NAFA MASTER\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S WEST WORLD SERIES
\n(Carson City, NV.) September 21, 2009
\nPerfect weather again for the West Masters and the Final Event of the Year will be the Las Vegas Battle of the East and West October 17-18. Any team that participated in the East or West Masters may attend. It is a 4-game guaranteed event starting at 9am Saturday with the final at 3pm on Sunday. Saturday night the East Champ will play the West Champ in each age group.<\/p>\n
Special thanks to Carson City Staff Joel & Jeremiah and their concessions and field prep staff. Thanks to KC for doing a great job with the scorekeepers, Sylvia Isaac on stats, Bob Chapel for doing an excellent job as Tournament Director, Carley Parish as UIC and thanks to Pat Bucknell and Dewey Yoke for supervising the games down at Field 1, Kris Russom with souvenirs and Melissa and Mikel who handled the gates.<\/p>\n
Final Order of Finish and All World Selections are below as we are having some issues with our website getting the info loaded.<\/p>\n
Congratulations to the Champions of this year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s West event:
\n35 & over \u00e2\u20ac\u201c CR Rockers, Portland in a slugfest over Taylor Farms\/IAC
\n40 & over \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Cal State Builders in a battle over Long Beach Black Sox, (Utah was upset by the Black Sox in semis)
\n45 & over \u00e2\u20ac\u201c QMax from Calgary, Canada over Santa Barbara Fog
\n50 & over – Bay Area Merchants over Texas Stars\/Si Senor-AZ (Texas Stars knocked off Ohio Battery in the Semis)<\/p>\n
For the complete brackets and All-World Teams, please see the results on our web site at www.nafafastpitch.com .<\/p>\n
The teams voted overwhelmingly to return to Carson City for the West Masters next year on the same weekend September 17-19 in 2010, two weekends after Labor Day. They also voted to keep the same four-game guarantee format with one round robin Friday night game at 5PM or later, two more round robin games on Saturday that seed all teams into a single elimination on Sunday. The championship games will be scheduled at 4:45PM or earlier and preferably at 3PM.<\/p>\n
The teams in the 35 asked us to drop the age limit from 35 to 30 for next year and we will do that but will probably make everyone be 30 in the calendar year, no three year grace period, like we do with the 55 division. The teams wished to continue using the NAFA ball but nearly 50% want to change to a yellow ball for visibility, especially for night games which was consistent with the input we got from the East Teams. Almost half the people wanted to allow the courtesy runner be the last out like the present. They would also like a player not in the game to be able to be a designated runner once per inning. I will give other players and coaches the chance to fill out the survey for another week and post the rest of the survey results as soon as possible.<\/p>\n
To the teams that have made NAFA the first choice in Masters play, we thank you for your support. 60 master\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s teams from the U.S. and Canada are participating this year in the East and West and the growth is surely due to your participation and your willingness to give input to our NAFA Directors who guide your program and it is truly the “Players Program”.<\/p>\n
Teams in the West pleaded for some rule to make the games stay on time which would be a time limit or an inning limit for next year. The awards, fields, field preps, ball, format, , supervision, the friendliness, openness & willingness to make things right, along with the camaraderie between the teams in the Masters program is unmatched anywhere. Overall the umpiring was very good and consistent (of course we all wanted that one call that went against us to be corrected).<\/p>\n
From the 31 year old who is turning 32 this calendar year to the 71 year olds(there are 7 of them), the NAFA Masters program is supremely successful because of you the players. We wrote down pitching velocities for most pitchers and the new player photo ID check went well and was well received and appreciated by all coaches.
\nEvery event is not without hiccups and we had a couple dealing with a few pitching plates and long games, but we made every attempt to make them right when they were brought to our attention.<\/p>\n
Thanks to each and every player, coach and spectator for making this an event to remember.<\/p>\n
ALL-WORLD AWARDS
\n35-Over
\nMVP John Bishop, CR Rockers Pitcher
\nMost Valuable Pitcher, Keith Fry, Taylor Farms\/IAC
\nBrian Ree, CR Rockers
\nKevin Rasmussen, CR Rockers
\nJohn Simmers, CR Rockers
\nRick Martin, CR Rockers
\nBobby Harris, CR Rockers
\nJeff Twist, Taylor Farms\/IAC
\nJason Porto, Taylor Farms\/IAC
\nGreg Glacier, Taylor Farms\/IAC
\nLarry Michaudo, Taylor Farms, IAC
\nJunior Keizer, Dresslerville
\nRob Lopez, Dresslerville
\nDorcy Tom, Dresslerville
\nJack Andreas, Oregon Masters
\nMark Connolly, Oregon Masters<\/p>\n
40-Over
\nMVP Paul Reyes, Cal State Builders
\nMost Valuable Pitcher Paul Algar, Cal State Builders
\nMario Periaria, Cal State
\nDuey Christenson, Cal State
\nCraig Budrock, Cal State
\nSteve Garcia, Cal State
\nEddie Martin, Black Sox
\nDave Demaio, Black Sox
\nAnthony Rocha, Black Sox
\nFred Hanker, Black Sox
\nRonn Rupp, Black Sox Pitcher
\nTony Corda, Fat City
\nTodd Hodge, Fat City
\nMarc Benjamin, Utah FP
\nTommy Gray, Utah FP
\nGin Barnes, Utah FP
\nJay Johnson, So Cal Bandits
\nDean Clark, Yard Dogs
\nRuss Wedmore, Tule Lake
\nRay Thompson, RMC Builders<\/p>\n
45-Over
\nMVP Tony Phillips, QMax
\nMost Valuable Pitcher, Rob Scheller, QMax
\nRandy Bell, QMax
\nLanky Johnson, QMax
\nGlen Bush, QMax
\nMitch Ventura, Fog
\nPhil Hernandez, Fog
\nRuss Arellanes, Fog
\nTim Gerund, Santa Rosa
\nTom Dower, Santa Rosa
\nTony Lopez, Santa Rosa
\nDennis Brownfield, Savala
\nKirk Jackson, Savala
\nHerman Augerhole, Tulsa
\nLance Day, Tulsa
\nKelly Wenstrom, Ladner
\nSam Aldridge, Ladner<\/p>\n
50-Over
\nMVP Ray Biagina, Bay Area Merchants
\nMost Valuable Pitcher Ray Camacho, Bay Area Merchants
\nChris Newbold, Bay Area
\nLarry Scheffield, Bay Area
\nLonnie Brooks, Texas Stars\/Si Senor
\nPhil Cain, Texas Stars\/Si Senor
\nPaul Rubin, Texas Stars\/Si Senor
\nMike Hazel, Texas Stars\/Si Senor
\nKevin Engelhart, Boise Fog
\nBrian Stanton, Boise Fog
\nGreg Wertz, Yard Dogs
\nDan Zupp, Yard Dogs
\nGreg Fleener, Nevada
\nKirk Long, So Cal Relics
\nTerry Sporrong, Seattle FP
\nKen Hall, Ladner
\nJimmy Huerta, Ohio Battery<\/p>\n
—
\nBenjie Hedgecock
\nNAFA Executive Director
\nNafafastptich ( a t ) gmail.com
\nwww.nafafastpitch.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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