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“Red Rock Ends With a Twist”

Thursday, May 26th, 2005

We have posted our feature story on the 2005 Red Rock Tournament, “Red Rock Ends With a Twist”,

We are pleased to advise that it will appear, along with photos, in next month’s issue of Softball Magazine. (print edition).

For convenience, you may also read it here:

Red Rock Ends with a Twist

[ST. GEORGE, UT-5/12/05]-Now in its sixth year, the Red Rock Tournament at the Canyons Complex in St. George, Utah has become one of the premier events west of the Rockies, earning a reputation for a top notch facility, spectacular scenery, and attracting top caliber teams and players, including some colder climates like Canada who look to get their season started earlier than the weather back home permits. This year, an entire team from Minnesota, Vannelli’s decided to “go west” and play at Red Rock. For the second year in a row, some of the games were broadcast live on the internet, on Ballparkradio.com. (more…)

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L.B. Black Sox Head to Grants Pass, Oregon for Memorial Weekend Tournament

Wednesday, May 25th, 2005

Fresh on the heels of their second So Cal ASA Alliance tournament title of 2005, at Lancaster last weekend, Fred Hanker’s Long Beach Black Sox will be heading north for the Grant’s Pass Memorial Day tournament. It will be a family affair for Fred, who’s father lives in the area and will no doubt bring along some local fans to root on the Sox. Fred had this to say about the rapid progress of his club, from a first year team last season, finishing as the Cal Cup champions in 2004, and now, winning two of the four Alliance tournaments to date:

“In only their second year of existence the Long Beach Black Sox have won 2 ASA “C” Alliance tournaments and currently sit in 4th place in the Alliance standings. Manager Fred Hanker didn’t expect so much success this soon. “When you try to build the team that you want there is a constant process of adding and subtracting parts until you get all of the pieces of the puzzle together.” ” to build the team that I wanted I figured would take a few years and I am surprised that this team has come together so fast and played so well together almost immediately.” “To me the key was keeping some crucial players from last year such as: Dale Lopes, Randy Clay, Chuck Vranich, John Otte, Dan Fleming, Brett Semans and myself. “The additions this year were almost a perfect fit.” “I think we really starting taking off when we added Andy Martinez and Chuck Chaple.” “These 2 guys have been the glue in the middle of the infield and been great number 1 and 2 hitters.” “Chris Minogue and Damo Guerrero have been huge in the 4 and 5 spots in the order driving in runs every weekend.” Marcel Bernal is the fiery leader we didnt have last year and a great run producer at the bottom of the order.” Benny Guerrero is a soft spoken leader who still swings the bat very well and does everything you ask of a player to help your team.”

The Sox put it all together this past weekend in Lancaster and went 6-1 to win the tournament. There were many outstanding individual efforts this past weekend.

MVP Chris Minogue .476 avg 3 hr 12 RBI 7 runs
Fred hanker .650 avg (8) doubles 11 RBI 9 runs
All tournament Damo Guerrero .500 6 RBI 5 runs
Dale Lopes .400 4 bb’s
Andy Martinez .545 14 runs scored
Dan Fleming .437 5 RBI (1st game ever as a slap hitter)
John Otte 2 hr’s 5 RBI
Chuck Vranich 3 wins including two over Primetime
Randy Clay 3 wins 3 on Sunday

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Portland Rose Cup Tournament Details Released

Wednesday, May 25th, 2005

The Portland Rose Cup & DeMarini Classic – June 25-26 – East Delta Park Complex

[ Portland, Oregon]-The Portland Rose Cup & DeMarini Classic fields for this years events appear to be full. Sixteen teams will compete in the Rose Cup & 8 will battle it out for the Classic title. Broken Bow returns to defend their 2004 Rose Cup title. Of course, they also are the defending ISC Champions. A big welcome back to this class team! The Boise Clippers return to defend their DeMarini Classic title. Prince George, BC makes their first Rose Cup appearance with Collin McKenzie and Kevin Careless added to their pitching staff. The Vancouver Grey Sox have beefed up their already strong roster with the addition of Evan Potskin (OF), Gerry Kennedy (1B/DH) & Rick Smith (P) to mention a few. The SoCal Bombers look very impressive with the addition of Tony Peeples (P), Todd Garcia (C), Jason Porto (Inf) & Travis Price (P). Team Rainey has added pitcher, Bricklen Anderson. More to come on fastpitchwest.com on the various teams, but it looks like a very strong field. Every year has featured lots of upsets and this year should be no exception. These teams come to play.

