Cap tip to Softball Canada for this story. OLIVIER BOSSÉ Le Soleil The headline above roughly translating to "Mathieu Roy, the only player from Quebec on Team Canada" [Rough Google Translation] (Québec) While Mathieu Roy toured the diamond, his career went around the world. Fastball player prepares to compete in the World Championship. Here are four destinations in … [Read more...]
Canada’s Tom Doucette Retires from Junior Men National Program
(Ottawa, ON) Softball Canada announces that Tom Doucette (Middle Musquodoboit, NS) has decided to retire from his position as Head Coach of the Junior Men's National Team Program. Following the 2012 ISF Junior Men's World Championship last November, Tom has decided to retire from the program. He led the Canadian Junior Men's National Team to a fourth place finish at the event. … [Read more...]
More on Reinstatement of Fastpitch to Pan-Am Games
From Softball Canada Men's and Women's Softball Selected to 2015 Pan American Games Program (Ottawa, ON) Softball Canada is extremely pleased to announce that both Men's and Women's softball have been added to program for the 2015 Pan American Games, which will take place from July 10-26, 2015 in Toronto, Ontario. The Men's and Women's softball events will each feature … [Read more...]
Men’s Fastpitch Reinstated to the Pan Am Games, to be played in Toronto, Canada in 2015
From ASA's Ron Radigonda: I am happy to announce that the Pan American Sports Organization met today in Jamaica and approved the reinstatement of Men's Fast Pitch Softball to the Pan Am Games to be played in Toronto, Canada in 2015. Men's Fast Pitch was last played in the Pan Am Games in Santo Domingo in 2003. Men's Fast Pitch was removed from the Pan Am Games in 2007 … [Read more...]
Softball Canada’s “Around the Horn” for February 2013
Click here to view Softball Canada's "Around the Horn" for February 2013, or view below. Cap tip to the following members of Team Canada who will be traveling to Auckland, New Zealand next month for the 2013 ISF World Championship: Athletes #42 Bryan Abrey (Richmond, BC) #51 Ryan Boland (St. John’s, NL) #44 Sean Cleary (Harbour Main, NL) #19 Jeff Ellsworth (St. … [Read more...]
No job too big or too small for Team Canada’s tradesmen
By Christine Rivet, Record staff WATERLOO – Team Canada’s renovation project has hired a local plumber and a local electrician. Waterloo apprentice plumber, infielder Brandon Horn, and pitcher Don Scott, an electrician in New Hamburg, will be among a host of newcomers hoping to bring Canada its first gold medal from the International Softball Federation’s world … [Read more...]
Hill United Chiefs Win 2013 AAU International Title
The Hill United Chiefs started the same way they left off last season - at the top. After capping a brilliant first season of senior fastball with a second-place finish at the 2012 International Softball Congress World Championships in August, the Chiefs kicked off the 2013 season by capturing their second-consecutive Amateur Athletic Union Men's International Fastpitch … [Read more...]