SIDNEY, NE  — Several youth baseball teams from around the region are in Sidney for the Wood Bat Tournament. 

Over 30 games will be played in Sidney's Legion Park on Friday and Saturday and that's just pool play. 

Several towns from the Panhandle, southwest Nebraska, northeast Colorado and eastern Wyoming are represented in this year's tournament. Check out the video above for sights and sounds of the Friday games that got the tournament underway. Contests featured in the video include Sidney 12 vs Alliance 12, Caliche vs Plainsmen and Alliance 11 vs Brush.