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Rude Pac Tops SCIFL “A Major” Division Again

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007

Thanks to SCIFL reporter, Ron Rupp:

For the second time in as many Tournaments the Rude Pac won the SCIFL A Major Championship, Beating the tough and scrappy San Diego Prime Time 4 to 1 on Sunday in Santa Fe Springs. After losing their Ace pitcher Greg “Spud” Barker on Saturday when he rolled his ankle, the Rude Pac were fortunate enough to have picked up pitchers Robbie Davis and Ronnie Mizner who recently left Northern Cals A-1 Taylor Farms,for the Rude Pac and are both quality “B” pitchers.

In the championship game Rude Pac Started pitcher Robbie Davis against the Prime Time veteran Dan Zupp who was forced to pitch back to back games after already shutting out the Long Beach Black Sox 5-0 in the 9:00 am game. Rude Pac drew first blood in the bottom of the 2nd, P. Janasko was hit by the pitch then Javier Fierro sacrificed Janasko to second. After Mizer flied out to center Bobby Casturita was safe at first on a throwing error allowing Janasko to score. Rude Pac scored again in the bottom of the 4th when Fierro singled and Mizner followed with a two run homer. Prime Times only run came in the top of the 5th when Terry Brightwell singled Eric Gierman walked on four pitches, then Joe Nuanez was hit by the pitch loading the bases. Johnny Nuanez drove in Brightwell on a fielders choice for Prime Times only run of the game. Rude Pac added one more run in the bottom of the 6th when Jose Sandoval singled followed by a Jose Hernandez single, then Janasko singled home Sandoval to
round out the scoring for the Rude Pac. Hats off to Dan Zupp for pitching back to back games on Sunday and holding the explosive Rude Pac line up to only four runs! Also a tip of the cap to veteran Robbie Davis for a great weekend on the rubber using his hard drop ball to shut out the Long Beach Black Sox on Saturday with 10 K’s in a run rule game, and then holding the hot hitting San Diego Prime Time to only one run in the Championship game!

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Hustlers Take SCIFL “A” Division at Santa Fe Springs, CA

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007

Thanks to SCIFL reporter, Ron Rupp:

For the third time this young season the So Cal Hustlers won the SCIFL Tournament Championship game in Santa Fe Springs.
Joe “Papa” Salcido was in the circle for the Hustlers against Bobby Gonzales. In the first inning, with two aboard Jerome Morrison homered for a quick 3-0 lead. The Hustlers came right back in their half of the inning to tie the score utilizing 6 hits, including a triple by Daniel Roth. The score remained tied until the top of the fifth when the Panteras scored 3 runs. The Hustlers picked up a run in bottom of the sixth when Matt Shaw opened the inning with a double and coming around to score on Kasey Shaw’s fielders choice.

The Panteras added an insurance run in the seventh when Mike Manligus tripled in Eddie Arnel.Down three runs in the bottom of the seventh Luis Garcia singled, Ken Shaw was hit by the pitch then Dave Hess followed with a double scoring Garcia. Still with no outs Daniel Roth doubled home Shaw and Hess, to tie the game at seven runs apiece. The Panteras 2 then walked Steve Proffitt to set up the force play still with nobody out, but it wasn’t meant to be for the Panteras 2 as Matt Shaw singled on the first pitch driving home Roth to secure the 8-7 victory and the Hustlers third SCIFL Championship of 2007. Even though the Panteras 2 were unable to hold off the Hot hitting Hustlers, they proved once again they are a team to be reckoned with! This is the second time this year the Hustlers have beaten the Panteras by one run to win the Tournament. Also once again the ageless PaPa Joe Salcido outlasted the youngsters to win yet another Tournament for the Hustlers, what can you do but tip your hat to this man? Congratulations to both the Hustlers and the up and coming Panteras 2.

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Partial Results from Bombers Tournament

Monday, May 21st, 2007

From Al’s Fastball:

Sadly the hosts have not provided us with an results as of mid-morning Monday but thanks to one of the teams, we have a few items of information. We can only hope the lines open up from SoCal soon and we will have more details.

Saturday

Pueblo Bandits 3
IAC 2
Billy Hillhouse W
Cody Thompson L

Pueblo Bandits 13
Mexicalli 0
Regan Manley W

Pueblo Bandits 9
Young Bucks 0
Billy Hillhouse W

Bandits get number 1 seed in Pool

Sunday

Pueblo Bandits 1
SoCal Tribe 0
Regan Manley W
Sonny Perkins L
9 Inning game

Vancouver Gray Sox 7
Pueblo Bandits 0

The game with Vancouver Grey Sox was a very good game until the bottom of the 5th when Regan Manley had to come out with heat and dehydration problems and Billy had to leave early Sunday so they scored 5 on our right fielder. Nick Underhill got the win.

If Vancouver and Circle Tap (neither US West teams) played for championship and Pueblo and Bombers tied for 3rd, Pueblo wins the berth since Bombers already secured a berth at Red Rock.

