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Hickson, ON Reds win NAFA “AA”

Monday, August 25th, 2008



Hickson Reds won the NAFA “AA” Championship this weekend in Mankato, Minnesota, the sixth “AA” title for Ontario in the past 12 years.

Hickson won their first two games before losing a 1-0 decision to Waverly, MN Herda & Sons to drop into the loser’s bracket.

The Reds then knocked off Michigan Blues and Cerro Gordo, MN before avenging the defeat to Herda with a 6-3 win.

In the finals, Hickson took out Marquette Fence 3-0 and 2-1 to win the title.

Hickson joins Scarborough Royals, Colborne Rutherflo, Innerkip Eagles, Toronto Jaguars and Sebringville Sting as NAFA “AA” champions hailing from Ontario.

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Guido Silbert Pitches Young Bucks to National Title

Monday, August 18th, 2008


From David Blackburn:

Guido Silbert pitched the Young Bucks of Santa Barbara, CA to the under 23 North American Championships earlier today.

He got the win in the Championship Game for coach Clyde Bennett. I feel especially happy because I connected Guido with my old Santa Barbara coach Clyde Bennett, after we played in Argentina in Dec / Jan. Clyde put Guido up for the summer, and it paid off in a championship.

Dave Blackburn


Click here for the box score from the title game.


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Editor’s note: Guido was the winning pitcher for Argentina’s 19u Junior Men’s historic win over New Zealand, the first time Argentina had ever beaten New Zealand. That game concluded on a game-ending triple play ! Giudo also pitched in his team’s win over Team USA Juniors in the same tournament, held in June 2008 in Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada.

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ASA Cancels 40-and-over Nationals for Second Year in a Row

Monday, August 18th, 2008

The ASA, the National Governing Body for Softball, including men’s fastpitch, canceled the Men’s 40-and-over Nationals. Last yeasr’s 40-and-over and 45-and-over were canceled due to “lack of interest”. No details were available as to why the event was canceled this year.

Editor’s note:

Masters ballplayers looking for a place to compete can find information on the NAFA website, including this page.


(click logo for NAFA website)

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Amazonia Missouri Wins 2008 ASA Boys’ 16-Under Nationals

Monday, August 18th, 2008

Place M/R Team Name Hometown Record

1st Rockhounds Amazonia, MO 4-0
2nd Embroidery Touch Sioux Falls, SD 2-2
3rd Lake Crystal Blue Lake Crystal, MN 3-2
4th Andy’s Sioux Falls, SD 1-3
5th Young’s Prime Time Watertown, SD 0-3

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Kegel Wins NAFA AA-Major

Monday, August 18th, 2008

Order of Finish




Team Location W – L
1 Kegel Black Knights Fargo, ND 6 – 1
2 The Bar of Appleton 23s Appleton, Wisc 4 – 2
3 Wilber Lime Galesville, Wisc 3 – 2
4 New Image Monfort, Wisc 2 – 2
5 River City Rockers Sacramento, Cal 4 – 2
Rude-Pac Sun Valley, Cal 3 – 2
7 Earl’s Club Kenosha, Wisc 3 – 2
Herda & Sons Waverly, Minn 2 – 2
9 Brandt’s Springfield, Mo 2 – 2
Sioux Falls Sox Sioux Falls, SD 2 – 2
11 Pickseed Explorers Balcarres, Sask 0 – 3
Priority Mortgage Grand Rapids, Mich 0 – 3
RBC Lightning Rice Creek, Mich 0 – 3
The Bar of Appleton Athletics Appleton, Wisc 0 – 3

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Kitchener Rallies, Wins 10-9 in 13 innings in ISC Winner’s Bracket Final

Saturday, August 16th, 2008

Kitchener Rallies from Down 8-3 to Advance to Title Game

The Kitchener Rivershark Twins of Kitchener, Ontario, Canada rallied to tie the game in regulation, then again in extra innings, and finally, winning it in the bottom of the 13th inning, 10-9 to advance to the ISC World Tournament championship game. Ryan Wolfe singled home the game winner with the bases loaded in the 13th, in the 3 hour, 45 minute marathon. Aspen led in the game at one point, 8-3, in the top of the 4th inning, but could not hold the lead.

Steve Mullaley hit a big three run homer for Kitchener, to pull them them to 8-7 and turn it into a ballgame in the 5th, then doubled and scored the tying run in the bottom of the 7th. After Aspen’s Dale Levy homered to give Saskatoon the lead, Jody Eidt hit a homer in the bottom of the ninth to tie the game again, with Wolfe driving home the game winner in the 13th. It appears that Kitchener has suffered a huge loss in the game, however, as Mullaley was injured sliding into first in the 11th, and was seen after the game with a sling on his arm.

Todd Martin picked up the win in relief — coming back into the game in the 11th after giving way in the 3rd. Aspen starter Trevor Ethier suffered the loss, re-entering the game as well.

Pitchers for Kitchener were Martin, Scott, Cox, and Martin. Pitchers for Aspen were Ethier, Holoien, Smith and Ethier.

