Unbeaten on Saturday, Fall in Semi-Final Sunday
After going 3-0 in pool play to earn the #1 seed and a bye to the semi-finals of the Vancouver Challenge, the #1 ranked California Taylor Farms Lumberkings dropped a 6-3 decision to the Pueblo Bandits Sunday morning.
Pueblo Bandits 6R 10H 0E
California Lumberkings 3R 3H 1E
WP Max Montero
LP Dave Drotzmann
Middleton, Wisconsin
After being bounced to the Loser’s Bracket Saturday evening, the Patsy’s captured the 2008 The Farm/NAFA Open World Series Title Sunday afternoon at the Bowling Green Recreation Complex in Middleton, Wisconsin.
Sunday scores not yet reported:
Game 36, Patsy’s 7 MinnDak Millers 0, 5 innings, eliminated
Game 37, Patsy’s 2 Midwest Stampede 1, eliminated
-Stephen Ratu walk-off home run
Game 38, Championship, Patsy’s 8 Casa Trejo A-1 SoCal Bombers 1, 5 innings
WP-Adam Folkard
LP-Lucas Mata
All World teams and final boxes and stats to follow Sunday evening or Monday morning.
Brett Bresnahan
brett.bresnahan(at)gmail.com
http://www.open.nafafastpitch.com
Middleton, Wisconsin
Game 34
Patsy’s 5 The Farm Tavern 2, eliminated
WP-Folkard
LP-Schweyer
Milne, Ratu HRs top 6
Game 35
MinnDak Millers 8 Circle Tap 3, eliminated
WP-Price
LP-Potoloicchio
In progress at 10:45 central time, Patsy’s vs MinnDak
Muizelaar vs Tschida
Winner plays Midwest Stampede at noon
Championship scheduled for 2pm
Running about 40 minutes behind
Casa Trejo A-1 Bombers vs noon game winner
Brett Bresnahan
brett.bresnahan@gmail.com
http://www.open.nafafastpitch.com
Middleton, Wisconsin
Saturday am scores from the 2008 The Farm Open World Series at the Bowling Green Recreation Complex in Middleton, Wisconsin.
Game 11, Kegel Black Knights 5 Herda & Sons 2
Game 12, The Bar of Green Bay 5 The Stoneyard 1
Game 13, Dolan & Murphy 6 Quad City Sox 4
Game 14, New Image 7 Thomson Area Merchants 5
Game 15, Wilber LIme 7 The Bar of Appleton 5
Game 17, Herda & Sons 5 The Bar of Green Bay 2, eliminated
Game 23, Midwest Stampede 2 Townline 1
Games in progress as of 2pm CST
Game 18, New Image 5 The Bar of Appleton 1, top 7th
Game 22, MinnDak Millers 2 Patsy’s 1, top 3rd
Game 25, Circle Tap 1 Casa Trejo A-1 Bombers 0, top 3Brett Bresnahan
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Grey Sox in good form to defend title
Vancouver Sun
Friday, July 25, 2008Ageless pitching ace Mike Piechnik will lead the Vancouver Grey Sox into the annual Vancouver Challenge Men’s Fastpitch Tournament this weekend at South Memorial Park.
The 47-year-old Victoria native is 13-1 this season for the Grey Sox, defending Canadian senior men’s champions, and ranked No. 9 in the world by the International Softball Congress.
The Grey Sox, 29-6, are coming off a four-game sweep of Portland DeMarini in Oregon last weekend and are led offensively by outfielders Rob Giesbrecht and Brian Abrey and infielder Derek Mayson.
Portland, ranked No. 30 by the ISC, is in Vancouver for this weekend’s tournament, along with the No. 11-ranked Horse Lake Thunder of Alberta, and No. 24 Pubeblo, Colo., Bandits. Those three teams, plus the Grey Sox, are tuning up for the ISC world championships Aug. 9-16 in Kimberley, Wisc.
