Seeds for a gold medal

The comment below was posted to the page displaying the YouTube video of the 2015 WBSC World Championship gold medal game by Jim Williamson. As many/most of you know, Jim was one of the founders of the North Amnerican Fastpitch Association (NAFA) and is one of the game’s most asute observers.

I thought the comment warranted a blog post of its own, in case any of you missed it.

Jim Williamson says
July 8, 2015 at 12:55 pm

The seeds for Canada’s Championship in the WBSC World Championship were sewn at Softball Canada’s 2015 Senior Mens Championship. 3Cheers Pub/Bud Light won Softball Canada’s senior men’s championship in early September in Charlottetown, P.E.I., defeating another St. John’s based team, Kelly’s Pub Molson Bulldogs, in that sport’s first all-Newfoundland Canadian final.

It was the third straight national softball crown for 3Cheers Pub/Bud Light, erasing all those oh-so-close memories at the nationals. I watched nearly every game of that Championship. That was the most competitive tournament I have ever watched in my 50 years in the game. Canada’s players were well prepared for the WBSC Championship.