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State soccer tourney bringing thousands to Bulloch
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Local tourism promoters and hospitality businesses hope that the Georgia Soccer State Cup Final Four, expected to bring nearly 2,500 people to Statesboro the last weekend in May, is a foretaste of more late-spring and summer sports events in the future. The seasonal timing helped sell the idea of bidding for the youth soccer championship in the community, as Statesboro Convention and Visitors Bureau President Darin Van Tassell and Executive Director Heidi Jeffers explained in an interview. "We all know we're a classic college town and summers slow down," Van Tassell said, "and maybe this is an angle where the CVB can help on the sports tourism side."
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