2014 Dixie Youth baseball tournament coming to Franklin County

Franklin County will host the 2014 District 4 Dixie Youth baseball tournament.

Parks and recreation department head Nikki Millender said the announcement was made last week and the Tournament will be coming to Franklin county June 13^th through the 16^th.

Franklin County has also been chosen to host the 2015 Dixie Youth Girls’ softball All Star tournament.

Currently the only park ready to hold large tournaments is the Will Kendrick sports complex in carrabelle, but the county is pushing to upgrade its fields in Eastpoint and Apalachicola.

The DW Wilson Park in Apalachicola needs electronic scoreboards, which would run upwards of 9000 dollars but Miss Millender said she has been working with Waste Pro and Duke energy and hopes to get the costs covered by them.

Vrooman park in Eastpoint is too small to host tournaments at this time, but possibly could be expanded if the county can get neighboring power lines moved or buried.

County commissioners gave Nikki approval to move forward with talks with Duke Energy on the best way to deal with the power line issue. 

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