Championship Bracket Final
Broken Bow Gremlins, NY – 4
Portland DeMarini, OR – 0
WP-Andrew Kirkpatrick (w/18 K’s)
LP-Bricklen Anderson
HR-Rhys Casley (BBG), 2 run HR in 1st inning
The Broken Bow Gremlins of NY are the 2007 Portland Rose Cup Champions.
Japan Gold, USA Silver, Venezuela Bronze
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ISF World Cup Prague – final – Sunday, June 24, 2007
Game 39
USA – 5
Venezuela – 2
Game 40
Japan – 2
USA – 0
WORLD CUP Men – Day 7, Championship – JAPAN WON THE FIRST WORLD MEN’S CUP
After embarrassing defeat from Japan US team came back today beating Venezuela 5:2. Travis Price threw a good game against dangerous Venezuelan hitters.
Championship Game:
Kunihiko Iida pitched one hitter game against USA in front of 4-5 thousand spectators in a live broadcast game of the Czech national TV. 8 hits by Japanese hitters made the difference. What stats does not show is we had the great game ended up with double play with runners on first and second, one out. Iida fielded the ground ball and instead of throwing to third he had turned the ball in to the second fo succesfull doulbe play, which ended the game. Crowd appreciated nice plays from both teams but Japan got their heart.
Individual awards:
Best Pitcher: Kunihiko Iida (Japan)
Best Hitter: Hiraku Yokoyama (Japan)
MVP: Christopher Delawelle (USA)
Homeruns: Frank De Groat Jr. (USA)
We had the best tournament ever played in Europe. Thanks to all teams, umpires and organizers for this great introduction of mens fastball to Europe !!!
Pavel Prachar
Championship Bracket Final:
Portland v. Broken Bow
Consolation Bracket Final:
CR/Adidas, OR – 15
Cleon’s Auto, WA – 2
WP-Mike Warren
LP-Tom Tungsvik
HR-Jason Aponte, Josh Agnew (CRA)
We’ll post scores as soon as they come in. Title game started about 4:30pm PST, due to several rain delays. Broken Bow up 3-0 over Portland, inning unknown.
Portland v. Broken Bow in Championship Final;
CR/Adidas vs. Cleon’s Auto in Consolation Final
CHAMPIONSHIP BRACKET
12:30pm Semi-final
Broken Bow Gremlins, NY – 9
So Cal Bombers, CA – 1
WP-Jeremy Manley
LP-Sean Whitten
HR-Landy Rodriguez (SCB); Jarrad Martin (BBG)
12:30pm Semi-final
Portland DeMarini, OR – 2
Vancouver Grey Sox, BC – 1
8 innings
WP-Mike Piechnik
LP-Rick Smith, in relief (7th) of Nick Underhill
HR-Brian Ree (P)
Todd Garcia drove in the game winning run with a single in the B8
CONSOLATION BRACKET
12:30pm
CR/Adidas, OR – 6
Mock Ford, OR – 2
WP-Mark Bennett
LP-Gerald Pyle
12:30pm
Cleon’s Auto, WA – 9
Central 9, BC – 5
WP-Tom Tungsvik
LP-Brad Avery
Championship game just underway, Portland DeMarini, OR v. Broken Bow Gremlins, NY
Games running behind schedule due to several rain delays. CR/Adidas OR vs. Cleon’s Auto, WA in Consolation Bracket.
