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Friday August 15, 2003: Noon am Wisconsin time
St. Joe's pitcher Rob O'Brien just staked himself to a 2-0 lead with a 2
run homer.
Photo of St. Joe's starter, Rob O'Brien, shown earlier in the year,
pitching in the Portland Rose Cup tournament
Friday August 15, 2003: 11:51 am Wisconsin time
Game just getting started, Rob O'Brien pitching for St. Joe Casino vs.
Midland Explorers
No
score after half inning, St.Joe coming to bat.
TEAM USA players for both teams are reportedly enroute to Kimberly, from
Pan Am games, and would make the 4pm game if their team is involved.
Friday August 15, 2003: 11:26 am Wisconsin time
Final score: Owen Sound 4, Circle Tap 1
Winning pitcher: Paul Koert
Losing pitcher: Dewey Dyck
Friday August 15, 2003: 11:26 am Wisconsin time
Owen Sound, runner at second with one out. Shot to centerfield, RBI
single by Simpson, Owen Sound leads 4-1. Inning ends, Circle Tap
coming to bat in the bottom of the 7th.
Friday August 15, 2003: 11:21 am Wisconsin time
Bottom 6th inning. Still 3-0 Owen Sound. Lead off walk for
Circle tap, one out, K by second hitter in the inning. Chris
Delarwelle popped to short for second out. Walked another, two on
and two outs, Todd Malnory is the batter....line drive base hit, drives in
one run, now 3-1, scoring Ellestadt.
Tying run at first with two out. Runner for Malnory, James Knudson.
Knudson cramped up, and Malnory re-enters. Kevin Reichardt flies out to
end the inning.
End of 6, score remains 3-0 Owen Sound.
3
runs, 6 hits for Owen Sound
0
runs, 4 hits for Circle Tap
Friday August 15, 2003: 10:55 am Wisconsin time
Top of the fifth about to get underway, Owen Sound 3, Circle Tap 0
Friday August 15, 2003: 10:40am Wisconsin time
Owen Sound
Selects leading Circle Tap 2-0 in T3 - Dyck pitching for CT, Koert for
Owen Sound.
From the
Appleton Post Crescent
http://www.wisinfo.com/postcrescent/sports/archive/sports_11771892.shtml
Posted Aug. 15, 2003
Pitcher Zack lifts County Materials to winBy
Jim Oskola
Post-Crescent staff writer
KIMBERLY — Waiting 2½ hours past the scheduled 7 p.m. start time of the
International Softball Congress World Tournament game between Mara-thon
County Materials and the Waterloo Hallman Twins wasn’t a problem for
Darren Zack.The burly right-hander pitched a complete-game three-hitter to
lead County Materials to a 5-0 win over the Twins at Sunset Point Park on
Thursday.“You’ve got to get pumped for this,” Zack said. “It’s the ISC,
and it doesn’t happen again till next year.”Zack mixed his pitches well
and allowed only two base runners, who reached via errors, through 4 2/3
innings before Jeff Spenser singled to break up the no-hitter.Twins
batters were swinging late on many of Zack’s pitches, leading to 12
strikeouts.“I was pretty well hitting the spots, and sometimes the ball
was moving nice,” Zack said. “It was just working right for me
tonight.”Hallman Twins first baseman Andy Jackson struck out twice against
Zack.“He had pretty good velocity and pretty much everything going
tonight,” Jackson said.Zack was given a two-run cushion to work with in
the first inning.Rob Gray led off the first for County Materials by
overpowering the second pitch from Twins pitcher Korrey Gareau, sending
the ball over the left-field bleachers.“He threw me a drop ball first
pitch and I thought he was going to come up,” Gray said. “Sure enough, he
did.”County Materials scored its second run of the inning on a single and
stolen base by Darrell Sandback, a walk to Shawn Rychcik and a pair of
wild pitches by Gareau.County Materials picked up two runs off Gareau in
the fourth inning when Patrick Shannon got hit by a pitch and Brad Rona
and Todd Schultz followed with a triple and double, respectively.“Korrey
threw real, real hard, I thought, but a little bit on the straight side,”
Gray said. “Hard and straight, eventually you will catch up with
it.”Gareau was relieved after the fourth inning, giving up seven hits and
one walk while striking out five.Shannon added an inside-the-park home run
in the sixth inning off Twins reliever Trevor Wardell to account for the
final run.
http://www.wisinfo.com/postcrescent/sports/archive/sports_11771910.shtml
Posted Aug. 15, 2003
Denmark Circle Tap wins twice in ISC
The Post-Crescent
Denmark’s Circle Tap improved to 6-1 Thursday night with a 7-5 win over
the Calgary Diamonds at the International Softball Congress World
Championships at Sunset Point Park in Kimberly.Both teams had 10 hits in
the slugfest. Denmark starter Dewey Dyke went the distance, struck out
three and walked one to earn the win.Circle Tap 8, Lafayette Pub 4Todd
Malnory homered and drove in three runs for Denmark’s Circle Tap, while
Don Garvey and Chris Delarwelle both had an RBI. The game was decided in
the first inning when Denmark scored five runs. Circle Tap added three
insurance runs in the sixth.County Materials 6, Frontier Casino 2Todd
Schultz went two-for-two and drove in two runs and Tom Montgomery went
three-for-four, including a home run, as Marathon County Materials beat
St. Joseph (Mo.) Frontier Casino Players.Marathon starter Lucas Mata (3-0)
worked 4 2/3 innings, striking out eight and walking one.Hallman Twins
3, Quad City Sox 1Tex Lessard had two hits and drove in two runs
as the Kitchener-Waterloo (Ontario) Hallman Twins beat the Davenport
(Iowa) Quad City Sox with single runs in the first, fourth and sixth
innings.Broken Bow Spirit 9, Calgary Diamonds 0Jarred Martin
drove in four runs and Jody Eidt had three RBI as Amsterdam (N.Y.) Broken
Bow Spirit beat the Calgary Diamonds. Broken Bow outhit Calgary 11-1.H.I.S.