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Circle Tap Takes Two of Three on Saturday at Palm Springs

Monday, May 21st, 2007

From the Green Bay Gazette, Green Bay, Wisconsin

Fastpitch softball: Circle Tap wins twice

Press-Gazette

PALM SPRINGS, Calif. — The Circle Tap men’s fastpitch softball team of Denmark opened its season by winning two of three games in the Casa Trejo Bombers Tournament on Saturday.

Matt Bramwell threw a two-hit shutout and struck out 19 in a 6-0 win over the Young Bucks of Santa Barbara, Calif. Kyle Van Abel and Steve Schucker had two RBIs each.

DeMarini Merchants of Portland, Ore., beat Circle Tap 4-1. Van Abel drove in the only run and Colin McKenzie took the loss.

Circle Tap then beat the Lumber Kings of Los Angeles 4-2. McKenzie earned the win, striking out five. Bramwell got the save, striking out six and driving in a run. Kyle Magnusson had three hits and an RBI.

The tournament goes to single elimination today.

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Scores from Palm Spring Classic Tournament

Sunday, May 20th, 2007

(We have received a number of emails asking if/when we’d be posting scores from the So Cal Bombers Palm Springs Classic. We have not received any scores or reports sorry to say.) We’ll post when we receive them.

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Maddy’s 2007 Red Rock Tournament Slideshow

Sunday, May 20th, 2007

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Created with Paul’s flickrSLiDR.


Click here to see the photo gallery.

Drop us a line to maddy (at) maddysphotos.com and let us know if you like this slideshow better than the earlier one. (I do, as the photos are larger and you can control the speed of the slides). Note that you can control the speed of the slideshow using the little slider at the top. (mouseover the top of the screen to see the controls). You can also mouse-over the bottom of the screen to see minature thumbnails, then click to see any photo.

Want to see this slide show even larger? Click here.

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Maddy’s Photos from SCIFL – May 19, 2007

Sunday, May 20th, 2007

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Created with Paul’s flickrSLiDR.

We are pleased to share a new slide show, of photos taken by our ace photographer, Maddy Flanagan on Saturday, May 19, 2007 of the SCIFL (So Cal Independent Fastpitch League) weekend tournament in Santa Fe Springs, CA. This one is posted here via the online photo service, Flickr, with the addition of some fancy coding by Paul Stamatiou that allows us to post directly to the Morning Brief blog. Drop us a line and let us know what you think: maddy (at) maddysphotos.com Note that you can control the speed of the slideshow using the little slider at the top. (mouseover the top of the screen to see the controls). You can also mouse-over the bottom of the screen to see minature thumbnails, then click to see any photo.

(If you get a “no photos” message, just click refresh to reload them)

Click here to see larger photos.

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Some News from Illinois

Saturday, May 19th, 2007

Ed.note: Writer Jeff Profitt is a member of the Fastpitchwest Forum.

From the Du Quoin Evening Call

Elkville, Kelso Split Fastpitch Opener

By Jeff Profitt/American News Service
Elkville pitcher Les Wood struck out eight batters in a one-hitter Sunday. Jeff Profitt photo.

Les Wood carried a no-hitter into the sixth inning Sunday afternoon, eventually settling for a one-hitter as Elkville Fastpitch defeated Kelso, Mo. 3-1 in the season opening game for both squads.

The Southeast Missouri squad held on to win game two, 6-5.

Elkville gave Wood plenty of cushion in the third inning, touching Kelso ace Tommy Jansen for all three of its runs.

Waylon Leonard and Lance Bedar singled with Leonard scoring on Drew Porter’s RBI double. Barry Maynor then chased Bedar and Leonard to the plate with a two-run single.

Elkville had nine hits in the victory with Leonard going 2-for-3.

Shawn Hunter and Greg Winchester also hit safely.

Wood struck out eight and walked four.

Kelso made an early two-run edge stand up in game two, holding back a late rally by the host team.

Ahead 6-1 in the fifth, Kelso surrendered two runs on RBI hits from Porter and Maynor.

The lead sliced to 6-5 in the sixth following a pair of Kelso errors. Elkville, however, could get no closer.

Mike Goldman and Troy Downen handled the pitching duties.

At the plate, Maynor and Porter each had two hits. Trent Tuthill tripled. (more…)

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Tale of Two Cities in So Cal

Friday, May 18th, 2007

Two Cities, Two Tournaments, Two “Springs”

It will be a busy fastpitch weekend in So Cal, with teams competing in tournaments at two separate locations.

Fourteen ISC and ISC II level teams will be competing in the Palm Springs Classic, hosted by the So Cal Bombers, and includes 3 of the top 10 teams in the world (the Bombers, Vancouver Grey Sox and Circle Tap) and 3 more in the top 25 (Portland, Pueblo CO, and Houston, TX). Click here for the schedule of games and other details.

Meanwhile, just up the road in Santa Fe Springs, CA, NAFA A Major and A ten more teams will be competing in another SCIFL (So Cal Independent Fastpitch Association) League Weekend. Click here for the schedule of games and details.

Twenty-four (24) teams in all ! Who says they don’t play fastpitch in So Cal?

