7 on 7 camp.
We will be doing our first camp preparing for the 2011 season on Saturday October 2nd.  We will be doing this at our Union Gap field and will start at 10am.  Any person wanting to be a part of the Mavericks in 2011 is encouraged to come out and participate.

Golf tournament rescheduled.
Do to a scheduling conflict we are going to have to push back the date of our golf tournament to Sunday October 8th.  We will still be at Suntides and we will still start at 8am but just a little over a month later than originally scheduled.  Please be sure to take  a second and register your team though.  We are not asking for the money until the day of however we would like for you to put your team on paper for us.  To the left you will find the button to do so.  Sorry for any inconvenience....Mavs MGT.

A message from the team owner.
It was brought to our attention last week that in the past when a team forfeits the "winning team" only got 2 points. With that being the case Spokane does have more points than Mavericks, and we will give up the #4 seed that we thought was ours without a protest.

Had Yakima played Columbia Basin I do believe that we would have beat them by the 14 points that a team can earn in one game, and all of this would be easy to figure out and the spot would have been ours. When Columbia Basin let us know that they would not be able to field a team I was under the impression that we would receive 14 points. But we will only get two.

Are we getting short end of the stick? Yes. However if we would have beat Wenatchee, Spokane, or South Sound we would have been in as well.  I still think we have one of the most talented teams in the NW but were not able to pull it all together. We have no one to blame but ourselves.

There are no hard feelings on this end. We would have loved to play Hermiston in two weeks but the rules are rules. On behalf of the Mavericks we wish all the teams in the WFL playoffs good luck and hope that all of you stay healthy.

It will be a busy offseason for the team.  Starting in just a few weeks we will have out team BBQ to finish the season.  We will also be holding our annual golf tournaments, and yard sale to help with fundraising, as well as charity events like our food drive.

We did not finish this season anywhere close to our goals that we set but make no mistake that we will regroup and come out stronger than ever before in 2011. 

Thank you all for all of your help this year,
Nathan Soptich
Owner Yakima Mavericks

Food Drive = SUCCESS
The Mavericks teamed up with NW Harvest on Saturday December 12th to help feed some of the less fortunate people of the Yakima Valley.  Members of the team stood outside in the cold from 9am-5pm gathering food and money to donate to NW Harvest who will inturn distribute the food to local food banks.  The team gathered over 350lbs of food and $82.65 in cash donations (NW Harvest buys and bulk and can turn every dollar into $4.95 worth of food) in what was considered a successful day.  Special thanks to the Mavericks players and staff who came out and braved the cold...

Franklin Jackson, Mick Gause, OJ Davis, Alex Mahre, John Lobbestael, Ryan Wright, John Devolve, Bobby Perez, Tony Armijo, Michael Haggerty, Jesse Cardenas, Ian Zero, Andy Horner, Nick Muir, Robert Pedroza, Devin McDaniel, Coach Don Fortenberry, and GM Nathan Soptich

Another thank you to Coca-Cola of Yakima for printing our banners for the event and Abbotts Printing of Yakima for printing our tickets that we gave away.  Both of these companies did this at no cost to help the effort.