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Archive for July, 2006
Bob Walsh Memorial Tournament (July 21-22)
Saturday, July 22nd, 2006USA Softball To Conduct Open Evaluation Camp
Saturday, July 22nd, 2006The USA Softball junior men’s national team coaching staff will conduct an open evaluation camp for players born in 1989, 1990, 1991 and 1992. The open camp will be held in North Mankato, Minnesota on Thursday, August 3 from 7-9 pm at the South Central College softball field, located at 1920 Lee Boulevard. The camp will be held in conjunction with the ASA Junior Olympic National Tournament, for age groups 10-Under, 12-Under, 14-Under, 16-Under, 18-Under and 23-Under, which begins the following day at Caswell Park in North Mankato.
Head coach Tim Lyon and assistant coaches Scott Standerfer and Gary Mullican, along with selection committee member Doug Lindaman will evaluate players based on throwing, fielding, hitting and timed-running drills. No prior fastpitch softball experience is required and age-appropriate baseball players are encouraged to attend. Players do not need to be participating in the ASA national tournament to be eligible to attend the evaluation camp.
The USA Softball coaching staff and selection committee are in the process of locating, evaluating and training prospective players for the 19-Under USA national team which will participate in the International Softball Federation World Championships in 2008. For more information about the camp, contact Tim Lyon at timlyon(at) earthlink.net or Doug Lindaman at dlindaman(at) hotmail.com.
2006 NSA Fastpitch World Series
Saturday, July 22nd, 2006[Salem, VA]- 2006 NSA Fastpitch World Series – Aug.4th-6th
Any teams (ASA A, B, C or ISCII) interested in competing in the
2006 Men’s NSA Fastpitch World Series can contact Tommy Zehmer
@ (757)592-2817 or by email nsava@aol.com. If you are not from
VA you will need to send two payments, $280 and $95 US for the
entry fee. Make checks payable to NSA. Deadline is July 28th.
For more information go to http://www.virginiansa.com
Jason Whiteley
jasonwhiteley2000(at)yahoo.com
2006 ISC II Schedule Released
Saturday, July 22nd, 2006The ISC is pleased to release the pools and schedule for the 2006 ISC II Tournament of Champions to be played at Budd Park in Kitchener and Kinsmen Park in Cambridge.
Play will begin Sunday August 13 at 11 am with the championship scheduled for 5 pm on Friday August 18.
Each team will play four pool games with the top three in each of seven pools, along with three wildcards, moving on to a single-elimination playoff bracket.
The full schedule can be found here on the ISC II section of the ISC website at www.iscfastpitch.com or see below for a breakdown of the schedule by pools.
The “West” will be represented by three teams, shown below in bold, the California Lumberkings, from California, JRW Associates from Yakima, Washington, and the Colorado Rage from Colorado. West region teams will open the tournament as follows:
Colorado Rage, CO – Sunday, August 13, 9am EST – vs. Elmira Cubs, Ontario Cand (defending champions)
JRW Associates, Yakima Washington – Sunday, 1:00 p.m. EST – vs. Glencoe Astros, Ontario, Canada
California Lumberkings – Sunday, August 13, 7:00 pm EST – vs. Bridgeport Proforma Braves (host team)
The pools are as follows:
70 Years of Fastpitch and Counting
Saturday, July 22nd, 2006Thanks to Bernie Lopez for this article. (For our earlier feature on Guernsey Island, click here.)
I first visited Guernsey Island back in 1989. The group of Alconbury misfits I was playing ball with crossed the English Channel via ferry boat. In a borrowed Air Force van loaded with Spam, cases of Heineken beer and bags of old softball equipment, we were ready for battle. Looking back at my first summer in Guernsey seems ages ago. Meeting friendly locals for the first time and remaining friends all these years is one of the things I consider special in my life. And going back this year to celebrate their 70th anniversary of fastpitch softball on the Island makes me feel a bit melancholy yet excited, and happy for the locals who have preserved the sport and kept it alive since its birth on the Island 70 years ago, way back in 1936.
It all began in 1935 when Canadian Duncan McMillan moved to the Island and introduced baseball to the locals. They eagerly took up the sport and soon the “Big Nine Baseball Club†was born. A year later in 1936 the move to softball was made and the Guernsey Softball Association (GSA) was established. Currently it remains one of the oldest and longest running softball associations in existence.
Team Rainey Headed to ISC World Tournament
Wednesday, July 19th, 2006Team Rainey, currently the #24 ranked team in the world, is headed to its fourth consecutive ISC World Tournament, August 11-19, 2006, in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. The So Cal squad competed in 2003 in Kimberly, WI (narrowly missing the Sweet 16), in 2004 in Fargo, ND, and last year in Eau Claire, WI. In last year’s tournament, catcher Dwayne Fowler earned Second Team All World Honors, and pitcher Rick Smith tied an ISC World Tournament record with 20 strikeouts in one game.
