From our friend, Martin Jorge, Head of Press and Communication, Softball Confederation Argentina
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Santiagueña Softball Federation announced the fixture of the Argentine Championships Men’s Softball and Women’s senior team, to be played in the city of Santiago del Estero from tomorrow Friday until Sunday. A total of six selected male and eight female settled in the diamond and circle Caranchos maximum national softball titles.
Notably, in Santiago will bring together many of the members of the Select Argentina Male and Female, who less than two months ago had an outstanding participation in its international commitments. Recall that the Men’s National Team won the seventh place in World Championship Saskatoon, Canada, while the Women’s Team won the fifth place in the Pan American Maracay, Venezuela, and was classified at the 2010 World Cup, and Pan American Games in Guadalajara 2011. Thus, the Argentine championship this weekend is presented as an ideal opportunity to observe the greatest exponents of the national softball diamonds Santiago del Estero.
On the boys side, Paraná, Bahia Blanca, La Pampa, Buenos Aires and Tucumán will join the local, Santiago del Estero, to see who will be the Argentine champion older male. These six teams will cross all against all, going to the playoffs the first 4 classified. The playoff will be played under a simple page, which on Sunday will crown the champion Argentina. The team is defending champion Paraná, which fell last year with an honor, to overcome in the Bahia Blanca final by 2 to 0 in the tournament played at Santa Rosa, La Pampa. Entrerriano team this weekend seek to repeat the title, while the rest try to unseat the red team’s national softball throne.
Meanwhile, for the women’s eight selected will meet in Santiago del Estero, divided into two zones of four teams. After the draw was made last Saturday at a meeting of Confederation Argentina, Area A was composed by James, Olavarria, Tucuman and Bahia Blanca, while Area B is composed of Buenos Aires, Parana, La Pampa and Cordoba. The competition includes the four teams from each zone pass to the playoffs, so that while a good position in the group stage makes things easier, the real tournament starts at the stage of the playoffs. This event marks a significant increase in the number of participants last year, when only four teams (two of them in Buenos Aires) participated in the Argentine Olavarria. The defending champion is Buenos Aires, which last year exceeded the Olavarria final by 9 to 2.
The schedule of both tournaments is as follows:
