{"id":13595,"date":"2011-08-07T23:30:36","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T06:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=13595"},"modified":"2011-08-07T23:30:36","modified_gmt":"2011-08-08T06:30:36","slug":"great-britains-parkerson-sisters-earn-2012-trip-to-the-yukon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=13595","title":{"rendered":"Great Britain’s Parkerson sisters earn 2012 trip to the Yukon"},"content":{"rendered":"

By RUSTY BRYAN <\/em><\/p>\n

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RONCHI DEI LEGIONARI, Italy — Sisters Morgan and Ali Parkerson, who combined to make the All-Europe team five times when they played for the Lakenheath Lancers and who now start for the national fast-pitch softball team of Great Britain, can plan on spending part of next summer at the International Softball Federation’s World Championships at Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Canada.<\/p>\n

With Morgan, 23, playing first base, and Ali, 19, at second, the Brits downed the Czech Republic 2-0 Friday night to advance to the losers-bracket final and clinch third place in the 20-nation event which ended Saturday. The top three teams from the European tournament qualified for next summer’s Worlds.<\/p>\n

Ali Parkerson managed the family’s lone hit, a single, in four combined at-bats against the Czechs.<\/p>\n

In Saturday’s losers-bracket final, the sisters were a combined 0-5 in a 1-0 loss to Italy that sent the Italians to the tourney title game. Paola Cavallo two-hit Great Britain in the game, Italy’s second 1-0 tourney victory over the Brits. Stella Terazzi three-hit Britain on July 31.<\/p>\n

Italy’s staff was less effective in Saturday’s title game, surrendering 10 runs to tourney champion Netherlands in a 10-3 defeat.<\/p>\n

The trip to the Worlds, which will take advantage of the 20 hours of daylight which characterzie a Yukon summer day, will be the second for Morgan Parkerson. A graduate of Western Washington University, Morgan Parkerson played on the British team in the 2010 Worlds in Caracas, Venezuela. Ali Parkerson, a sophomore at Western Oregon University, is in her first season with the British national team. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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