Championship Bracket games underway at 10:30 am this morning, but here are the scores from the Consolation Bracket 8:30am games:

Consolation Round – Sunday, June 24, 2007
(bottom 3 teams in each pool – A5 & B5 get bye)

08:30am

B7 – Mock Ford, OR – 10
A6 – Team Yakima, WA – 9
11 innings
WP-Spud Barker
LP-Robinson

08:30am B6 vs. A7 Budweiser Field
Cleons Auto, WA v. AA Riteway

B6 Cleon’s Auto – 10
A7 – AA Riteway – 2
pitching – n/a (yet)

Games Underway Now:

Single Elimination Championship Bracket, Sunday, June 24, 2007

10:30am A1 vs. B4 GI Joes Field
Portland DeMarini v. A-1/Taylor Farms
*Just underway due to 8:30am game on that diamond going 11 innings *

10:30am B2 vs. A3 White Field
Vancouver Grey Sox, BC v. Romie’s Angels, CA
**5th inning update: Vancouver up 8-0 **

10:30am B1 vs. A4 Budweiser Field
Broken Bow NY vs. Larry Miller Hogs, UT
* 5th inn update: Bow up 4-0 *

10:30am A2 vs. B3 M&W Field
So Cal Bombers, CA vs. Cal Lumberkings, CA
*5th inning update: Bombers up 4-0*

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If I am reading this right, looks like USA beat Venezuela, 5-2 today and then lost to Japan, 2-0 in the final. If so, that means Japan won both the World Baseball Classic and the Men’s World Cup Fastpitch tournaments this year.

Unofficial results:

Gold – Japan
Silver – USA
Bronze – Venezuela

We’ll update here as soon as we get official word out of Prague.

From

Prague, Czech Republic – June 21, 2007

Decos EHS upsets Denmark 10-7

In a very spectacular game which took more then 3 hours, the
Decos EHS team beats their European rivals from Denmark. A very
intense game where Decos EHS was always in command. Kiwi Michael
Cameron was 3-3 with a double and 2 RBI’s. Rody Stam went 2-4
with a triple and 3 RBI’s. Gillis and Welsh shared the pitching
duties and did a great job holding the Danish National Team to
only 8 hits.

Other scores on the official website via www.demo-ehs.nl

Boxscore:

Denmark 0-0-1-1-3-0-2 = 7-8-2
Decos EHS 3-0-1-0-2-3-1 = 10-9-1

Pitching:
Denmark: Martin Holmberg (LP) 7-5-6 (5inn)
Jesper Panduro 2-0-1 (1inn)
Decos EHS: Doug Gillis (WP) 3-4-2 (4.3 inn)
Jared Welsh 4-2-5 (2.7 inn)

Norman Ames
Decos EHS Fastpitch, Haarlem, The Netherlands

E-mail: norman.ames@gielissen.nl
Homepage: www.demo-ehs.nl

From

ISF WORLD CUP – DAY 6

When USA lost to Venezuela in Friday late night game 5:6 and Japan beat Venezuela on Saturday morning 7:5, first three team were tied. Runs against rule ranked US team first, Japan second and Venezuela third for semifinals.

First semifinal went easy for Venezuela against Dutch selection Demo EHS. In the bottom of third Accacio hit the triple followed by two home runs and Doug Gillis was replaced by Michael Cameron, however he cannot stop Venezuela from hitting another home run and finished the game in øth inning 8:0.

Evening game USA – Japan begun quietly with no runs in first two innings. But in the top of third japan came with their great offensiveweapon – infield hits and slaps combined with speed and scored 7 runs against Travis Price. He was than replaced by Sonny Perkins but Japan continued in their exhibition until score was 12:2 in the fith inning. Japanese pitchers Murasato and Namagutchi allowed 4 hits (one homerun by Chris Miljavac in the bottom of fifth

Sundays Finals:
14,00 USA – Venzuela
17,30 Japan – winner of previous game

For more info incl. play-by play and photos see official tournament website:
http://worldcup07.czechsoftball.com/

Pavel Prachar
Technical Commission

Blake Miller 3-for-3, Win for Travis Price

From USA Softball

USA Registers 9-2 Win in Opening Game of ISF World Cup

PRAGUE — The USA Men’s National Team registered a 9-2 run rule win over DeMo EHS of the Netherlands today in its opening game in the ISF World Cup in Prague, Czech Republic. The U.S. out-hit their opponents 11-4 while taking advantage of three DeMo EHS errors to start off play 1-0.

The game was called at the end of six innings (seven after five) because of the ISF run rule after the USA had scored a pair of runs in the bottom of the sixth inning against DeMo relief hurler Jared Welsh. Welsh entered in the fourth after the USA hit DeMo starter Doug Gillis to take a 6-2 advantage. Welsh allowed three runs and three hits in three innings.

The 42-year-old Gillis, a former member of the USA Men’s National Team, hurled the first three innings, allowing six runs on eight hits. One of the hits was a 280-foot two-run homer in the third inning by USA catcher Frank DeGroat (Ringwood, N.J.) over the left field fence,

“We had a good effort today,” USA Head Coach Peter Turner (Stockton, Calif.) said. “Travis (Price) gave us a solid performance and we’ve got the kind of team that creates a lot of havoc against the opposition with our speed and hitting ability.”

Price, one of the veterans on the team, went six innings and fanned eight, allowing a pair of runs on four hits. The two runs came in the top of the second when DeMo EHS took an early 2-1 record on an RBI double to the fence by Jeffery Visser and a throwing error by Price.

The USA seized the lead for good with three runs in the second inning before DeGroat increased the margin with the USA’s first home of the World Cup.

Leading the USA offense was Blake Miller (Albany, Ga.) who scored a pair of runs and went three-for-three including a triple in the fifth inning. Mo Kandouse (Patterson, N.J.) also had an RBI triple in the sixth inning and scored on a passed ball to conclude the scoring for the USA, which has a pair of games on Tuesday. Chris Miljavac (St. Joseph, Mo.,) also had a pair of singles for the USA for an RBI and a run scored.

Team USA plays tomorrow at 12:30 p.m. (5:30 am CST) against the Denmark National Team (1-0) and at 8:00 p.m. (2:00 pm CST) against the Japanese National Team.

For further information contact Bill Plummer, USA Softball at 202 352 2649.

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