From Al’s Fastball: Boys of Summer 2006

The 6th Annual Boys of Summer Open tournament is ready to announce the field. As posted before this will be a 16 team, 3 diamond, round robin event running July 7-9, 2006.

County Materials-Marathon, WI
Farm Tavern-Madison, WI
Circle Tap-Denmark, WI
Orillia/OwenSound Riversharks-Ontario
Patsy’s-New York, NY
Aspen Black Sox-Saskatoon, SK
SoCal Bombers, Southern Cal
Team Rainey, Whittier, CA
Townline/Shoots- Green Bay, WI
Planggers Furniture, Benton Harbor, MI
Bloomington Stix- IL
Dolan & Murphy- Aurora, IL
Quad City Sox-Davenport, IA
Albaugh Inc-Elkart, IA
Kegel Black Knights-Fargo,
ND IS Knights-Fargo, ND

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Black Bears beef up (for 2006 Canadians)
Article as posted in The Prince George Citizen

Black Bears Beef Up
by TED CLARKE, Citizen staff

“It appears the Prince George Black Bears have added some teeth and a few claws to their fastball den. The hosts of the 2006 Canadian senior men’s fastpitch championship have secured the services national team pitcher Korrey Gareau for the tournament, Aug. 27-Sept. 3 at Spruce City Stadium. Gareau, the top pitcher at the International Softball Congress world championship in 2005 and a three-time first-team all-star in the ISC world event, was announced Thursday as part of the Black Bears team. Gareau, who lives in Victoria, says he’s looking forward to the tournament. He knows what kind of support to expect for the home team, having played for the Prince George Blazers at the 1995 Canadian junior national championship in Prince George. “

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From Al’s Fastball:
Field of Teams Announced for World Fastball Tournament

Monkton, Ont.

It is with great pleasure I announce the eight teams who will compete for the title this June 29 – July 2, 2006 at the World Fastball Invitational in Monkton Ontario.

County Materials
The Farm
Kitchener Hallman Twins
Orillia Riversharks,
Patsy’s – NY
Saskatoon Aspen Black Sox
Midland Explorers and
the Heflin Gremlins.

It goes without saying that the above teams are all “world class organizations”, with the very best players and coaches on the planet, which is what our tourney is all about. We look forward to hosting these teams at the most anticipated tournament of the summer.

Brian Baillie – Chairman
World Fastball Invitational

Editor’s note: You might be looking at 80% of the Top 10 for the first set of ISC World Rankings for 2006. Which teams will round out the Top 10? Or, is there a team in the field at Monkton that will not be in the Top 10 preseason rankings? Post your comments by clicking the comments link at the lower right.