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Softball Canada has put together an outstanding media guide with bios of all of the players. Click here to view the full color PDF.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Canadian Men\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Softball Team ready to challenge for XII ISF Men\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s World Championship Title<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n (Saskatoon, SK) \u00e2\u20ac\u201c The Canadian Senior Men\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s National Team will be looking to challenge for top spot at the XII ISF World Championship, which will take place in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan from July 17th to 26th. New Zealand is the three-time defending world champions, having defeated Canada in the Championship game the last time the event was held in 2004, which was held in Christchurch, New Zealand.<\/p>\n The athletes who will represent Canada at the XII ISF Men\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s World Championship in Saskatoon, SK from July 17-26 are:<\/p>\n Athletes Number Home Town<\/strong><\/p>\n 1. Colin Abbott 20 St. John\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s, NL Staff<\/strong><\/p>\n Mark Smith Head Coach Falmouth, NS Sixteen (16) teams will participate at the event, which will be split into two pools for round-robin play. Each team will play seven games against the other teams in their pool, as the top four teams from each pool will advance to the playoff round. The pool breakdown will be:<\/p>\n Pool A \/Pool B Team Canada Schedule:<\/strong><\/p>\n July 17th – Canada vs. Argentina \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 7:00pm (CDT) The XII ISF World Championship website can be found at www.2009worldmensfastpitch.com<\/strong><\/a>, while Team Canada game reports will be available on the Softball Canada website (www.softball.ca<\/strong><\/a>).<\/p>\n -SC-<\/p>\n For more information, please contact:<\/p>\n Gilles LeBlanc (click logo to visit the official ISF XII World Championships website) Softball Canada has put together an outstanding media guide with bios of all of the players. Click here to view the full color PDF. Canadian Men\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Softball Team ready to challenge for XII ISF Men\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s World Championship Title (Saskatoon, SK) \u00e2\u20ac\u201c The Canadian Senior […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3443"}],"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=3443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/images2\/ISF.2009.logo.200.jpg\"){kind=logo}
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\n2. Craig Crawford 8 Markham, ON
\n3. Jody Eidt 22 Mitchell, ON
\n4. Jeff Ellsworth 19 St. Lawrence, PEI
\n5. Trevor Ethier 17 Saskatoon, SK
\n6. Ian Fehrman 14 Townsend, ON
\n7. Rob Giesbrecht 42 Landmark, MB
\n8. Dean Holoien 72 Melfort, SK
\n9. Dale Levy 30 St. Mary\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s, ON
\n10. Todd Martin 51 Bracebridge, ON
\n11. Derek Mayson 29 North Vancouver, BC
\n12. Keith Mackintosh 9 Melfort, SK
\n13. Steve Mullaley 33 Freshwater, NL
\n14. Sean O\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Brien 12 St. John\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s, NL
\n15. Kevin Schellenberg 6 Squamish, BC
\n16. Nick Underhill 24 Campbell River, BC
\n17. Ryan Wolfe 77 Melbourne, ON<\/p>\n
\nRay Tilley Assistant Coach Woodstock, ON
\nMarty Kernaghan Assistant Coach Grafton, ON
\nDon Bates Assistant Coach Saskatoon, SK
\nGlen Boles Assistant Coach St. Catharines, ON
\nAdam Davies Athletic Therapist Ottawa, ON
\nBruce Marshall Athletic Therapist Ottawa, ON
\nBarry Smith Statistician Dartmouth, NS
\nHarvey Stevenson Operations Manager Victoria, BC<\/p>\n
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\nBotswana Argentina
\nDenmark Australia
\nGreat Britain Canada
\nJapan Czech Republic
\nMexico Indonesia
\nNew Zealand Puerto Rico
\nPhilippines South Africa
\nUnited States Venezuela<\/p>\n
\nJuly 18th – Canada vs. Czech Republic \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 6:30pm (CDT)
\nJuly 19th – Canada vs. Australia \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 3:30pm (CDT)
\nJuly 20th – Canada vs. Indonesia \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 6:30pm (CDT)
\nJuly 21st – Canada vs. Venezuela \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 6:30pm (CDT)
\nJuly 22nd – Canada vs. South Africa \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 3:30pm (CDT)
\nJuly 23rd – Canada vs. Puerto Rico \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 6:30pm (CDT)
\nJuly 24th – Playoff Round
\nJuly 25th – Playoff Round
\nJuly 26th – Bronze Medal Game \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 12:00pm (CDT)
\n– Gold Medal Game \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 3:00pm (CDT)<\/p>\n
\nManager – Marketing and Communications
\nSoftball Canada
\ngleblanc@softball.ca
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