Does the city of Jackson lack professional sports? The National Pro Fastpitch Association seems to think so with the professional softball team the Colorado Bandits to Jackson, Mississippi and changing the name to the “Jackson Bandits”.
Professional sports are no stranger to the area of Jackson as there used to be a professional hockey team from 1993 to 2003. They played weekly in the coliseum off Mississippi St. There is also a professional minor league baseball team in Pearl who is affiliated with the Atlanta Braves. The Mississippi Braves had a 67-71 record in 2018 and average 2,225 spectators a game.
It appears The Mississippi Braves game has brought a fun atmosphere and family outing but how do the citizens of Jackson feel of the matter?
“I think it would be an awesome experience to get to see girls so much older and more experienced in the game than I am to get to play the game that we all love” Brittany Chetta of Belhaven softball says. “Knowing that we all have that in common, yet we are so different. It would be such a learning experience every time I came and watched them play. It would be so cool.”
Amber Allen of the Jackson community also thinks it would be an awesome thing for the city of Jackson. “There are so many bad things in the news I think this would be something positive and a good think for kids, families or teenagers to get out and do on a weeknight or weekends. My teenage daughter who plays middle school softball is especially excited.”
Belhaven head coach Kevin Griffin is especially excited, “Man, I think it is awesome. This is going to be awesome and such a learning experience for my girls. Hopefully the two of our programs can get together and do a camp and we can learn something good from them. I think this is a good thing for our city and our program because playing softball is often watching and learning.”
The Jackson Bandits look to complete their stadium during the summer of 2019. They will begin practices in fall of 2019 and begin their season in February of 2020.
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