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From Codi Warren, USA Softball:<\/em><\/p>\n

STEVENS, Pa. \u00a0\u2014 Members of the 2017 USA Softball Men\u2019s National Team (MNT) arrived in Stevens, Pa., where the team will participate in the Rodney Fox Memorial Tournament.\u00a0 Team USA will compete in four games against local men\u2019s fast pitch teams on Saturday<\/span> before entering into the playoff rounds on Sunday<\/span>.<\/p>\n

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The USA Softball MNT will open play at 9 a.m. ET<\/span> against PA Power followed by a 10:45 a.m. ET<\/span> match against Kelly\u2019s.\u00a0 Back-to-back games later in the day against Kurtz (5:45 p.m. ET<\/span>) and Farmersville (7:30 p.m. ET<\/span>)\u00a0close out round robin games to determine the playoff bracket.\u00a0 Select games at the Rodney Fox Memorial Tournament will be live streamed, and links can be found on the tournament website by clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n

Click here to see the 2017 USA Softball Men\u2019s National Team roster<\/a><\/p>\n

The Rodney Fox Memorial Tournament is one of three events in which members of the 2017 MNT will compete in prior to the 2017 World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) Men\u2019s World Championship.\u00a0 The team will also participate in the Father\u2019s Day Memorial Tournament in Houston, Texas from June 16-18<\/span> and the Vancouver Challenge July 1-3<\/span> in Vancouver, B.C., Canada.\u00a0 The final 17-player roster for the 2017 USA Softball MNT will be determined prior to the WBSC Men\u2019s Women’s World Championship, which will be held July 4-17<\/span> in Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada.<\/p>\n

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With Denny Bruckert at the helm of the Men’s Program, the U.S. coaching staff also includes Greg Hicks (Bakersfield, Calif.), Gregg Leather (Staten Island, N.Y.) and Nick McCurry (Ashland, Ohio).<\/p>\n

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Live stats for all of Team USA\u2019s games at the Rodney Fox Memorial Tournament, recaps and more will be available at USASoftball.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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About USA Softball
\n<\/strong>USA Softball is a 501(c)(3) not-for profit organization headquartered in Oklahoma City, Okla., and is designated as the National Governing Body (NGB) of Softball in the United States and a member of the United States Olympic Committee. One of the nation\u2019s largest sports organizations, USA Softball sanctions competition in every state through a network of 70 local associations and has grown from a few hundred teams in the early days to over 150,000 teams today, representing a membership of more than 2 million. \u00a0USA Softball is dedicated to providing people of all ages the opportunity to play the game they love at a variety of levels by offering recreational, league, tournament and competitive play for fast pitch, slow pitch and modified pitch.\u00a0 USA Softball annually conducts thousands of tournaments throughout the country including over 100 National Championships. \u00a0The USA Softball umpire program is among the nation\u2019s largest and are widely known as the best trained umpires in the game.<\/em><\/p>\n

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As the NGB for the sport of softball, USA Softball is responsible for training, equipping and promoting the six USA Softball National Teams that compete in events such as the Olympics, Pan American Games, World Championships and other international and domestic events. For more information on USA Softball, including its founding and history as the Amateur Softball Association of America (ASA), please visit, www.USASoftball.com<\/a>.<\/em>
\nEditor’s note:<\/strong> \u00a0Here is the schedule of games starting tomorrow morning at 9AM EDT, 6AM (yawn) for those of us on the west coast:<\/p>\n