By Kirra Livingstone
THE Suncoast Hinterland Softball Association held their annual Play 4 a Cause (P4AC) Foundation charity masters ladies tournament from January 10-12, and raised roughly $5000 for cancer research.
Association secretary, Karen Robe, said it was a great three days, despite the exhibition match being rained out on the second day.
“We had our three day tournament but the second day was called off at around lunch time because of the rain and it was too unsafe to play in,” she said.
“It was really good otherwise, everyone seemed to enjoy themselves.
“They loved and appreciated that they could continue to play and still got a decent amount of games in.”
Despite the exhibition match being cancelled due to rain, they are planning to reschedule the event this year.
The tournament was split into four divisions with 18 teams in total.
Winners of each division was the Harley Queens for division 2, Geary’s Girls for division 3, Pink Ladies for division 4 and Random As for division 5.
“I think there was one or two new teams, but we were expecting a few more but different things happened but it was really good,” Karen said.
“All the teams are pretty much from Queensland, we had them come all the way from Townsville or Cairns, then all the way out west, Toowoomba, and the south east corner.
“We did also have a few ladies from New South Wales playing for some of the teams.”
Karen added that the association entered a team as well to support the P4AC tournament.
“We had a team playing in division 2, and we actually did really well,” she said.
“We made it to the grand final and obviously didn’t bring home the win, but we came runners up.”
Although the P4AC event did not go ahead last year, the association still managed to raise a commendable $5000 for the charity.
At the 2024 P4AC, the association raised a massive $11,000.