THE inaugural One Guyana Berbice Softball Cup is set for Sunday at the Port Mourant Community Centre Ground, starting at 9:00 hours.

The one-day tournament is being organised by the newly formed R.S. Sports in association with the City Star Softball Team of Port Mourant and Roraima Developers. City Star softball team, earlier in the year, sealed the top spot to represent Region 6 in the tournament.

According to officials, the One Guyana Berbice Softball Cup comes after the successful hosting of the inaugural Inter-Region Ten10 Softball Cricket Cup in April which saw Hyde Park Outlaws of Region 3 walk away with the championship and the RCD Region 3 Softball Cup which was also won by Hyde Park Outlaws.

Coordinator Abel Setaram disclosed that Roraima Developers feels that softball cricket is the grassroots cricket that leads players to other formats or stages of the game.

The tournament will be based on a one-game knock-out format with round-arm bowling being used and will be ten overs per side affair. It’s open to male and female teams in the Open category.

At stake are lucrative cash incentives, trophies and other prizes. Prizes will be awarded to the winners, runners-up, Most Valuable Player (MVP), player with the best bowling figures in an innings, player with the highest score in an innings and player of the finals. The player of the match in each game will also be recipient of a trophy in both the male and female categories.

Meanwhile, Trophy Stall, through its proprietor Ramesh Sunich, has agreed to sponsor the first, second and third place trophies for both the male and female categories. The trophies were handed over to Seetaram at the Trophy Stall Berbice location, Port Mourant on Thursday.

Other sponsors on board are ECS, DBL Group, Regal Stationery & Computer Centre, PT Hatchery, Dr. Vanooten, Ashiek Motor Spares, BCCI, 4S Security, Money Tree Trading, Rorima Developers and Cardinal Enterprise.

The organisers also plan to have lots of side attractions, giveaways and entertainment for fans.