{"id":21928,"date":"2013-08-18T12:32:50","date_gmt":"2013-08-18T19:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=21928"},"modified":"2013-08-18T12:47:01","modified_gmt":"2013-08-18T19:47:01","slug":"ellsworth-sacrifice-scores-winning-run-in-isc-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=21928","title":{"rendered":"Ellsworth sacrifice scores winning run in ISC final"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Click logo for original news story.<\/figcaption><\/figure>MOLINE, ILLINOIS — A sacrifice fly to deep right field by Jeff Ellsworth of Brooklyn. P.E.I. scored the winning run as Six Nations Hill United Chiefs defeated the New York Gremlins 1-0 in the tournament final of the International Softball Congress (ISC) Men\u2019s World Fast Pitch championship Saturday night in Moline Illinois.
\nThe winning run came in the bottom of the third extra inning of the game.<\/p>\n

From his hotel room Sunday morning, Ellsworth described the feeling. \u201cThis is (ISC) championship number three for me, but definitely this is the best one,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Ellsworth had a bases-loaded chance to end the game in the eighth inning, but didn\u2019t get the job done. \u201cA little too anxious, he said.
\nIn the bottom of the tenth, after Calvin Miller cranked a double and James Shields went in to pinch run, the Gremlins intentionally walked Brad Ezekiel and Jason Hill.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t believe I got that chance again,\u201d he admitted.
\n\u201cThey walked the batters intentionally to get back to me,\u201d Ellsworth said, adding, \u201cI looked for a pitch to hit and (Sean Whitten) threw me an inside pitch.\u201d Waiting under the ball at right field was one of Ellsworth\u2019s Team Canada teammates, Mathieu Roy.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe made a hell of a throw. It was very close (at the plate),\u201d <\/span> he said before the ump made the \u2018safe\u2019 call and the celebration erupted. It was so close, he said, that even the Chiefs reviewed a video replay following the celebration and had to slow down the replay to determine Shields\u2019 leg arrived at the plate just ahead of contact by the glove.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe had to be on his horse,\u201d Ellsworth said of Shields\u2019 run-scoring trip from third.<\/p>\n

While this is Ellsworth\u2019s third ISC championship, it is the first for fellow Islander Mitch Hardy, a pitcher from Alberton.
\nHardy was kept out of the game, however, because of the dominant pitching of Adam Folkard. After throwing a perfect game, including 15 strike-outs, against the Gremlins on Friday, Folkard was handed the ball again Saturday night and did not disappoint, allowing only two hits and a walk and striking out 22 Gremlins. The Chiefs were runners-up last year in an extra innings final, but Ellsworth said Folkard made a promise to the team that wouldn\u2019t be the outcome this year. \u201cHe was a man on a mission,\u201d he said of Folkard\u2019s play.
\nFolkard, who didn\u2019t allow a run the whole tournament, was named top pitcher and teammate and fellow Australian, second baseman Nick Shailes was named tournament MVP.<\/p>\n

The Gremlins are the same team the Chiefs played in the final of the American Softball Association tournament two weeks earlier with the same outcome. In that game Hardy pitched the final two innings and Ellsworth scored the winning run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MOLINE, ILLINOIS — A sacrifice fly to deep right field by Jeff Ellsworth of Brooklyn. P.E.I. scored the winning run as Six Nations Hill United Chiefs defeated the New York Gremlins 1-0 in the tournament final of the International Softball Congress (ISC) Men\u2019s World Fast Pitch championship Saturday night in Moline Illinois. The winning run […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21928","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-isc","8":"category-tournaments","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21928"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21943,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21928\/revisions\/21943"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}