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\nAn ultra-competititve field of 35 teams is set for the 5th annual ISC II Tournament of Champions August 13-18 in Kitchener\/Cambridge.<\/p>\nHeadlining the field is the defending champion Elmira, ON Cubs, joined by host team Bridgeport, ON PROforma Braves. See below for the full list of teams.<\/p>\n
Each team will play four round robin pool games. The top three in each division, plus three wildcards, will advance to a single elimination playoff bracket.<\/p>\n
The pool assignments will be based on rankings where possible, with exceptions made to ensure teams from the same areas and\/or leagues are not playing each other in the round robin.<\/p>\n
The schedule will be released in late July.<\/p>\n
For further information, please contact:<\/p>\n
Blair Setford
\nISC II Commissioner
\nblairjs(at)rogers.com<\/p>\n
or<\/p>\n
Bob McGowan
\nISC II Vice-President
\njbob99(at)allstream.net<\/p>\n
1 Elmira, ON Cubs – Defending Champions
\n2 Port Elgin, ON Blue Devils – 2005 Finalist
\n3 Bridgeport, ON Braves – Host
\n4 Toronto, ON Champion Indians – Canada East TL
\n5 Saginaw, MI Up-to-Date Painting – Mid Michigan TL
\n6 Perkasie, PA Rise – Mid-Atlantic Area
\n7 Oswego, NY CPI – Northeast Area
\n8 Ashland, OH Merchants – Ohio Area
\n9 Bakersfield, CA California LumberKings – CA-NV Area
\n10 Denver, CO Colorado Rage – CO-NM-AZ Area<\/p>\n
11 Hermann, MO Black Gold – Gateway TL 1
\n12 South Lebanon, PA TNT – Mid-Atlantic TL
\n13 Harrisburg, PA PA Power – W IA-SD Area (invite)
\n14 Reading, PA Bob Hoffman\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Garage – MO-KS Area (invite)
\n15 Grande Prairie, AB Pride – Canada West TL
\n16 Yakima, WA JRW & Associates – WA-OR-BC Area
\n17 Thomson, IL Area Merchants – Iowa Area
\n18 Marshall, MI Rice Creek Lightning – Indiana Area
\n19 Sydney, NS Cardinals – Atlantic Canada
\n20 Elora, ON Wellington Brewers – Eastern Canada Area 1<\/p>\n
21 Ottawa, ON Team Easton Thunder – Eastern Canada Area 2
\n22 Tavistock, ON Smully\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Merchants – Illinois Area (invite)
\n23 Micksburg, ON Twins – Rainier (NorWest) TL (invite)
\n24 Mitchell, ON Mets – Western Fastball Alliance TL (invite)
\n25 Orangeville, ON Resolve Kings – WI Classic TL 1 (invite)
\n26 Glencoe, ON Astros – KOTA Travel League (invite)
\n27 Kingston, ON Cowboys – Tri-State TL (invite)
\n28 Kitchener, ON Phoenix Outlaws – Northern Illinois Area (invite)
\n29 Alvinston, ON Indians – Gateway TL 2 (invite)
\n30 Waterdown, ON Hammer – Northern Illinois TL (invite)<\/p>\n
31 Orrville, OH Orr Park Knights – Utah Area (invite)
\n32 Palermo, ON Athletics – Southeast Area (invite)
\n33 Harriston, ON Mercury\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s – Wisconsin Area 1 (invite)
\n34 Stittsville, ON 56ers – MidWest Softball Congress TL (invite)
\n35 Fitzroy Harbour, ON West Carleton Electric – WI Classic TL 2 (invite)
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\nEditor’s note: I am pleased to say that I will be back in the booth with the ISC II broadcast crew, streaming audio broadcasts of more than two dozen games, from Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. (Broadcast schedule due out in the coming weeks leading up to the tournament. Hope you’ll be able to tune in and join us.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From ISC II Commissioner Blair Setford, over at our companion blog for the ISC II, “The Deuce”: http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/thedeuce\/ An ultra-competititve field of 35 teams is set for the 5th annual ISC II Tournament of Champions August 13-18 in Kitchener\/Cambridge. Headlining the field is the defending champion Elmira, ON Cubs, joined by host team Bridgeport, ON […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}