Filling out the eight-team tournament are the Bakersfield, Ca., Lumberkings; the Camrose, Alta., Fury; Vancouver South Hill Giants and Vernon DC Arrows.
Games begin tonight at 6:30 p.m. and continue all day Saturday and Sunday morning. The championship final is set for 2 p.m. on Sunday. Admission is $5 a day or $10 for a tournament pass.
© The Vancouver Sun 2008Copyright © 2008 CanWest Interactive, a division of CanWest MediaWorks Publications, Inc.. All rights reserved.
Three Round Robin Games Saturday
The California Lumberkings will get a look at some of the world’s best teams in Vancouver, Canada this weekend at the Vancouver Challenge. The Lumberkings are currently the # 1 ranked team in the ISC II division as they gear up for a run at the the ISC II Tournament of Champions title in Appleton August 10-13, 2008. The Lumberkings narrowly missed the top spot last year, making it to the championship game before falling to the TNT squad of South Lebanon, PA. This year’s roster was bolstered by some of the top players from the 2007 A-1 Taylor Farms team, which finished third at last year’s ISC T of C, right behind the Lumberkings, who eliminated them in an extra inning semi-final game.
The Lumberkings will be missing a few of their regulars, this weekend though. Says Lumberking’s skipper, David Weldin:
“This weekend is going to be a tough weekend for us. We are missing 4 guys from our lineup. We should be able to get a lot of guys some at bats to prepare for the ToC in 3 weeks. We are going to have to play smart fundamental softball this weekend.”
Here is the schedule for the Lumberkings at the Vancouver Challenge, who will be in the “Blue” pool, with the Camrose, AB Fury, Portland, OR DeMarini, and Vernon, BC DC Arrows.
Round Robin games:
SATURDAY – July 2610:00 – California vs. Vernon
1:30 – California vs. Camrose
3:30 – California vs. PortlandPLAYOFF SCHEDULE
SATURDAY – July 26
P1 – 7:00 – R3 vs B3 – loser eliminated – winner to P3
P2 – 9:00 – R4 vs B4 – loser eliminated – winner to P4
(Nick Underhill of the Vancouver Grey Sox, who will be in action at the Vancouver Challenge this weekend)
Click Nick for the Schedule of Games.
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From The Province:
The Province
Friday » July 25 » 2008
World’s best convene at Vancouver fastpitch tournament
Event hosted by the tough Grey Sox squadSome of the top men’s softball teams in the world will be at South Memorial Park this weekend for the seventh annual Vancouver Challenge Men’s Fastpitch Tournament.
The tournament is hosted by the Vancouver Grey Sox, the defending Canadian champions and a team that’s ranked at No. 9 in the world by the International Softball Congress.
The Grey Sox, 29-6 this season, are coming off a four-game Super Series sweep of Portland DeMarini last weekend and are gearing up for the ISC World Championship Aug. 9-16 in Kimberly, Wis.
They’re headed to the Canadian Championship in Saskatoon Aug. 24-31.
This weekend’s tournament could feature a “Hall of Fame” matchup of two of the sport’s best pitchers. Victoria’s Mike Piechnik, now 47, is still dominant. He’s the owner of a 13-1 record with the Grey Sox this season, and could end up facing Darren Zack, a future Hall of Famer who’s hurling for Alberta’s Horse Lake Thunder, the 11th-ranked club by the ISC.
The eight-team tournament includes Portland DeMarini, the Bakersfield Lumberkings, Pueblo Bandits, Camrose Fury, Vernon and the Vancouver South Hill Giants.
Leading the Grey Sox at the plate are Canadian national team infielder/outfielder Rob Giesbrecht of Manitoba, national team pitcher/infielder Derek Mayson of North Vancouver, outfielder Brian Abrey of Richmond and catcher Kevin Rasmussen from Seattle.
Besides Zack, the Thunder have former Canadian national team pitcher Sean Whitten and Karl Gollan, a New Zealander pitcher who was the 2007 ISC MVP.