The Portland Rose Cup includes the following teams:

The Broken Bow Spirit Amsterdam, New York
Meralomas Vancouver, BC
Team CR DeMarini Portland, Oregon
Angels Fastpitch Vancouver, BC
Page Brake Salt Lake City, Utah
Team Rainey Whittier, California
Prince George Fastpitch Prince George, BC
Castlewood Jesters Pleasant Grove, Utah
Bodle Chiropractic Des Moines, Washington
Vancouver Grey Sox Vancouver, BC
NorCal Mavericks Sacramento, California
Morgan Transfer Olympia, Washington
SoCal Bombers Los Angeles, California
Larry Miller Cheverolet Salt Lake City, Utah
River City Rockers Sacramento, California
The Boise Clippers Boise, Idaho

The Portland DeMarini Classic includes the following teams:

CR/Adidas Portland, Oregon
Cleon’s Auto Tacoma, Washington
The Nighthawks Seattle, Washington
Globe Pacific Grants Pass, Oregon
Interbay Door Seattle, Washington
JRW & Associates Yakima, Washington
Rose City Merchants Portland, Oregon
The Boise Brewers Boise, Idaho

One of the Classic teams will move “up” to the Rose Cup in the event of any cancellations. A few teams have still not paid their entry fees.
Entry fees are $400 (US Dollars) for the Rose Cup & $300.00 for the DeMarini Classic.
Mail entry fee to:

Ron Boley
PMSA
10737 N. Union Ct.
Portland, OR 97217
(503) 823-3112 or go to: www.portlandsoftball.com

Host Hotels:

The Staybridge Suites (800) 238-8000
11936 NE Glenn Widing Drive
Portland, Oregon 97220

The Holiday Inn Express (503) 283-8000 ask for Shelly
2300 N. Hayden Island Drive
Portland, Oregon 97217

The Oxford Suites (800) 548-7848
12226 N. Jantzen Drive
Portland, Oregon 97217

Thrifty Car Rental is offering car/van discounts. (503) 254-2277 and mention the Rose Cup

Hooters at Mall 205 is offering a free Saturday evening Rose Cup Players food platter.
9950 SE Stark St.
Portland, Oregon 97216
Hooter’s representatives(??) will attend Saturday games and distribute food vouchers.

Official Photographer: Maddy Flanagan from www.fastpitchwest.com
Radio/internet broadcasts of six Rose Cup games with Jim Flanagan at: www.ballparkradio.com
Official tournament website: http://www.fastpitchwest.com/rosecup.htm
Tournament Director: Roger Jones (503) 887-3200 or jonesroger9@earthlink.com
Assistant Director: John Fitzgerald jnbfitz@msn.com
PMSA Director: Ron Boley pkronb@ci.portland.or.us
June 25-26th at Delta Park in Portland, Oregon
Travel/Prize Money: Rose Cup – $3,500.00 (between first 4 places) DeMarini Classic – $500.00 (1st Place winner)
An Official Portland Rose Festival Event
Umpire Crew Chief: Dan Duffy
Official Sponsor: DeMarini Sports

Game schedules will be released soon.

Hope to see you there!

Tom Ree
Tournament Advisor
mailto: ree1837@comcast.net

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Bracket Released for ASA “C” National Qualifier at Stockton, CA

Wednesday, May 25th, 2005

Twenty-four teams will vie for two ASA “C” National Tournament berths in a double-elimination qualifier this weekend, May 28-29, 2005, at Louis Park in Stockton, CA. Stockton will also host the National Tournament over the Labor Day weekend in September.

Ron Kirby’s Rounders are the lone entrant from the Southern California region. The Rounders will face A-1 Tank of Hayward, California in their first round game at 2:00 p.m. at Louis Park in Stockton. (Their original first round opponent, Team Taylor has withdrawn from the tournament). A-1 Tank finished 7th in the ASA “B” Nationals in 2000, 13th in the ASA “B” Nationals in 2002, and were approved to return to the “C” division in January 2005. The Rounders finished 13th among 70 teams at last year’s ASA “C” National Tournament in Hastings, with a 4-2 record.

The highest finishing team playing in the qualifier at Stockton this weekend, are the Nielsen Realty Gamblers, who finished 9th in the ASA “C” Nationals at Hastings, NE last year, with a 3-2 record. Nielsen will take on Gaines Liquor at 8:30am Saturday morning.

The winner of the Rounders/A-1 Tank game will play the winner Oroville/Savala Painters vs. McLaughlin Air at 8:30 p.m. The Savala Painters are currently in first place in the Central California travel league, with a 9-1 record. With the addition of ISC stars, Dean Holoien, Todd Budke and Wayne Wells, the Painters recently won the Red Rock Tournament at St. George Utah.

Also in the Rounders/Painters end of the bracket is the always tough West Coast Financial, which finished 3rd in the ASA “C” Nationals in 2003 at College Station, TX.

Winner’s bracket games are scheduled for 8am, 10am, 12:00, 12:30pm, 2:30pm, 8:30pm, and 10pm Saturday, and 10am, 2pm, with the championship game at 6pm Sunday. The “if” game is slated for 8pm Sunday.

