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50+ CHAMPIONSHIP
Seattle 15
Texas Stars 11
MVPitcher – Dan Kolda
MVP – Mike Drew
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watch for more complete recap of all Sunday’s games soon
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Quarterfinal games just underway at 9:45
Semis at 11:30am
Championship at 3:00 pm
FINAL FOUR
Long Beach Deadwood
Other 3 spots TBD
All game times PST.
River City Rockers Unbeaten, Earn First Round Bye
POOL A
CR Adidas, OR 7, Fat City, CA 1
River City Rockers over Dresslerville AC, Nevada (score not posted yet)
River City Rockers, CA 15, CR Adidas 2,
Fat City, CA 7, Dresslerville, NV 6
The River City Rockers CA vs. CR/Adidas, OR game was one of the tournament’s marquee games, pitting Tony Peeples pitching for River City and Terry Luster for CR/Adidas, drawing one of the better crowds of the tournament.
POOL B
EZ Promotions 15, Oroville Braves 0
Rainey-Mavericks 12, Oroville Braves 0
EZ Promotions 4, Rainey Mavericks 3
Seeding for Sunday’s Single Elim Bracket
A1 – River City Rockers, CA
A2 – CR/Adidas, OR
A3 – Fat City, CA
A4 – Dresslerville, NV
Seeding for Pool B:
B1 – EZ Promotions
B2 – Rainey/Mavericks
B2 – Oroville Braves
Sunday’s Bracket Play”
8am – B1 EZ Promotions vs. A4 Dresslerville
8am – A2- CR/Adidas vs. Oroville
8am – A3 – Fat City, CA vs. B2 Rainey/Mavericks
A1 – River City Rockers, CA – Bye
11:30am – Semi-Finals
Winner B1 EZ Promotions vs. A4 Dresslerville vs. Winner A2- CR/Adidas vs. Oroville
Winner A3 – Fat City, CA – B2 Rainey/Mavericks vs. River City Rockers, CA
3pm – Championship Game
Utah Fastpitch, A-1Tank/America West Unbeaten, Earn Byes
POOL A
A-1 Tank/America West, CA 8, Sea-Yak 1
NAFA Yard Dogs 11, Sea Yak 0
A-1 Tank/America West 14, NAFA Yard Dogs 0
POOL B
Utah Fastpitch 4, Tule Lake Aces 0
Tule Lake Aces 7, Fat City 0
Utah Fastpitch 10, Fat City 0
Seeding for Sunday:
A1- A-1 Tank/America West (2-0)
A2 – NAFA Yard Dogs (1-1)
A3 – Sea-Yak (0-2)
B1 – Utah Fastpitch (2-0)
B2 – Tule Lake Aces (1-1)
B3 – Fat City (0-2)
Sunday’s Single Elimination Bracket Schedule
A2 NAFA Yard Dogs vs. B3 -Fat City 0
B2 Tule Lake Aces vs. A3 Sea Yak
Byes to B1 Utah and A1 A-1 Tank/America West
11:30AM Semi-finals
B1 Utah Fastpitch vs. winner NAFA Yard Dog-Fat City
A1 – A-1 Tank/America West vs. winner Tule Lake Aces-Sea Yak
Tulsa Grey Sox, Calgary Qmax Solutions Unbeaten, Earn Byes to semis
POOL A
Ladner Masters 15, KHT Pumpers 6
Tulsa Grey Sox 9, KHT Pumpers 7
Tulsa Grey Sox 8, Ladner Masters 4
POOL B
Calgary Qmax Solutions 16, Bay Area Merchants 1
Oregon Masters 7, Bay Area Merchants 0
Calgary Qmax Solutions 10, Oregon Masters 7
Seeding for Sunday:
A1 – Tulsa Grey Sox, OK
A2 – Ladner Masters, BC, Canada
A3 – KHT Pumpers, CA
B1 – Calgary Qmax Solutions, Alberta, Canada
B2 – Oregon Masters, OR
B3 – Bay Area Merchants
Sunday Single Elimination Bracket Schedule:
A2 Ladner, 7-0 forfeit over B3 Bay Area Merchants
A3 KHT vs. B2 Oregon Masters
11:30 semi-finals
B1 Calgary Qmax Solutions vs. A2 Ladner
Winner A3 KHT Pumpers-B2 Oregon Masters vs. A1 Tulsa Grey Sox
3pm – Championship game
We’ve updated our earlier post with the above team photo, taken at Rockford, IL by Shawn Dunford. Thanks to Kevin Kammueller for providing the pic.