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Rockers lose game 2, win game 3 at NAFA AA-Major World Series

Saturday, August 16th, 2008


The River City Rockers Men’s Fastpitch Team lost to the defending champions, New Image of Monfort, Wisconsin, 4-0 in the AA-Major division of the 2008 NAFA World Series being held in North Mankato, Minnesota at Caswell Park. The Rockers managed only 5 hits off their starter, Jeremy Holman. The Rockers were paced by Kary Moore who was 2-3, Rob Penticoff, Dave Bostick and Greg Rogers. Bryan Newton gave up 2 earned runs and was tagged with the loss. The loss sent the Rockers to the losers bracket.

The Rockers 3rd game saw the Rockers bounce back Saturday morning against a young Canadian team, the Pickseed Explorers of Balcarres, Saskatchewan for a 5-1 victory. Dave Drotzmann started and was relieved by Ed Gaspar who picked up the win. The Rockers received home runs from Mario Pereiro and Rusty Newnan added a 3-run shot. Rob Penticoff had a hit and base on balls and Dave Bostick also had a single.

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Canadian Teams to Meet in Winner’s Bracket Final

Saturday, August 16th, 2008

As the ISC World Tournament heads into its final day and towards the Championship Game at 6pm this evening, one thing is for sure — there will be a Canadian team in the finals. The Kitchener Riversharks from Ontario, Canada will be taking on Aspen Interiors from Sasakatoon, Canada. Kitchener finished as high as third in the premier event of men’s fastball, back in 2002, and was the host in 2006 and 2007, but it has been the better part of a decade since a Canadian team reached the finals.

The two teams square off today at 12 noon today, with the winner advancing to the 6pm championship game, while the loser will play at 4pm, awaiting the winner of the loser’s semi-final between Patsy’s of New York and last year’s champion, The Farm Tavern, who will meet at 2pm. All games today on the main, lower diamond at Sunset Park, at Kimberly, Wisconsin, a picturesque diamond over looking the nearby Fox River. The crowd was estimated at 5000 people yesterday for home Farm Tavern’s game against Kitchener and figures to be a packed house today for the Grand Final.

The rosters for the two Canadian teams meeting in today’s winner’s bracket final are comprised of a who’s who in Canadian fastball, and a majority of the roster that Team Canada is likely to send to the once-every-four-years ISF World Championship competition. (See rosters below, pitchers shown in bold)

Kitchener ON Kitchener Rivershark Twins

1 Scott, Don 0 Pitcher Sebringville, ON
2 Shannon, Patrick 1 C Auckland, NZ
3 Fehrman, Ian 5 SS/2B Jarvis, ON
4 Bailey, Dave 7 DP/C Tavistock, ON
5 Sanford, Jason 8 C Nova Scotia
6 Loney, Dan 9 OF Cornwall, ON
7 Lynch, Matt 11 UT Aylmer, ON
8 Miller, Blake 13 SS/2B Kingsville, TX
9 Ellsworth, Jeff 19 OF Alberton, PEI
10 Ezekiel, Blair 21 1B/P St JOHNS, NFLD
11 Eidt, Jody 22 3B Absecon, NJ
12 Boyd, Evan 26 IF/OF Stouffville, ON
13 Martin, Todd 29 Pitcher Aurora, ON
14 Cox, Frank 30 Pitcher Owen Sound, ON
15 Mullaley, Steve 33 OF St JOHNS, NFLD
16 Wolfe, Ryan 77 OF Glencoe,ON
17 Shackleton, Derek 88 1B/3B St. Mary’s, ON
Bruckert, Denny 3 MGR
Lynch, Larry 6 Coach
Nydick, Bob 20 Coach

Saskatoon SK Aspen Interiors

1 Levy, Dale 2 OF St.Marys,ONT
2 Evely, Geoff 8 SS St.Johns, NL
3 Lawton, Mike 9 OF Saskatoon, SK
4 Joy, Darryl 10 2nd Calgary, AB
5 Hitchings, Jason 12 OF Saskatoon, SK
6 Ethier, Trevor 17 P Saskatoon, SK
7 Hanson, Chad 19 1B Saskatoon, SK
8 Smith, Rick 20 P Victoria, BC
9 Obrien, Sean 22 C Kitchener,ONT
10 Crawford, Greg 24 OF Saskatoon, SK
11 Mackintosh, Pat 38 OF Saskatoon, SK
12 Kostel, Ryan 41 C Fairview Heights,IL
13 Mackintosh, Keith 51 3B Melfort, SK
14 Bibby, Brad 54 OF Prince Albert, SK
15 Holoien, Dean 72 P Moose Jaw, SK
16 Head, Ron IF Camrose,Alberta
Jason Kurylyk MGR
Mike Guras Coach
Chris Wright Coach

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Bombers Over Bow at ISC, to Play Again at 7pm Central Time

Friday, August 15th, 2008

Dave Kimura Delivers Game Winning Hit

The A-1 Casa Trejo So Cal Bombers won again at the ISC World Tournament in Kimberly, Wisconsin, in one of the best games of the tournament, against the highly ranked Broken Bow Gremlins of Nebraska. The game featured a number of the games top pitchers, including starters Marty Grant for the Bombers and Andrew Kirkpatrick for Broken Bow. The game see-sawed, with Bow leading first, the Bombers taking a lead, Bow coming back to tie it in the late innings.