CHAMPIONSHIP BRACKET
Remaining scores from the 10:30 games
Broken Bow, NY – 6
Larry Miller Hogs, UT – 0
WP-Andrew Kirkpatrick (w/17 K’s)
LP-Mike Lorange
Portland DeMarini, OR – 7
A-1/Taylor Farms, CA – 1
WP-Bricklen Anderson
LP-Doug Sleep, w/Darren Zack relieving in 3rd
Other: Brian Ree 3-4 with 2 doubles
Second rain delay over – 12:30pm Semi-finals underway
Broken Bow, NY vs. So Cal Bombers, CA
Portland DeMarini, OR vs. Vancouver, BC
So Cal Bombers, CA – 5
California Lumberkings, CA – 2
WP-Tony Peeples
LP-Mike Egerdeen
HR-Evan Potskin (SCB); Steve Pinnochio (SCB)
Vancouver Grey Sox, BC – 12
Romie’s Angels, CA – 0
WP-Rick Smith
LP-Tony Hunhoff
After 4 innings:
Portland De Marini leading A-1/Taylor Farms, 3-0
Short rain delay at present, but the Dopler weather radar shows clearing, play expected to resume about 1pm Oregon time.
Championship Bracket games underway at 10:30 am this morning, but here are the scores from the Consolation Bracket 8:30am games:
Consolation Round – Sunday, June 24, 2007
(bottom 3 teams in each pool – A5 & B5 get bye)
08:30am
B7 – Mock Ford, OR – 10
A6 – Team Yakima, WA – 9
11 innings
WP-Spud Barker
LP-Robinson
08:30am B6 vs. A7 Budweiser Field
Cleons Auto, WA v. AA Riteway
B6 Cleon’s Auto – 10
A7 – AA Riteway – 2
pitching – n/a (yet)
Games Underway Now:
Single Elimination Championship Bracket, Sunday, June 24, 2007
10:30am A1 vs. B4 GI Joes Field
Portland DeMarini v. A-1/Taylor Farms
*Just underway due to 8:30am game on that diamond going 11 innings *
10:30am B2 vs. A3 White Field
Vancouver Grey Sox, BC v. Romie’s Angels, CA
**5th inning update: Vancouver up 8-0 **
10:30am B1 vs. A4 Budweiser Field
Broken Bow NY vs. Larry Miller Hogs, UT
* 5th inn update: Bow up 4-0 *
10:30am A2 vs. B3 M&W Field
So Cal Bombers, CA vs. Cal Lumberkings, CA
*5th inning update: Bombers up 4-0*
If I am reading this right, looks like USA beat Venezuela, 5-2 today and then lost to Japan, 2-0 in the final. If so, that means Japan won both the World Baseball Classic and the Men’s World Cup Fastpitch tournaments this year.
Unofficial results:
Gold – Japan
Silver – USA
Bronze – Venezuela
We’ll update here as soon as we get official word out of Prague.
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41st Annual Eau Claire Classic – results
Sunday, June 24, 2007
Sunday Results:
41st Eau Claire Classic
Albaugh, Inc. vs Minn Dak Millers
Jun 24, 2007 at Eau Claire (Gelein)
9AM
GAME 12
Albaugh, Inc. 7 (3-1) Minn Dak Millers 2 (2-2)
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Prague, Czech Republic – June 21, 2007
Decos EHS upsets Denmark 10-7
In a very spectacular game which took more then 3 hours, the
Decos EHS team beats their European rivals from Denmark. A very
intense game where Decos EHS was always in command. Kiwi Michael
Cameron was 3-3 with a double and 2 RBI’s. Rody Stam went 2-4
with a triple and 3 RBI’s. Gillis and Welsh shared the pitching
duties and did a great job holding the Danish National Team to
only 8 hits.
Other scores on the official website via www.demo-ehs.nl
Boxscore:
Denmark 0-0-1-1-3-0-2 = 7-8-2
Decos EHS 3-0-1-0-2-3-1 = 10-9-1
Pitching:
Denmark: Martin Holmberg (LP) 7-5-6 (5inn)
Jesper Panduro 2-0-1 (1inn)
Decos EHS: Doug Gillis (WP) 3-4-2 (4.3 inn)
Jared Welsh 4-2-5 (2.7 inn)
Norman Ames
Decos EHS Fastpitch, Haarlem, The Netherlands
E-mail: norman.ames@gielissen.nl
Homepage: www.demo-ehs.nl