going to be really, really good.”

But the Capital City Classic isn’t just for teams to make a summer trip to Helena. Area teams such as the 12U Helena Halos and the Montana Warriors are able to compete right in their own home towns.