Loser’s bracket games are scheduled for 4pm, 6pm, 6:30pm, 10pm and 10:30pm Saturday, and 8am, 8:30am, 10:30am, 12:30pm, 2pm and 4pm Sunday.

The bracket is posted online as a PDF file (Adobe Reader Required). Click the link or PDF icon.
http://www.fastpitchwest.com/stockton.pdf

For those readers without Adobe Reader or PDF capability, we have also posted the brackets as a .jpg (photo) file, viewable directly in your browser:

Winner’s Bracket
Loser’s Bracket

Satellite Photo/Map of Louis Park, Stockton, CA

Our readers are invited to post comments here to tell us more about other teams in the bracket. Click Comment link at lower right. It will take you to a second page with the story at the top and a box to post your comments below. A simple one-time registration required to post comments.

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So Cal Bombers and Mexican National Team, Jugando a Media Noche

Monday, May 23rd, 2005



(Jugando a media noche = Playing at Midnight)

[Ensenada, Baja California. Mexico – 5/23/05]- The #19 ranked So Cal Bombers went south of the border this past weekend and played in Ensenada, Mexico. The 2 day tourney was condensed in to a one day tourney because only 5 teams ended up entering the tourney, with the championship game starting at midnight on Saturday night. What a great place to play and great fans for the Mexican teams that rooted on their teams all day. Definitely one of the most hostile environments the Bombers have ever played a tournament! But it made for a great challenge and day of softball! The fields were all dirt with its share of rocks in the field which made it interesting. Also, the bases were rubber squares that the umpires just through on the field when the game started…including home plate!!

On to the games…
Game 1

So Cal Bombers……1
23-under Ensenada…0

Panfilo Valdez took the mound for the Bombers and threw a gem. He needed to because the Bombers could only muster 1 run in the game on a solo home run by Robert Renteria in the top of the 3rd. Valdez struck out 14 in the game and allowed 2 hits.

Renteria 1 X 3 HR, RBI

Game 2

So Cal Bombers……..8
Ensenada All-stars….2

The best hitting output for the Bombers on the day. The Bombers scored 5 in the first inning and 3 in the 2nd to put the game out of reach early. Arturo Solano and Jason Porto hit HR’s for the Bombers and Tony Peeples pitched a complete game striking out 13 and allowing 3 hits and 2 earned runs.

Arturo Solana 2X3 HR, 2 RBI’s
Jason Porto 3X4 HR, Triple 4 RBI’s
Todd Garcia 2X3

Game 3

So Cal Bombers 1
Mexican National Team 3

Both the Bombers and the Mexican National Team had advanced to the championship game and this was the last game in the round robin. The National team took the early lead off of starter Travis Price in the first inning and held a 1-0 lead into the 4th. Todd Garcia hit a solo shot to right center to tie the game in the fourth, but the lead vanished in the bottom of the inning when the National Team struck for 2 runs. The National team held off the Bombers to take a 3-1 victory. Travis Price was the tough luck loser going the distance and giving up only 3 hits and striking out 12. It was his first loss of the season.

Todd Garcia 1X 3 HR, RBI
Dan Winnick 2 X 3
Nate Devine 2 X 3 2B

Game 4

Championship game

So Cal Bombers…………1
Mexican National Team…..2 (8 innings)

The best game of the day hands down and the fans loved it. After 16 hours of drinking cold beer they were definitely animated going into the championship. The Bombers got a run in the top of the first on back to back 2 out doubles by Porto and Garcia to take an early 1-0 lead. The National Team bounced back to tie the game in the bottom of the inning at 1-1.

The game went scoreless into the top of the 7th when the Bombers opened the inning with runners on 1st and 2nd with nobody out and could not score and the game eventually went to the international tie-breaker in the 8th. The Bombers got the bases loaded with nobody out after a walk to Raymundo Parra and a bunt single by Arturo Solano but could not capitalize. A 1-2-3 double play got the first 2 outs in the inning and then a strikeout ended the top half of the 8th. The National Team only needed 2 pitches to win the game in the bottom of the 8th with a wild pitch moving the runner to 3rd and a single between short and 3rd ended the game. Ponfilo Valdez pitched outstanding in the championship giving up 4 hits and striking out 10
to take the loss.

It was an absolutely outstanding tournament put on by the city of Ensenada and the weather cooperated perfectly with the temperature in the high 80’s. We want to thank the city and hope to be back there next year. The Bombers record on the year is now 23-5.

Team Owner and sponsor Ralph Trejo spoke with the Mexican National team on Sunday about coming to California to play a best of three series with the winner to take home $1000.00. We wait to hear from the team Director and will post any info as soon as possible. Teams to play ISF rules that will be enforced by a adequate umpiring staff.

