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Sunday Games on ISC-TV – ISC World Day 3

Saturday, August 11th, 2007


Three games on Sunday, August 12, 2007, from Kitchener, Ontario, Canada get underway today, with the following broadcasts:

Schedule * NOTE:
ALL GAME TIMES ARE EASTERN STANDARD TIME ZONE (EST) *

Sun 8/12 4:00 PM Orillia Riversharks Vs Midland Explorers
Sun 8/12 6:00 PM Winner’s Bracket Game # 21
Sun 8/12 8:00 PM Winner’s Bracket Game # 22

That’s 1pm, 3pm and 5pm for West Coast fans, those in between, adjust accordingly.

To view the games live, go to www.sportsjuice.com
or click the link on the ISC Home Page at www.iscfastpitch.com

* Important note * – There IS a separate audio feed for those people on dial-up that cannot get the video feed, or for those people who are working, but can’t be caught watching the video 🙂

Important Tech Advice to Enhance Your Viewing Experience:

Below are two hugely Important tips for improving the live streaming video performance in the Windows Media Player.

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Z, Manley Toss Gems as # 1 Broken Bow Escapes with 1-0 Victory

Saturday, August 11th, 2007

It was only fitting — Opening night of the 2007 ISC World Tournament, playing to a packed house — star of the last two decades — Darren Zack vs. star of the present, Jeremy Manley. Horse Lake Thunder may have come in to the game unranked, against the # 1 team in the world, but Horse Lake had the Z-man, and Darren showed that he is still capable of beating the best in the world.

Zack and Manley traded zeroes for 5 2/3 innings, until Horse Lake error in the bottom of the 6th proved costly, turning a Rhys Casley base hit into a 1-0 victory for Broken Bow, who escaped with their seeding and ranking intact, but knowing how close they came to falling into the loser’s bracket. The large crowd stayed past midnight. As they filed out, they surely talked about the gem they had witnessed. Jeremy Manley looked unhittable at times, his rise ball exploding up, and his change up better than ever, striking out 18. But on this night, many in the crowd rooted for the upset, they rooted for the living legend, and rooted for Z.

Click here for the box score and play-by-play.

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Vancouver 7-0 Winner in ISC Opener

Saturday, August 11th, 2007

The Vancouver Grey Sox cruised to a 7-0 win over Peterborough Ontario. Scott Newitt homered, Derek Mayson was 2-3 with 2 runs scored, while Trevor Johnston drove in two runs. Nick Underhill tossed a 2-hitter, striking out 8.

Click here for the box score and play-by-play.

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Portland Wins Opener 1-0

Saturday, August 11th, 2007

Portland DeMarini notched a win in their ISC World Opener, 1-0, on a Todd Garcia RBI in the first inning. Portland will now take on The Farm, who drew a first round bye. The lone run came when Brian Ree struck out, but reached first on a wild pitch, advanced to second on a passed ball, scoring on Garcia’s two out RBI single. Portland pitcher Bricklen Anderson pitched 6 shutout innings, surrendering but 3 hits while striking out 10, getting relief help from Mike Piechnik in the 7th, while Dolan & Murphy’s Juan Potlicchio was the hard luck losers, yielding only 4 hits and striking out 11.


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ISC World Tournament – Day 1 – Aug 10

Saturday, August 11th, 2007

Results from Day 1, Friday, August 10, 2007:

Winners:
Scarborough Royals
Albaugh, IA
Orillia Riversharks
Aspen Interiors


Losers:
Thomson Area Merchants
St. Thomas Evergreen Centennials
Midwest Stampede
Jarvis Merchants

For all the details, and results for today which are being updated regularly, click the ISC Fastball logo above, and/or see Al’s Fastball at http://www.alsfastball.com

Click here for direct link to Al Doran’s ISC World Tournament SCOREBOARD.

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East Hants Done, Quebec Moves On

Saturday, August 11th, 2007

Continued great reporting of the Canadian Jr. Championships, from Pat Healey via

LeClair mows down 14 as Quebec moves on; East Hants eliminated

BY PAT HEALEY
MEDIA OFFICER

SUMMERSIDE – Quebec pitcher Francis LeClair had the East Hants Henchmen batters mesmerized Saturday morning in the first placement game, mowing down The game featured just three hits between the two teams and a total of 23 strikeouts- 14 by LeClair and saw the game’s only run score as a result of a Mathieu Benoit RBI single in the bottom of the fourth inning. “We’re hoping to do the same as last year,” LeClair said, noting Quebec won three times in 2006 on Saturday to make it to Sunday action.

“It’s a hard way to do it, but it’s the only way for us to get there.” East Hants did have their chances, stranding seven bases runners – including leaving the bases juiced in top of the fourth- compared to Quebec, who had just three runners left on base. David LeClair had the other Quebec hit. Aaron Harvey had the Henchmen’s lone hit. Cory Avery went the distance in suffering the loss in the pitcher’s duel, walking two and striking out nine. Quebec will now face Elmira Advance Millwright at 1 pm in the playoff round.. Both teams need to win to continue playing on.

