Ever since the new, improved Ben Bowzer baseball/softball complex opened in 1994 it has been a magnet for the state Babe Ruth association to host tournaments.But this year, for the first time in Lynn Babe Ruth president Jim Beliveau’s memory, the Bowzer Complex, which houses Clancy and Edmunds baseball fields and the Rogato softball field, will host two major tournaments at the same time: The state 15-year-old baseball championships and the U16 New England softball tourney.”This is the first time we’ve done something like this at the same time in the 10 years that I’ve been around Babe Ruth,” said Beliveau. “But we certainly have the facility to do it.”The baseball tournament, which features both Lynn and Saugus, begins Thursday night, with Saugus – which actually won the recently-completed District 1 championship – opening things up with a 5:30 game against Lawrence.Lynn, the tournament’s runner-up, plays Friday (7:45) against Plymouth. Lynn, by virtue of hosting the states, got an automatic berth into the tournament.”Babe Ruth pretty much gave us the option of how we wanted to run this tournament,” said Beliveau, “so we chose to do it over two weekends rather than continuously through the week, because people work, they’re on vacation, and it just seemed better this way.”But that first weekend is going to be hectic, because we’ll have both baseball and softball going on at the same time.”Each weekend’s slate of games will begin on Thursday and end on Sunday, with the finals slated for Aug. 1. On the other hand, the softball tournament will last from Friday to Sunday, with the winner moving on to the Babe Ruth softball World Series.Even though there are two baseball diamonds on the grounds of the Bowzer Complex, Beliveau plans to use only one: Clancy Field, named for former St. Mary’s and Connery Legion baseball coach Nipper Clancy. That is the one in front of the Hit and Run Snack Bar.Edmunds Field, the one closest to Callahan School, will not be used (though the chronic unpredictability of this summer’s weather could possibly force Beliveau to change that plan).The softball tournament presented a bigger challenge, said Beliveau, because Babe Ruth needed two fields to complete the tournament in the prescribed three days. As a result, the Babe Ruth field staff combined with the City of Lynn for a quick makeover of the softball field behind Callahan School.”It was in pretty good shape,” said Beliveau, “because the West Lynn American people took real good care of it.”The city came in and helped scale the infield grass back, and Norm Campbell of Campbell Fence raised the height of the fence to make it tougher to hit home runs.”We couldn’t extend it because there are protected wetlands back there,” said Beliveau, “so raising it was the next best thing.”Logistically, the weekend will involve staffing the snack bar to capacity “as I’m sure it’ll be hopping.”Beliveau said the Babe Ruth organization hinted that it would like at least some of the tournament played at Fraser Field, which was the case last year, but “that’s just too difficult. We’d rather have all our concession stuff here, rather than lugging it all over the place. That gets very difficult.”Both Lynn and Revere will take part in the softball New Englands – Revere having won the state championships, also hosted by Breed, two weekends ago and Lynn having finished second.