PORT ANGELES — The 20th annual and final Larson Invitational men’s softball tournament is scheduled for Saturday and Sunday.
“Probably retiring the tournament after this year,” tournament director Jeff Larson said.
“There will be another tourney at this time next year but it won’t be the Larson Invite.”
Larson also puts on, with his two brothers, the Larson Brothers Coed Classic tournament. That tourney, the fourth annual, was held last weekend.
Like the Coed Classic, the men’s Larson Invite is set for the Shane and Elks playfields.
There will be 18 teams at this weekend’s event, nine from the North Olympic Peninsula and nine from other areas.
Visiting teams will include Mount Vernon, Bremerton, Kirkland and Seattle.
The defending 2012 tourney champion, Domino’s, is back but under a new sponsor, this time the Cafe New Day Redbirds.
The Redbirds could be a little hungry for another title after losing the Port Angeles Parks and Recreation’s men’s Gold Division championship game 14-13 in nine innings to Next Door Gastropub on Wednesday evening.
The tourney opens Saturday with three 9 a.m. games.
Those early contests include G-Loomis against Lincoln Street Coffee Pot at Elks Playfield, All Weather vs. the Elwha Young Gunz at Shane West, and Moose Lodge against Human Debris at Shane East.
Saturday’s round-robin pool play continues through 6:20 p.m., while single-elimination bracket competition starts at 9 a.m. Sunday and continues until the tourney championship game at 4 p.m. Sunday at Shane West.