Dave Kimura delivered the game winner in the top of the 8th inning, a high hopper over the head of Broken Bow third baseman Todd Budke, scoring two to give the Bombers the lead. Bombers skipper Kelly McGiffin pressed all the right buttons, inserting Darryl Sandback as a pitch hitter for Kimura earlier inn the game, with Sandback driving in a run. Kimura was re-entered into the game and came through in the clutch with the biggest hit of the game, for the win.

Bow battled back for a run in the bottom of the eighth inning, and had the tying and go ahead runs aboard, but could not cash them in against Bomber’s reliever, Lucas Mata. For Broken Bow, Denmark import Freddy Terkelsen had a home run and a double off off Grant, while veteran Jarrad Martin had two hits and drove in two of Broken Bow’s four runs.

Click here for the box score and play-by-play.

The Bombers are now among the final seven teams, with four unbeaten teams:

Aspen
The Farm Tavern
Kitcheners and
Patsy’s

along with three teams with one loss:

So Cal Bombers
Jarvis of Ontario, Canada and
Horse Lake Thunder of Alberta Canada

The Bombers will face the losers of the Kitcheners/Patsy’s game at 7pm central time tonight (Friday), 5pm California time, while the winner of Jarvis/Horse Lake Thunder will take on the loser of The Farm/Patsy’s. Patsy’s is the team that dropped the Bombers into the loser’s bracket, with a 13-2 rout that including 7 home runs for Patsy’s.

The ISC World Tournament concludes tomorrow, Saturday, August 16, 2008 with the championship game at 6pm central, 4pm California time.

Click here for the complete scoreboard and schedule of remaining games.

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California Dreamin’

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

ISC II Commissioner Blair Setford’s Recap from the final day of the 2008 ISC II Tournament of Champions:


Day 4 – California Dreamin’
August 14th, 2008

California Taylor Farms LumberKings rallied for a come-from-behind 2-1 win over Waterdown Hammer to become the first top-ranked team to win the ISC II Tournament of Champions.

The LumberKings victory capped a day spectacular fastball with all but one of the seven games played at Memorial Park in Appleton decided by only one or two runs.

In the final, winning pitcher Dave Drotzmann and the Hammer’s Wayne Wells each worked three scoreless innings before the Hammer got on the board in the bottom of the fourth with Matt DaSilva coming in to score.

The LumberKings replied with two runs of their own. Pat Fuentes scored the tying run on a wild pitch and then Brian Teeters scored on an infield ground out to put California in the lead for good. Drotzmann worked 1-2-3 innings in the sixth & seventh to get the complete game victory.

California started the day with a nervy 3-1 win over Ottawa Team Easton Thunder. ISC II MVP Marcus Tan lead off the game with an inside the park home rund to give the LumberKings a lead they would never relinquish. Jeff Twist reached base after a strike out passed ball, and came around to score the second run. Ottawa trimmed the lead to 2-1 on an unearned run, though the LumberKings added a key insurance run in the 6th on a Marcus Tan sacrifice fly. Centerfielder Brian Teeters made a game saving catch in the bottom of the 6th on a long gap shot with two men aboard to preserve the win.

In the semi finals, it was Teeters to the rescue again, with a two-run home run in the bottom of the sixth inning to provide themargin of victory as the Lumberkings edged the previously unbeaten New York Knights 2-1. Mike Egerdeen turned in his finest performance of the 2008 ISC II tournament, an 11 strikeout, 3-hitter, going the distance for the win. Egerdeen had only one mistake in the game, surrendering a fourth inning solo home run to straight-a-way center to first baseman Dave Lohman. Until the Teeters home run, it appeared that the performance might go for naught, but the Lumberkings showed remarkable resiliency, with three wins coming in their final at bat.

For Waterdown, they started the day facing hard-throwing righty Kevin Kammueller of St. Paul, MN ASB Villard. Wells lasted only four innings before giving way to Tim Neill. With the game tied at 2, the Hammer broke the game open in the top of the seventh with three runs, two of them coming on a key Dave Brownhill triple.

Neill would go the distance for Waterdown in their 2-1 semi-final win over Kitchener Outlaws. Waterdown got on the board early as Tim Coe followed a John Kemp triple with an RBI single. In the second, back to back triples by Brownhill and Kemp counted the second run for the Hammer. Neill was masterful, not allowing an Outlaws runner past first base until a Tim Dubois home run in the 5th.

Earlier in the day, New York ended the run by Bryan Newton and the River City Rockers with a 6-2 victory while Ashland Stock Pack were eliminated by Kitchener.

Marcus Tan was named the ISC II MVP. Also the RBI leader with 11, Tan played stellar defence at second for the LumberKings and provided both power and average from his lead-off spot in the order.

John Kemp was the leading hitter, batting .562 prior to the final.

Dave Drotzmann was the Most Outstanding Pitcher, finishing with a 5-0 record.

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