By Tony Smith
A Canadian team playing at the world’s top softball club tournament could effectively be dubbed the Toronto Black Sox.
Seven members of New Zealand’s silver medal winning squad at last month’s world softball championsips in Saskatoon, Canada will play for the Toronto Gators at the International Softball Congress (ISC) tournament in South Bend, Indiana next weekend.
Black Sox captain Nathan Nukunuku (Auckland) will don Gators garb which is, fittingly, white and black. He will be joined by brothers Ben and Thomas Enoka (Auckland), veteran sluggers Brad Rona (North Harbour) and Wayne Laulu (Wellington) and Hutt Valley pair, Nik Hayes (pitcher) and Tyson Byrne (infielder).
Former Black Sox utility Frank Pointon (Canterbury) and Auckland’s Samoan international Kallan Compain are also on the Gators’ roster, which contains just four Ontario natives.Wellington’s Jerome Raemaki, who was in great batting form for the Black Sox at the world championships playoffs, and, another New Zealand infielder, Joel Evans (Hutt Valley) will play for another Ontario outfit, the Kitchener Hallman Twins team with former Black Sox gold medal winning pitcher Jeremy Manley, now based in Bloomington, Illinois. Click here to continue reading at Stuff.co.nz