Pan American Championship of Men’s Fastpitch at Hermosillo, Mexico in November 2011

Information courtesy of Martin Jorge, Softball News Latin America.

Editor’s note: The short version:

A Pan-American Championship of Men’s Fastpitch will be held in Hermosillo, Mexico in November, 2011, subject to final approval of the Mexican Federation of Softball.

To clarify an earlier post, this apparently means a Pan American Championship will be played, but not a “return to the Pan American games scheduled for Guadalajara Mexico in November 2011

Google Translation

In this day began in the city of Valencia the XIV Pan American Softball Congress, attended by 16 countries, as well as the highest authorities of the International Softball Federation. Among the most important issues, it was decided that the next Pan American Men’s Softball Championships are staged in Hermosillo, Mexico, in the first week of November, although this date is tentative, and confirmation subject to approval of the Mexican Federation of Softball.

Jesus Suniaga, president of the Pan American Softball installed today officially left Congress, made in the Oriole Hall of Hotel Don Pelayo. Suniaga was joined at the presidium of the ISF President Don Porter, Meliton Sanchez, an IOC member, Julio Hellburg, Enrique Alcaraz, Alfredo Perez, Andres Montes Chavero, Ivan Briceno and Maria Soto, representative of the athletes to the International Federation Softball.

The agenda began with words of Jesus Suniaga, and a speech of welcome from Don Porter. Besides the financial report was presented by Ivan Briceno, the report of the championships and sports activities, venues and applications for the update on the implementation of the Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico 2011.

The extraordinary meeting was very motivated and the most debated point was the exclusion of men’s softball concert by the Pan American Sports Organization, which operates Jose Vasquez Rana.

After several exhibitions and demonstrations of support for the campaign to return discipline to the Pan American Games, was found to hold Men’s Pan American Championships in Hermosillo, Mexico, with a tentative date for the first week of November. This event will be attended by at least eight or ten countries, which are Argentina, Bahamas, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Colombia, Cuba, Panama, United States, Canada, Aruba, Venezuela and Mexico.

At the Pan American Congress, second that was made official in Valencia, Venezuela, attended Jacinto mark the Cyprian (Argentina) Endy Croes (Aruba) Diane Miller (Bahamas) Nelson Hideo Yajima (Brazil) Kelvin Quinn (Canada), Roberto Castro (Costa Rica), Javier Anaya ( Colombia) Miguel Acosta Serrano (Cuba) Amilcar Estrada (Guatemala) Nicky Medina (Ecuador), Jose Tavarez (Dominican Republic) Juan Manuel Arambula (Mexico) Warren Jones (USA) Danilo Velasco (Panama) Felix Matthias (Puerto Rico) and David Jacinto Amaíz, and Venezuela. Also present were Carlos Lopez (Puerto Rico) CONCACAS president, Roberto Castro (Costa Rica) President Concasoft and Antonio Morales (Colombia).