Day 2 Recap from Pan-Ams – Sept. 17, 2012 – (Canada, Mexico 4-0)

September 18, 2012 by fpw

Rough (Google) Translation of Day 2 Recap (shown below in Spanish/en Espanol)

VIII Pan American Championships Senior Men’s Softball
COLOMBIA DID “TABLES” TO WIN A GAME AND LOSE ANOTHER
The second day had 16 hours of sporting action

Medellin – Antioquia.La Colombian delegation participating in the Pan American Championships Senior Men’s Softball, in their two matches of the second day of competition, scored a victory and a defeat in their quest to obtain one of the five slots having this tournament to qualify the greatest finals in New Zealand next year.

In the maximum scenario Medellín Softball sports, stadium “Oswaldo Osorio” were experienced 16 hours of pure action “soft ball” on a day that began at 9:00 am on September 17 and ended with the match between Colombia vs. Canada at 1:20 am Tuesday 18 with a convincing win team north of the continent by winning 15 races at 2 to combined patriotic.

Previously, players were imposed Colombian party in a closed marker Guatemalans by one stroke to 0 in eight innings of play, where pitchers Escorcia Ramón Luis Figueroa of Colombia and Guatemala, were the most important figures to keep hitters off circulation almost the entire game. The meeting was defined in the bottom of the eighth inning with a drive around the centerfield of Colombian Marwin who urged William Marin Hernandez located at the time at second base.

The nine games played in this conference had the following results: 2 Argentina 3 Guatemala, Dominican Republic 0 Venezuela 8, Venezuela 1 Argentina 0, 0 Argentina 10 Puerto Rico, Colombia 1 Guatemala 0, Colombia 2 Canada 15, Canada 5 Bahamas 0, Ecuador 0 Bahamas 9 and Ecuador 2 Mexico 9.

Schedule of Games for Day 3, Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Looks like the feature games today will be the 1pm battle between 2-2 Argentina and 4-0 Canada at 1pm CDT, and the 5pm and 7pm nightcaps between the host, 2-1 Colombia and 4-0 Mexico and 3-1 Venezuela, respectively.

Five (5) teams will advance to the ISF World Championships in New Zealand in March. At present, the five would be:

1. Mexico (4-0)
2. Canada (4-0)
3. Venezuela (3-1)
4. Colombia (2-1)
5. Argentina (2-2)

MARTES, SEP 18/2012
9:00 AM 19 ECUADOR GUATEMALA
11:00 AM 20 ECUADOR CANADA
1:00 PM 21 ARGENTINA CANADA
3:00 PM 22 BAHAMAS MEXICO
5:00 PM 23 COLOMBIA MEXICO
7:00 PM 24 COLOMBIA VENEZUELA

MARTES, SEP 18/2012
9:00 AM 25 VENEZUELA PUERTO RICO
11:00 AM 26 DOMINICANA PUERTO RICO
1:00 PM 27 DOMINICANA GUATEMALA