From our friend in Argentina, Martin Jorge:
Rough Google Translation:
Argentina Men’s National Team staff will be starting later this month to Australia to play two important tournaments in the country. First, Argentina played on Australia’s Skins Tournament, 3 to 5 December, and then contest the Men’s Fastpitch Softball International Test Series, from 8 to 10 December. Our coach will play a minimum of 13 games in Australian lands, and both tournaments will be played at the Hawker International Softball Centre in Canberra.
The first commitment of our selected will be Australia’s Skins Tournament, one of the most important club tournament in Australia and the world. A total of 10 teams will contest the tournament, divided into two zones of 5 teams each. The teams participating along with Argentina are:
South Side Mariners (Western Australia – WA)
Monarchs (WA)
Raptors (New South Wales – NSW Under 19 State Team)
Comets (Victoria – VIC)
Mounties (NSW)
Northern Stars (NSW)
Victoria Point Sharks (Queensland – QLD)
Storm (Australia Capital Territory – ACT)
StrikeZone (ACT)
The fixture of the first phase of the tournament is as follows:
Friday December 3
9:00 a.m.
1 Selected Argentino V Storm
2 Southside Mariners V Northern Stars
10:50 a.m.
1 Selected Argentino V Southside Mariners
V Mounties Monarchs 2
24:40
1 Victoria Point Sharks V Mounties
2 Monarchs V Raptors
2.30pm
Northern Storm V 1 Stars
2 Victoria Point Sharks V Raptors
4.20pm
1 V Melbourne Northern Stars
2 Southside Mariners V Storm
6.10pm
Raptors V 1 TSAR
Melbourne V 2 Selected Argentino
8.00pm
1 TSAR V Mounties
2 Monarchs V Victoria Point Sharks
Saturday, December 4
9:00 a.m.
1 Melbourne V Southside Mariners
2 Raptors V Mounties
10:50 a.m.
1 V Melbourne Storm
2 Victoria Point Sharks V TSAR
24:40
1 Stars V Selected Northern Argentine
TSAR V Monarchs 2
For his part, from December 8 will play Argentina Men’s Fastpitch Softball International Test Series with Australia Green, Australia Gold and New Zealand. Note that in this competition Argentina will face World Champion (Australia, this time divided into two teams) and the runner of the World (New Zealand), which marks the level of demand that will be the challenge for our team. The fixture of the tournament is as follows:
Wednesday, December 8
Australia 1 Australia Gold vs Green
2 Argentina vs New Zealand
Green vs Argentina 3 Australia
4 New Zealand vs Australia Gold
Thursday, December 9
5 New Zealand vs Australia Green
6 Australia vs Argentina Gold
7 Australia Australia Green vs Gold
8 Argentina vs New Zealand
Friday, December 10
9 Australia vs New Zealand Green
Gold vs Argentina 10 Australia
11 Argentina vs Australia Green
12 New Zealand vs Australia Gold
March 13 vs 4 º º
January 14 º vs 2 º
It is recalled that the Head Coach of Argentina Eduardo Sabaté Selection announced last month the 19 players who made this tour:
1-Bittor, Nicholas Paraná
2-Bolzán, Kevin Paraná
3-Brandauer, Juan Bahia Blanca
4-Cáceres, Mauricio Bahia Blanca
5-Ferrara, Lautaro Paraná
6-Godoy, Gustavo Paraná
7-Godoy, Manuel Paraná
8-Guerrinieri, Gustavo Paraná
9 – Jiménez, Nicolás Bahía Blanca
10-Malatesta, Marcelo Paraná
11-Montero, Mariano Paraná
12-Montero, Maximiliano Paraná
13-Montero, Pablo Paraná
14-Motroni, Bruno Paraná
15-Petric, Fernando Paraná
16-Potolicchio, Juan Paraná
17-Rúa, Fernando Buenos Aires
18-Sabaté, Paraná Francisco
19-Sacks, Paraná Germain
The campus held a rally on the weekend of 27 and 28 November in the city of Paraná, land before leaving for Australia. Along with the merger, on November 27 will be a press conference to present this tour.
Martin Jorge
Head of Media and Communication
Softball Confederation Argentina
Editor’s note: Do you think Parana is the fastpitch capital of Argentina? (Host for the 2012 ISF Jr. Worlds)