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60th ISC World Tournament Gets Underway Today

Friday, August 10th, 2007


(click photo to go to official ISCfastpitch.com website)

The 60th Annual ISC World Tournament gets underway in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, pitting the 32 best teams in the world. Today’s games get underway at 4pm EST (1pm for those of us on the west coast).

Today’s Schedule of Games, Friday, August 10

4:00pm Gm 1
Scarborough Royals vs. Thompson Area Merchants

6:00pm Gm 2
Albaugh Inc vs. St Thomas Evergreen Centennials

8:00pm Gm 3
Orillia Riversharks vs. Midwest Stampede

10:00pm Gm 4
Jarvis Merchants vs. Aspen Interiors

That Albaugh game at 6pm (3pm here in California) involves So Cal pitcher, Sonny Perkins. His team hails from Elkhart, IA.

The Thomson Area Merchants, IL, who get the honors of playing in the opener, competed in the ISC II division last year, moving up in class, and finishing strong in their 2007 season at the open level.

The Orillia Riversharkswill be the highest ranked team playing on Day 1. The ‘Sharks held the # 1 ranking for a good part of the year, finishing up at # 3 in the world. They finished 3rd in the recent ASA Major Nationals, behind # 2 Patsy’s and # 6 The Farm.

Al Doran of Al’s Fastball fame will be on hand from the first pitch to the last, and keeping all of us posted on the games throughout the tournament. I heard from him yesterday, as he was setting up shop in his “ergo” chair that will be home for the next 9 days. Read his pre-tournament post, “Peter Hallman Ballyard Ready To Go” at his website, Al’s Fastball for a preview of what is to come, including the exciting news that Rogers Cable in Canada will be televising 6 of the games, combined with David Blackburn’s “ISC-TV” streaming video program that will bring us live video of twenty — count ’em 20! games.

Here is the list of teams entered:

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NAFA Announces First Round Games for A-Major, AA and AA-Major

Friday, August 10th, 2007

[Des Moines, Iowa] – First round games times for the first weekend of play at the 2007 NAFA World Series in Des Moines Iowa are now posted, as well as they bracket for the Class AA-Major tournament.

Information for each class can be found at the following links:

Class A-Major
Class AA
Class AA-Major

For all information and results for the 2007 NAFA World Series, make sure to visit the website at http://www.2007ws.nafafastpitch.com.

Brett Bresnahan
NAFA Webmaster
breshz(at)minnesotafastpitch.com
http://www.2007ws.nafafastpitch.com
http://www.nafafastpitch.com
http://www.minnesotafastpitch.com

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Tough test awaits Explorers at ISC World Tournament

Thursday, August 9th, 2007

From:

(click logo for original article)

Around the Horn: Tough test awaits Explorers at ISC World Tournament
By Greg Chalfin

The final tournament of the fastpitch softball season awaits the No. 13 Midland Explorers in this weekend’s ISC World Tournament held in Kitchener, Ont.

Another tough draw awaits them too.

As at last weekend’s ASA Men’s Major Fastpitch tournament, the Explorers find a potential second-round matchup with the No. 3 Orillia Quaker Riversharks a distinct possibility.

At the ASA tournament, Orillia defeated Midland 3-0 in the second round and held the Explorers to just three hits.

“It really doesn’t matter because you have to play everybody to win (the tournament),” Explorers’ manager Clint Beane said. “We played them really well (last) Thursday night. Hopefully, we hit a little better.”

Midland responded at the ASA tournament with six consecutive wins through the losers’ bracket before finally falling to No. 8 Circle Tap. But as much success as they had facing elimination, Beane said it would be “a big lift” to get past Orillia in the second round.

“We played really well against those top teams,” Beane said. “We just haven’t broken through.”

Midland will have to find a way to beat top teams this weekend if it’s going to have success. Each of the 12 teams ranked ahead of them are in the 30- team field.

Beane added that the ISC’s prestige comes from the level of competition combined with the tournament’s atmosphere.

“The fan base is unreal as far as the ISC goes,” Beane said.

The Explorers had their worst finish since 1989 at last year’s ISC World Tournament, finishing 22nd, but Beane expects the team to respond to last year’s disappointing finish.

“The bounce back is to win that second game,” Beane said. “You’ve got to kind of stay in that winners’ bracket.”

Midland opens against unranked Napanee at 1 p.m. Saturday. The tournament continues through Aug. 18.

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2007 Deadline for Largest Ever Men’s Masters World Series Nearing (Aug 13)

Thursday, August 9th, 2007

2007 NAFA Masters World Series in Rockford, Illinois Sept. 8-9 and for Carson City, Nevada
Sept 15-16.

The entry deadline for your entry fee and entry form to be mailed to us is August 13th so that we can prepare start times and email those to the coaches as soon as possible.

I have put an entry form at the bottom of this email for your convenience. There are no Friday games so every team should be prepared to play at 8 am Saturday morning. Our goal for championship games was 3pm but some divisions are so large that we may need the 4:45 round if people don’t have to fly out. If they have already made plane reservations then we will work it out.

Over the last 5 days we have had several entries by email and phone especially for Rockford and if your name is not listed here, email us and we will add it or if your name or city is wrong email us back. Please forward this info to other teams that you know may be interested in articipating.

The following teams have verbally committed to play in the 2007

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