{"id":18572,"date":"2012-09-23T18:40:54","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T01:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=18572"},"modified":"2012-09-23T19:50:58","modified_gmt":"2012-09-24T02:50:58","slug":"shane-boland-pulls-off-a-rare-triple-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=18572","title":{"rendered":"Shane Boland pulls off a rare triple play"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Kenn Oliver, The Telegram<\/strong><\/p>\n

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He\u2019s believed to be the first Canadian player to win an ISC, junior national and senior national championship titles in same season<\/p>\n

As part of three championship teams in?August, Shane Boland, still just 21, accomplished more in one month than most softball players could hope for over an entire career on the diamond.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think about the accomplishments, but it\u2019s still hard to believe we came away with a win from all these big tournaments,\u201d says Boland..\u201cIt was a great month.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Goulds product\u2019s historic month began with him helping the Kelly\u2019s Pub Junior?Canadians claim a national junior men\u2019s title in Owen Sound,?Ont. With a pair of hits \u2014 including a home run \u2014 Boland was named the top player in the championship game as he collected his second national junior crown, having won in 2009 with a group of Junior Canadians teammates who were much older than he was at the time.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey weren\u2019t really close friends,\u201d he said of the 2009 team, \u201cbut when we won this year it was with my own group of buddies and it meant so much to me that they got to experience what it felt like.\u201d<\/p>\n

Immediately following the junior nationals, Boland hopped a flight for Midland,?Mich., and the International Softball Congress World Tournament, where he joined his brother, Ryan, and St. John\u2019s Molson Senior Men\u2019s Softball League counterpart Sean?Cleary on the Jarvis, Ont., Travelers, the defending ISC world tourney champs.<\/p>\n

And while Boland, an ISC circuit rookie this summer, didn\u2019t play a major role with the team, he did figure to the team successfully defending its title by scoring the winning run while pinch-running for Ryan?Wolfe in the eighth inning of the championship game against the Hill?United?Chiefs.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo be in those type of games, you have to step your level up to its peak and you\u2019ve always got to be there because everyone\u2019s a class act,\u201d Boland says. \u201cAt 21-years-old, to be in the championship game as part of the Jarvis Travelers was amazing.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t wait for next season to start.<\/p>\n

After returning home for five days to catch his breath, Boland was packing his bat and glove once again, this time bound for Fredericton,?N.B., with the 3Cheers Pub, one of three Newfoundland entries for the national senior softball championships.<\/p>\n

Boland played in six of the team\u2019s nine games at nationals, and while he wasn\u2019t involved in the rain-shortened championship clincher, the versatile player felt honoured to be part of the first Newfoundland team to win a national senior crown.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe thought it was our time to make a good run and go win this tournament and things worked out in our favour
\n\u201cThat was a big one.\u201d<\/p>\n

Boland is believed to be the first Canadian softball player to win an ISC, junior national and senior national championship team in the same season.<\/p>\n

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