Team 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).