Palmdale CA - July 30, 2001
 
The Web Site Committee of the International Softball Congress (ISC) has now added five more games to it's growing archival database of streaming audio. The newly added games are from the recently completed Best Of The West Men's Fastpitch Softball Tournament at Palmdale, CA, won by the Larry H. Miller Toyota team of Salt Lake City, Utah. The Miller Team defeated The SoCal Bucks and their pitcher Mark Bennet 6-0 in the Championship game. This was Miller Toyota's final tune-up before attempting to win the ASA Major National Championships, and ISC World Tournament, in the next 3 week period.
 
Miller Toyota's Brandon Burt, the burly First Baseman / Designated Player won the Tournament Most Valuable Player Award, with 9 hits in his 15 official At Bats, for a sizzling .600 Batting Average.
 
Dewey Dyck, Miller Toyota pitcher posted a 2-0 won loss record for the Tournament, with both wins coming over the SoCal Bucks, first in the Saturday Round Robin game, and then in the Championship game. In winning the Tournament's Outstanding Pitcher Award, Dyck struck out 25, and gave up only 4 hits, in his twelve innings of shut-out work, taming the usually powerful bats of the Bucks.
 
"Unfortunately, the audio production quality of our webcasts from The Best of the West Tournament, was somewhat problematic. It was definitely not as good as our previous Pioneer Days Tournament coverage from the press Box at the Big Cottonwood Softball Complex.

It really helps to be inside an enclosed Press Box,  especially when conditions are as windy as it was in Palmdale," said Dave Blackburn, Producer of the Best of The West Tournament webcast.
 
"I was happy to recently learn that we will be in our own enclosed room within the Gelein Field Press Box, when we produce our live audio Webcasts of game coverage from the 2001 ISC World Tournament. I am confident that the overall quality of our live audio production from Eau Claire will certainly exceed the fidelity of our original test at the 2001 Pioneer Days Tournament." Blackburn added.
 
Games covered live from the best of The West Tournament in Palmdale that are now available in the Archives include the following 5 games :
   
(1) The SoCal Bucks 5-4 Victory over the Fresno Team Lyons.
Mark Bennett gets the pitching victory over Mike Lorange.
 
 (2) Miller Toyota's 4-1 victory over Fresno team Lyons.
Pete Meredith's 14 Strikeout performance gets victory over Tony Peoples.
 
  (3) Miller Toyota's 3-0 victory over The SoCal Bucks. Dewey
Dyck's 3 hits, and 17 strikeouts paced Miller Toyota over Mark Bennett.
 
 (4) Miller Toyota's 6-2 win over Quest Fastpitch of Lakewood. 19 Y.O. NZ native
Thomas Cameron gave up 6 hits, and struck out 6 to best Dennis Webb.
 
 (5) Miller Toyota's 6-0 Championship game victory as Dewey Dyck gets his
second shut-out victory, with an 8-strikeout, 1-hitter over the SoCal Bucks.
 
Email reports have come in from fastpitch enthusiasts listening to the live and archived webcasts, from all around the world, in places like Australia, New Zealand, Argentina, Canada, and Mexico.  The games are now available on any Web connected computer in the world that can utilize the freely available Windows Media Player from Microsoft.
 
Our objective in this first year is to build a live audience of listeners, that will continue to grow through the ISC World Tournament Championship Game. It is hoped that the live worldwide online audience of listeners for the ISC Championship game outnumbers the total fans watching the ISC title game live, at Carson Park's Gelein Field, in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.
 
 
Dave Blackburn
California Area
ISC Commissioner
daveb@virtvent.com
Tel:   310 - 822 - 6743
Fax:   310 - 822 - 1673
Cell:  310 - 266 - 7803
www.VirtVent.com
 
 

Palmdale, CA - July 23, 2001 - The 2001 Annual Best of the West Men's Open Fastpitch Tournament

will be held on Saturday July 28, and Sunday July 29 at the 2-diamond fastpitch softball complex

located in George McAdam Memorial Park, in the City of Palmdale, CA. Mr. Roy Stout is the Umpire in Chief, and his capable crew in Blue will handle all of the umpiring duties. 

This is as good a field as we have ever had in the long history of this tournament." said Dave Blackburn,

Best of The West Tournament Director and ISC Area Commissioner for the state of California. "My work on

this 2001 Tournament is dedicated to the memory of the late Steve Gfellers, who always welcomed Men's

Fastpitch Tournaments into the City of Palmdale, and was a great supporter of the game."

Mr. Gfellers, who ran the softball program for the Parks and Recreation Department, at the city of Palmdale, suddenly passed away, of heart failure, earlier this summer,  at the tender age of only 44. Steve's tireless contributions to Men's fastpitch softball will be greatly missed here on the West Coast.