This year, Team Rainey added young 22-year old pitching sensation, Sebastian Gervasutti, from Argentina, (“C-Bass” as his teammates call him) to go with now veteran ace, Bricklen Anderson, who hails from British Columbia. Team Rainey also added former Team USA catcher Todd Garcia, who formerly played for the highly regarded Farm Tavern team, and no stranger to ISC World level competition.
Team Rainey will open the tournament at 5pm EST against the #9 ranked Kegel Black Knights. Rainey notched its biggest win of the year against Kegel recently, beating them at the Boys of Summer tournament in Denmark, WI. Should they get past Kegel, they would face the host team, the Kitchener Hallman Twins, a team they lost a 1-0 heart breaker to in an extra inning marathon that ended at 2 in the morning.
Here is the complete roster for Team Rainey, who will fly into Toronto, then head over to Kitchener, less than an hour away:
ISC World Tournament Roster (pitchers in bold)
#2 Stan Grebeck
#4 Nick Medredwich
#6 Tony Acedo
#7 Andrew Medredwich
#9 Rod Rainey
#13 Bricklen Anderson
#14 Tim Hunt
#16 Dwayne Fowler
#17 Chris Hunt
#18 Todd Garcia
#23 Jesse Duncan
#27 Don Didion
#28 Roy Guinaldo
#36 Sebastian Gervasutti
#41 Dee Nieblas
#44 Neal Sauerheber
(First in a series of articles about Western Region teams headed to the premier event in all of men’s fastball, the ISC World Tournament. Watch here at the Morning Brief for profiles on other western region teams).
ASA Major (Aug 3-6)
Wednesday, July 19th, 2006Coming soon, the ASA Major tournament from South Bend, Indiana. We hear that there are 17 teams committed for the tournament.
So Cal ASA Week 6 @ SFS
Wednesday, July 19th, 2006ALLIANCE TOURNAMENT SERIES – WEEK 6
This weekend tournament will once again be held at Little Lake Park in Santa Fe Springs. There will be six A/B teams and eight C teams playing this weekend. This will mark the final tournament of the season for the B teams as three teams will be fighting for the second place spot in the Alliance standings. The Panteras have wrapped up the top spot.
In the C’s Latin Heat will be doing double duty again manning the grill as well as playing as they go into the weekend in a tie for the top sport with the So Cal Hustlers. This weekend also marks the return of a few teams that have not been able to make it the past couple of tournaments, the So Cal Rebels and the Gamecocks.
Games will start at 9:00 AM on Saturday with the Single elimination starting at 8:00 AM on Sunday.
Men’s Fastpitch-C PCR -14 Regional Championship
Tuesday, July 18th, 2006From Central Cal ASA:
Men’s Fastpitch-C PCR -14 Regional Championship
Once again, Central California ASA is proud to host this regional event. This event will be held at the six Diamond Fresno Regional Park
Date: August 5-6, 2006
Draw August 3, 2006
Format: Double elimination
Entry Fee: $330.00
Awards 1st & 2nd place sponsor awards
1st & 2nd Place teams receive Indv worth bags, 1st place entry fee paid to National
Championships
1 MVP worth tote bag 1st & 2nd Place
1st & 2nd place coaches receive coaches’ briefcase.Make check Payable to CCASA
Mail to: Jeff Coleman
6759 N. First St.
Fresno, Ca 93710Contact:
Jeff Coleman Jcol674496@aol.com
Or 559-903-8068Playing Fields: Fresno Regional Park,
Address: 1707 W. Jensen Ave
Fresno, CA 93706Lodging Assistance:
http://www.fresnolodging.com
ISC World Tournament Draws for Western Region Teams
Monday, July 17th, 2006
Western Region Teams – First Round Draws:
First Round Games Friday August 11 or Saturday August 12, 2006
All times EST (three hours ahead of west coast time);
# 6 Vancouver Grey Sox – Sat 11am vs. Ashland MVD, OH (#31) – (Sat/8am PST)
# 7 So Cal Bombers – Sat 3pm vs. Innerkip, ON, Canada (#21) – (Sat/12noon PST)
#16 Pueblo Bandits – Friday 6pm vs. Jarvis Merchants (#19) – (Friday/3pm PST)
#16* CR/Portland – Sat 3pm vs. Albaugh, IA (#15) – (Sat/12noon PST)
#23 Houston Aces – Sat 11am vs. Circle Tap (#13) – (Sat/8am PST)
#24 Team Rainey – Sat 5pm vs. Kegel Black Knights (#9) – (Sat/2pm PST)
*Portland was ranked #16 in the last set of full rankings, June 21, but not in the final “Top 16” rankings.