The West Coast will be sending three teams to the ISC World Tournament this year, # 4 ranked So Cal Bombers, # 10 ranked Vancouver Grey Sox and the # 12 ranked Portland De Marini. Here is a look at their rosters for the tournament.

Casa Trejo So Cal Bombers
Palm Springs CA

1 Pinocchio, Steve 5 IF Merced, CA
2 Mendibles, Albert 6 IF Prescott Valley, AZ
3 Butler, Mike 7 IF Sonora, CA
4 Porto, Jason 8 OF Elk Grove, CA
5 Crawford, Greg 9 OF Calgary, AB
6 Ghostkeeper, Chad 10 C-OF Prince George, BC
7 Lalonde, Adam 11 OF Mt. Pleasant, MI
8 Potskin, Evan 15 OF Prince George, BC
9 Parra, Raymundo 16 UT Ensenada, Baja, Mexico
10 Evely, Geoff 20 IF St.John’s, Nfld
11 Devine, Nate 22 OF Merced, CA
12 Box, Darren 23 C-OF Edmonton, AB
13 Rodriguez, Landy 24 IF-C West Haverstraw, NY
14 Whitten, Sean 27 P Calgary, AB
15 Tilley, Darrell 34 P Edmonton, AB
16 Mata, Lucas 42 P Ensenada, Baja, Mexico
17 Santillano. Marc 45 INF Stockton, CA
18 Peeples, Tony 99 P San Miguel, CA
McGiffin, Kelly 21 Mgr
Shick, Rob 19 Coach
Chase, Doug 2 Coach

Vancouver Grey Sox
Vancouver BC

1 Trevor Johnstone 2 IF Vancouver, BC
2 Doug Cain 6 IF Victoria, BC
3 Scott Newitt 7 OF Delta, BC
4 Derek Mayson 9 IF-P North Vancouver, BC
5 Eric Reisinger 12 IF Chilliwack, BC
6 Calem Gardner 17 OF Squamish, BC
7 Rick Smith 21 P Duncan, BC
8 Nick Underhill 24 P Surrey, BC
9 Sean Cameron 27 OF North Vancouver, BC
10 Rob Geisbrecht 30 OF Landmark, MB
11 Craig Halliday 32 C Squamish, BC
12 Kevin Smillie 33 IF Squamish, BC
13 Bryan Abrey 34 OF Richmond, BC
14 Brian Banner 38 C Sooke, BC
15 Doug Allin 43 OF Summerland, BC

John Stuart 11 Mgr
Todd Morrison 44 Coach
Doug Van Os 4 Coach

Portland OR
Portland DeMarini
Portland OR

1 Paul Reyes 2 IF Sacramento, CA
2 Bricklen Anderson 3 P Victoria, BC
3 Terry Traverso 4 IF Seattle, WA
4 Jeff Reich 6 OF Stockton, CA
5 Rod Rainey 9 IF Whittier, CA
6 Brian Ree 10 IF Portland, OR
7 Randy Potskin 11 IF Prince George, BC
8 Mike Piechnik 13 P Victoria, BC
9 Todd Garcia 18 C Stockton, CA
10 Jesse Duncan 20 OF Long Beach, CA
11 Rick Rosychuck 21 IF LacLaBiche, AB
12 Ryan Daly 24 UT Seattle, WA
13 Kris Waverick 25 OF North Delta BC
14 Dean Waltier 27 IF Seattle, WA
15 Michael White 30 P Eugene, OR
16 Kevin Rasmussen 35 UT Everett, WA
17 Rob Gehrke 42 UT Portland, OR
18 Craig Pidcock 51 P Surrey, BC
Terry M. Smith 44 Mgr
Len Potskin 77 Coach
Eddie Wilson 7 Coach

Thanks to Cesar Rodriguez, Bombers’ coach and webmaster for this report on the team’s weekend in Vancouver:

2007 VANCOUVER CHALLENGE – Comments:

This past weekend certainly was a good tune up for the World Tournament and obviously we’re pleased with our performance in winning the event, especially in defeating some very good clubs including the #1 ranked Broken Bow Gremlins in the final. Our team hasn’t been together for three weeks and the weekend was important in terms of getting back to work and to the process of our season’s plan.

I thought all areas of the team were pretty strong given our layoff and we know that they will have to be in order to have similar success in a few weeks. Our pitching effort was good with all three pitchers showing some great signs of being ready for the challenge of the WT. Our hitting came along throughout the weekend and our at bats improved game after game. We played our usual aggressive style and took advantage of opportunities whenever they presented themselves.

Lucas Mata won the top pitcher award and Darren Box was MVP but any number of players could be pointed out for great performances not the least of which included Steve Pinocchio, Adam Lalonde, Jason Porto and Evan Potskin.

The other news of the weekend was that we made a major signing in adding Doug Chase to our coaching staff. With our third coach, Cesar Rodriguez unable to attend the WT, we felt we needed another set of eyes going into the World’s. If we’re going to do this job effectively, we want all the different areas covered.

Doug (former All-World catcher with Victoria and the Farm) will be with us through the WT and will focus on pitching and catching with an eye to scouting opposing hitters for us. His experience and insights will balance well with Coach Shick and myself. Doug has history with both of us, having played with Rob early in his softball career, and he and I coached together on the Canadian National team.

The Bombers would like to thank the Vancouver Grey Sox for their hospitality and for a very well run and enjoyable tournament. Now it’s a weekend off and then out to Kitchener to start the World Tournament. We have had some great success in our recent tournaments but as our own Lucas Mata says, “we have to take it slowly”. At the World’s, all the teams will be better than they are right now, and the Bombers will not be taken lightly, so we have to be equally ready to stay focused on every pitch, every inning.

C-Rod – So Cal Bombers