NORWICH – The second annual FURY Homerun Blast for Hunger was held over the weekend, and 12 teams from across the state as well as one team from Pennsylvania participated in the softball tournament, which doubled in size since it’s inception last year.

FURY is the Norwich area travel softball team, and the tournament’s host team.

According to tournament director and head coach Rick Condon, the tournament is named so as to encourage and challenge each of the participating teams to bring non-perishable food items that are equal or greater to the number of players on each team. All the donations are then given to Roots and Wings.

“We collected two vehicle loads of items for the cause,” said Condon. “Every team that entered stepped up to the challenge and made this year’s tournament better than last years – which to me is a great success.”

Participating teams traveled from areas including Albany, Syracuse, Utica, Binghamton, and Horseheads.

According to Condon, Charlie Wheeler – assignor for the Binghamton Umpires Association – said it was a great event, one that his officials would like to be assigned again next year.

The tournament winners were the Adirondack Shock from South Glens Falls.

Although FURY did not take home the title of tournament winners, they did beat the CNY Monsters from Syracuse on Sunday – single elimination day – with a score of 8-5 after seven lead changes.