Our 33rd annual Family Ball Tournament will be held on
Friday, August 7th and Saturday, August 8th, 2026
This year’s charity:
TBA
As usual, we will also give other smaller donations to local charities as suggested by you, our families. Please send us suggestions for our smaller charitable donations.
Other important details for 2026:
Our 2026 Family Teams:
Blanchfield, Bracken, Chambers, Churchill, B. Dewan, W. Dewan, Douglas, Downey, Helem/Doyle, Holmes, Kelly, McEvoy, Mussell, Quinn, Rowan, Thompson
FOOD
Sandwiches will be available Friday night and Saturday.
Coffee and donuts will be available Saturday morning.
Tony will also be making breakfast sandwiches again Saturday morning.
Pizza will be available for sale Friday night (9 pm)
The barbecue will have hamburgers and hot dogs from 11 till 6:00 pm on Saturday.
Tony will be cooking (TBA) Saturday evening (8 pm, right before the final game).
BAR
The bar is open from 4 till 11 on Friday night, and from 11 am till midnight on Saturday night.
MVP PRIZES
The MVP prizes will be donated by each family again this year. Please provide an all-ages gift card for $25 as the MVP prize and please get it to Ben and Natasha Chambers by Saturday at noon.
HOME RUN DERBY
The Home Run Derby takes place on Diamond Two at the afternoon break in the schedule, and you can sign up anytime before it begins. Executive Director Christine Tierney needs help to retrieve balls.
KIDS GAME
Executive Director Brad Quinn always needs more volunteers to help him with the game JUST for the little ones. It will be played on Diamond One at the same time as the Home Run Derby. Make sure your young ones know about it, and bring their gloves and running shoes! The kids game is open to anyone who wants to play.
TUNES AND ENTERTAINMENT
Live entertainment all weekend again this year!
Eastbound of Bytown is playing live music from 8 to 11 pm on Friday night.
Clark Thomas will play from 11 am to 1 pm Saturday.
The Two Paddys will play from 3 to 6 pm Saturday.
Brandy n Port is playing from 8 till midnight Saturday night!
KIDS CORNER
Kids Corner is always a hit. Reminder that if you have any older kids who might want to help out please be sure to show them where everything is! Colouring, face painting, games, and of course CANDY!
RAFFLES
We offered some silent auction items as well as the bucket raffle last year and it went great!
A bucket raffle works very easily: you buy a string of double raffle tickets. You separate them and you write your name and phone number on them, and put them in the buckets of the prizes you want to win. If we draw your name, you win the item.
For the silent auction, you bid on the items you want and then the highest bidder wins the item.
We had over 40 prizes last year! Thank you to all who helped us fill our table. We are actively soliciting prizes again for the raffles, so if you know anyone who can donate something please collect it and let us know so we can add it to the master list of prizes. It is very hard to organize last minute additions to the raffle, so please get the item to us before the tournament if possible.
We will also be doing our normal 50/50 draw this year. However, this year we will also be putting names and phone numbers on the 50/50 tickets, so when we draw the winning name, if it’s yours, it’s yours!
FACEBOOK PAGE
Watch for planning and tournament updates on our Facebook page here: https://www.facebook.com/FamilyBallTournament