Information provided courtesy of
Jason Porto and Ralph Trejo Jr.
So Cal Bombers
http://www.bombersfastball.com
maito:info@bombersfastball.com

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Boys of Summer Tournament, Denmark WI, July 8-10, 2005

Monday, May 23rd, 2005

#5 ranked Circle Tap will host the 5th Annual “Boys of Summer” Tournament, July 8-10, 2005 at Denmark, Wisconsin.

Click Here for Schedule of Games for Boys of Summer Tournament

The atmosphere of the games at the tournament is very “fan friendly”, to say the least. The Circle Tap bar has a deck attached that you can watch the games from as well as some bleachers and you can even watch from inside the bar through the windows.

So Cal’s Team Rainey, currently #20 in the ISC preseason rankings will be among the teams competing. Team Rainey’s schedule on Saturday July 9 will be:

9:00 IS Knights vs Team Rainey
1:00 Team Rainey vs Dolan & Murphy
3:00 Team Rainey vs Circle Tap

The tournament boasts a strong field of teams, with 4 of the 12 in the current Top 10, and ten teams in the Top 25. Here are the teams entered, and their current spot in the ISC preseason rankings:

ISC Preseason Ranking/Team

1) County Materials, WI
2) The Farm Tavern, WI
5) Circle Tap, WI
6) IS Knights, ND
11) Heflin, MO
14) The Bar Avenue, WI
15) Patsy’s, NY
17) Townline/Shoots, WI
20) Team Rainey, CA
24) Blooomington Stix, IL
28) Aurora Dolan & Murphys, IL
ISC-II 3) The Bar Appelton, WI

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ISC #18 Albaugh, Inc. sweeps opening weekend of ISC Qualifier, Omaha Nebraska

Monday, May 23rd, 2005

Albaugh, Inc. sweeps opening weekend of ISC Qualifier, Omaha Nebraska (eScribe: Al’s Fastball List)

On the weekend, #18 Albaugh defeated #27 ranked Team Iowa, the squad that Sonny Perkins plays for, behind the pitching of Terry Luster. So Cal readers will recall that Luster pitched for Houston H.I.S. at the 2003 ISC World Tournament and was the only pitcher able to beat Team Rainey. Both Houston and Team Rainey finished pool play with 3-1 records, and Luster beat them again in a playoff game for the final “Sweet Sixteen” spot in the playoff bracket.

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#19 So Cal Bombers Head to Ensenada This Weekend

Thursday, May 19th, 2005

The So Cal Bombers will be competing in a tournament this weekend, May 21-22, 2005 in Ensenda, Mexico, hosted by the Mexican Softball Federation. Prize money totalling $5000 will be awarded. The Bombers, with a 21-3 record, are currently ranked #19 in the ISC World pre-season rankings, and have won tournament titles at Norwalk, CA, (going 6-0), Las Vegas, NV, (5-1) and were runner-ups at Red Rock (5-2) They were also a perfect 5-0 in So Cal ASA A/B league action at Santa Fe Springs. Pitcher Travis Price, shown in photo below, is 9-0.

Bombers pitcher Travis Price is 9-0 as his team heads to Ensenada, Mexico this weekend

The Bombers’ top hitters thus far have been Jose “Pepe” Aguila, .640 (25ab’s); Reymundo Parra (39ab’s) .564; Todd Garcia (47ab’s) .489, and Dan Winnick (52ab’s).481. ; and Arturo Solano (40ab’s) .475. Dan Winnick leads the team in hits with 25, while Garcia has 23. The Bombers are hitting .378 as a team, with an on-base percentage of .427, with 205 hits, an average of 9 per game.

The Bombers have truly lived up to their name, hitting 30 home runs in just 24 games, Arturo Solano leads the squad in homers with 7, while Garcia, Jason Porto and Parra have 5 each (Garcia’s coming in one single weekend, at Santa Fe Springs). Mike Butler and Reymundo Parra have 4 each.

For more on the So Cal Bombers, visit their team website here. Kudos to the Bombers’ webmaster Cesar Rodriguez on a great site. He’s added several photo galleries, organized by year, tournament and player. Nicely done, Cesar.

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Pitcher Wanted for 4th of July Tournament in San Antonio, Texas

Thursday, May 19th, 2005

Looking for Pitcher ! San Antonio, Texas July 3-4 (Al’s Fastball)

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Argentina Announces Roster for 2005 ISF Jr. Men’s Championships

Wednesday, May 18th, 2005

Argentina has released its official roster for the upcoming 2005 ISF Jr. Men’s World Championships on Prince Edward Island, Canada. Their coaching staff includes a familiar name, Franciso (‘Sisko) Sabate, who pitched and played last year with Morgan Transfer of Olympia, WA, and for several years with Bucknell Park of Lacey, WA. Argentina will play its first game on June 24, 2005 against New Zealand.

Click here to view roster.

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