Construction 4, DeMarini Merchants 2The Portland (Ore.) DeMarini
Merchants outhit Houston (Texas) H.I.S. Construction and held a 1-0 lead
through 3½ innings. Houston scored two runs each in the fourth and sixth
innings, making a winner of Rob Schweyer (2-1), who worked five innings,
striking out three and walking one.Madison The Farm 7, Owen Sound
Select 4Todd Budke had two hits and drove in two runs for Madison’s
The Farm Tavern. Paul Rosebush went three-for-four and Boomer Brush went
two-for three. Owen Sound (Ontario) Select stranded 10 runners.Fedlock
Falcons 9, Dolan & Murphy 0Charlie Sauer went three-for-three,
including a triple, and scored three runs for the Washington (D.C.)
Fedlock Falcons. Steve Sell added a home run. Brian Urquhart went the
distance, holding Aurora (Ill.) Dolan & Murphy Shamrocks to four hits.Midland
Explorers 2, Imaging Solution 1Both teams managed three hits in
a pitchers’ duel won by Grant Patterson (3-1) of the Midland (Mich.)
Explorers. He bested two pitchers for the Fargo (N.D.) Imaging Solution
Knights by walking four and striking out seven.Explorers 6, Quad City
Sox 3The Midland (Mich.) Explorers scored three runs in the top of the
11th inning to earn the win over the Quad City Sox. Midland starter Ty
McKinney worked 9 1/3 innings, walking one and striking out nine. Steve
Roberts led Midland, going three-for-five. Bill Kranz and Scott Lange both
homered for Quad City.Owen Sound Select 4, Fedlock Falcons 3One
run in the bottom of the seventh inning gave the Owen Sound (Ontario)
Select the win over the Washington (D.C.) Fedlock Falcons, who committed
two errors. Frontier Casino Players 5, H.I.S. Construction 0Bob
O’Brien pitched a one-hitter and struck out 15 to lead Frontier Casino
(St. Joseph, Mo.) to the victory. Frontier took control with three runs in
the bottom of the fifth and took advantage of three H.I.S. errors.
Wednesday’s late gamesH.I.S. Construction 3, Team Rainey 1Houston
(Texas) H.I.S. Construction outhit Whittier (Calif.) Team Rainey 7-2,
putting away the game by scoring two runs in the second inning.Circle
Tap 4, Page Brake 3Salt Lake City Page Brake committed two errors and
was outhit 12-7 in the narrow loss to Denmark’s Circle Tap. Jesse Ellestad
led Denmark by going three-for-four and scoring two runs. Delarwelle,
Malnory and Bill Miller had two hits each.
Canadian men's softball team wins seventh straight Pan Am title - USA
women's softball wins gold
By LORI EWING
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (CP) - Of all the gold medals Canadian
men's softball teams have won at the Pan Am Games, Thursday's was one of
the toughest to gain.
After a four-hour rain delay, Canada took to the soggy field at Juan
Pueblo Duarte Park to win their seventh consecutive Pan American Games
gold medal with a 4-2 victory over their perennial rival United States.
"It was important for us because we weren't the favourite this time,"
first baseman Mike Macumber said. "The U.S. won the qualifier and they
were the favourite.
"I play club ball all over North America and all I heard all year was the
Americans were going to be tough to beat."
The Canadian women's team, meanwhile, lost the gold-medal game 4-0 to the
United States. The Canadian women had also had to sit and wait through a
three-and-a-half hour delay when a torrential downpour sent people
scrambling for cover before a playoff game earlier in the day.
They defeated the Dominican Republic 4-2 to advance to the gold game which
began immediately following the playoff game.
The Canadian men won with a big sixth inning, led off by a double by
centre-fielder Rob Giesbrecht of Landmark, Man. Second baseman Bob Court
of Duncan, B.C., walked, then Ron White of Sebringville, Ont., hit a
double into the right-field corner.
"The first two at-bats he had come inside on me both times, so I knew he
might try again, so I just geared up and tried to drive it as hard as I
could, and luckily it got by the first baseman down the line and we got
two runs off it," said White.
"It's just an unbelievable feeling, you wait for that last strike, and
finally you get it and you let out a big yell, go mob everyone on the
field," added White, laughing.
Canada got on the scoreboard early when Giesbrecht hit a leadoff home run.
In the fourth, when the U.S. led 2-1, Giesbrecht led off the inning with a
single, followed by another single by Court, scoring Giesbrecht from first
base.
Canada, who went 7-0 in the tournament, has won all but the first softball
tournament at the Pan Am Games, and has played the United States in every
gold medal game.
It was the fifth Pan Am gold for Canadian coach Mark Smith. He played on
three Canadian winners, and has coached twice, as an assistant in 1999 in
Winnipeg, and head coach here.
"You never get tired of winning gold medals, you never get tired of
beating Americans," said Smith, who is from Halifax. "These kids came in
here considered second-best, a lot of these players hadn't been on the
national team before. They stepped up and refused to die, refused to let
anybody beat them."
White, a newcomer to the Canadian Pan Am team, said there was a bit of
pressure coming in to repeat.
"It's tough to repeat, and to do it seven times in a row, it's crazy,"
said White, a third baseman. "But as long as we played the way we could
play, then it was possible."
"We just knew if we played to our ability, we were the best team here and
some people outside of this doubted that," added Giesbrecht. "We proved to
them we're the best team here."