The tourney starts at 6:30 p.m. today. Play begins at 8 a.m. on both Saturday and Sunday with the final set for 2 p.m. on Sunday.
South Memorial Park is on 41st Ave. between Fraser and Knight streets. Admission is $5 per day or $10 for a tournament pass.
The schedule is at www.vancouvergreysox.com.
© The Vancouver Province 2008. Copyright © 2008 CanWest Interactive, a division of CanWest MediaWorks Publications, Inc.. All rights reserved.
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AAU International 2009 International Men Fastpitch Tournament
January 22 – 25, 2009
Disney’s Wide World of Sports Complex
Entry Fee $500
Deadline November 2,2008
** Reminder ** This is a first come first serve tournament.
For more information contact: Alex Linares
407-828-5602
alex@aausports.org
Alex Linares
Amateur Athletic Union Of The United States, Inc.
Sports Manager
Panama & Puerto Rico Liaison
International Events
407- 934 – 7200
407- 934 – 7242 (fax)
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Patsy’s hooks Rivershark Twins — this time
By Tim Shoemaker | Special to The Morning Call
July 21, 2008They’re sure to meet again, but NYC team wins Madl/Walsh title.
On Saturday in the round-robin portion of the ninth annual Tom Madl/Bob Walsh men’s fastpitch softball Memorial Classic, Don Scott of the Kitchener (Ontario) Rivershark Twins pitched a perfect game against Patsy’s of New York City.
On Sunday afternoon in the Madl/Walsh Classic championship at Patriots Park, Scott was not quite as fortunate.
Scott came on in relief in the seventh inning and allowed a double to Omar Moraga and a single to Frank DeGroat — back-to-back hits which produced the game-winning run in Patsy’s 3-2 victory.
Patsy’s, ranked No. 2 in the world, and the Rivershark Twins, No. 4, play each other on a regular basis over the course of the season and take turns beating each other. They will probably meet in two more tournaments this year, including the ASA Men’s Major Fastpitch tournament July 31-Aug. 3 and the the ISC World Tournament Aug. 10-16.
”He’s [Scott] a very, very good pitcher,” Patsy’s manager Roger Schnorrbusch said. ”We have a bunch of guys who bear down. Sometimes you win, and sometimes you lose. Today, we won.”
”[Saturday], we got them. Today, they got us,” said Riversharks sponsor/general manager Bob Nydick, a Villanova business professor who lives in Ambler. ”We’ve battled them for years. We probably have beaten them as much as they beat us.”
Patsy’s lost three times in the tournament’s round-robin portion, but got hot on Sunday and won twice to reach the championship game.
Todd Martin of the Rivershark Twins and Gerald Muizelaar of Patsy’s each threw three scoreless innings, but Patsy’s scored first in the top of the fourth when Brad Rona walked, went to second on a wild pitch, to third on a sacrifice fly, and scored when Martin threw high to home on a short grounder in front of the pitcher’s circle.
With two outs and none on base in the bottom of the fourth, the Twins strung together five consecutive hits off of Muizelaar. Steve Mullaley singled in Ian Fehrman and Dan Loney singled in Mullaley, but the rally ended when Patsy’s left fielder Daniel Milne threw out Blair Ezekiel, who tried to score on Blake Miller’s single.
Schnorrbusch replaced Muizelaar with Adam Folkard, who pitched three scoreless innings to record the victory.
Patsy’s tied the game in the fifth when Thomas Makea doubled in Jeff Holk, who reached on a fielder’s choice. They scored the game-winner in the seventh when DeGroat singled in Moraga.
”It shows a lot of character that the guys can put away losses on late Friday night and Saturday night, and come back Sunday in 95-degree weather,” Schnorrbusch said. ”That’s what it takes to win.”
Patsy’s 000 110 1 — 3 6 1
Rivershark Twins 000 200 0 — 2 6 2Muizelaar, Folkard (5) and DeGroat. Martin, Scott (7) and Shannon. W: Folkard. L: Scott.
Tim Shoemaker is a freelance writer.