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2007 ISC Out of Region Players

Friday, May 18th, 2007

Ed. Note: From the ISC website via Al’s Fastball , the “Out of Area Players List” — players signed by teams outside their regions. See the ISC rules as to the limitations and costs regarding same.

2007 ISC Out of Region Players – By Team

Note: The ISC General Fund will retain $100 per Out of Region player. The remaining funds will be divided 50-50 between the ISC World Tournament Team Travel Fund and the ISC Developmental program (youth).

Team Name & ISC Region
Player Name(s) Home Region $100 $300

Albaugh, Inc. – US Central
Perkins, Phillip “Sonny” US West X

Ashland Mets – US East
Berube, Tom Canada East X
Long, Gerard International X
Wilson, Jeff Canada East X

Aspen Interiors – Canada West
Jackson, Andy Canada East X

Bloomington Stix – US Central
Cameron, Thomas International X
Matroni, Bruno International X
Montero, Maxi International X
Montero, Pablo International X
Tessore, Matias International X
Zambrano, John International X

Broken Bow Gremlins – US East
Basurto, Frank US West X
Burnett, Don Canada East X
Duran, Moises US West X
Gonzales, Alfonso US West X
Kirkpatrick, Andrew International X
Manley, Jeremy International X
Martin, Jarrad International X
Nukunuku, Nathan International X
Rosthenhausler, Bob US West X
Shannon, Patrick International X

California Lumberkings – US West
Egerdeen, Mike Canada West X
Nimmo, Jon Canada West X
Strang, Darren Canada West X

Casa Trejo So Cal Bombers – US West
Box, Darren Canada West X
Crawford, Greg Canada West X
Evely, Geoff Canada East X
Ghostkeeper, Chad Canada West X
LaLonde, Adam US East X
Potskin, Evan Canada West X
Rodriguez, Orlando US East X
Tilley, Darrell Canada West X
Whitten, Sean Canada West X

Circle Tap – US Central
Bramwell, Matt Canada East X
Ferguson, Chad US East X
Magnusson, Kyle US West X
McKenzie, Collin Canada West X
Perez, Frankie US East X
Schucker, Steve US East X

Cutro Professional Inspections – US East
McCallum, Mark Canada East X
Winship, Shaun Canada East X

Dolan & Murphy – US Central
Mach, Jonas International X
Potolicchio, Juan International X

Elkland Fastpitch – US East
Garrity, Gregg Canada East X
Smith, Jason Canada East X

The Farm Tavern – US Central
Abbott, Colin Canada East X
Gareau, Korrey Canada West X
Gervasutti, Sebastian International X
Goolagong, Jeff International X
Gray, Rob Canada East X
Hale, Donny International X
Hill, Jason Canada East X
Rosebush, Paul US West X
Shellenburg, Kevin Canada West X
Winters, Zenon International X

Hamilton Hawks – Canada East
Smith, Chuck US East X

Houston Aces – US Central
Bahler, Roberto International X
Echave, Guillermo US West X
Felix, Lauro US West X
Orosco, Ramses US West X
Sabate, Sisko International X

Keating Fitness – US East
Fawcett, Robert Canada East X
Yates, James US East X

Kitchener Hallman Twins – Canada East
Budke, Todd US West X
Eidt, Jody US East X
Miller, Blake US East X

Midland Explorers – US East
Crawford, Craig Canada East X
Joseph, Mike Canada East X
Patterson, Grant Canada East X

MinnDak Millers – US Central
Gosse, Ward Canada East X
Price, Travis US West X

Orillia Quaker Riversharks – Canada East
Brand, Ryan Canada West X
Gasaway, Mike US East X
Miljavac, Chris US Central X
Ormsby, Glenn Canada West X
Wenstsrum, Kelly Canada West X

Patsy’s – US East
Folkard, Adam International X
Makea, Thomas International X
Milne, Daniel International X
Moraga, Omar US West X
Muizelaar, Gerald US Central X
Ratu, Stephen International X
Rona, Brad International X
Southam, Travis International X
Scheller, Rob Canada West X
Wilson, Travis International X

Plangger’s Furniture – US East
Brown, Wayne “Doc” US Central X

Pueblo Bandits – US West
Barraza, Efrain US Central X
Hillhouse, Bill US East X
Manley, Regan International X
Morales, Joe US Central X

Quad City Sox – US Central
Farion, Jeff Canada West X
Kelly, Harold Canada East X
Twordik, Brad Canada West X

South Lebanon/TNT – US East
Tracy, Jeremy Canada East X

Thomson Area Merchants – US Central
Eden, Casey International X
Manson, Steven International X
Miller, Rory Canada East X

Townline – US Central
Darby, James International X
Guerrinieri, Gustavo International X
Guerrinieri, Jose Alberto International X
Laulu, Wayne International X
McLean, Stacy International X
Neemia, Aaron International X
Petric, Fernando International X
Shailes, Nick International X

Vancouver Grey Sox – Canada West
Leonardo, Eduardo International X
Taveras, Jordan International X

Here is the same list, in alphabetical order: (more…)

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