Front Row(left to right): Bill Hafner, Jim Dardine, Shawn Dunford, Dave Wolf, Rick Lathrop, Mike Jordan; Back Row(left to right): Dick Klitzky, Mike Applegate, Pat Rieger, Kevin Kammueller, Paul Arntzen, Gerry Gubash (click photo to enlarge)
More details on the NAFA 40+ Masters EAST champions, Jordan Realty of St. Paul, Minnesota:
Jordan Realty MN shortstop Mike Applegate was named the MVP, while Kevin Kammueller earned Outstanding pitching honors, tossing all five games for the champions, including the two 1-0 wins over runnerup Planggers of Benton Harbor Michigan. Jim Dardine and Paul Arntzen were also selected to the all world team. (Jim was also selected to the 40+ All American team in Portland last year)
Championship Roster:
1. Kevin Kammueller
2. Mike Jordan
3. Dave Wolf
4. Jim Dardine
5. Pat Rieger
6. Rick Lathrop
7. Mike Applegate
8. Gerry Gubash
9. Dick Klitzke
10. Bill Hafner
11. Sean Dunford
12. Paul Arntzen
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Full schedules and brackets for the 2007 NAFA Masters WEST
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40-and-over
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45-and-over
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50-and-over
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“Go West, young man, go west!” wrote Indiana newspaper writer John Soule’s back in 1851. Well, the men in the masters division may not be young, but west they will be headed.
On the heels of the completion of the NAFA Masters EAST in Rockford Illinois last weekend, NAFA will hold their western regional Masters tournament in Carson City, Nevada this weekend, September 15 and 16, 2007. Carson City is located about a half hour south of Reno, (aka “The Biggest Little City in the World”) Carson City was founded in the boom days of mining. A center of silver mining, Carson City is the capital of Nevada and was named for explorer Kit Carson.
Watch here for the brackets, due out any day now.
From the NAFA Masters Website brackets:
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35+
RK Broward Pirates, Royalton, Illinois, 6-4 over RD-SF, Juda, Wisconsin
BK Broward Pirates (Royalton, Illinois)
Blackhawk Athletic Club (Rockford, Illinois)
Central Illinois Budweiser (Virginia, Illinois)
NAFA Free Agents (Salem, Oregon)
RD-SF (Juda, Wisconsin)
Tory Strothers & Company (Appleton, Illinois)
40+
Jordan Realty, St. Paul, Minnesota 1-0 over Planggers, Benton Harbor, Michigan
Central Illinois Budweiser (Virginia, Illinois)
Cobourg Force (Cobourg, Ontario)
DC Current/Goshen Gators (Bremen, Indiana)
Weiner’s Bar/Feature’s Bar (Holmen, Wisconsin)
Jordan Realty (St. Paul, Minnesota)
Team Chicago (Chicago, Ill)
Plangger’s Furniture (Benton Harbor, Michigan)
Ramsey Financial (Bowen, Illinois)
Sprayers (Des Moines, Iowa)
45+
Harold’s Supermarkets, Lexington, Missouri 5-0 over Nietzerts, Kalamazoo, Michigan
AF Gushow (Auburn, Michigan)
Bay Area Merchants (Hayward, California)
Elkhart (Elkhart, Iowa)
Fort Wayne/Anderson (Anderson, Indiana)
Harold’s Supermarkets (Lexington, Missouri)
Holland Plumbing (Galena, Illinois)
Master Key (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
Neitzert’s/Roberts Steel (Kalamazoo, Michigan)
The Insurance Center (Onalaska, Wisconsin)
DSM Metros – Des Moines, Iowa
Savala Painters – Stockton, Cal
The Stock – Woodstock, Ill
Planggers – Benton Harbor, Mich
50+
Fastpitch Chronicle/Ohio Battery, Ashland, Ohio 9-8 over USA (United Sports Academy), Stockton, California
Blackhawk Athletic Club (Rockford, Illinois)
Bowar Electric (Middleton, Wisconsin)
Buck’s Bombers (Thomson, Illinois)
Cardinal Home Improvement (St. Cloud, Minnesota)
Nohren Farms (Champaign, Illinois)
Ohio Battery/Fastpitch Chronicle (Ashland, Ohio)
Symba’s (Green Bay, Wisconsin)
United Sports Academy (Stockton, California)
Sidenote: The ASA 40+ and 45+ Masters tournaments for 2007 were cancelled due to lack of interest.
(click logo to go to official NAFA Masters website)
Fastpitch Chronicle/Ohio Battery wins NAFA 50+ Masters World Series
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Rockford, IL – It wasn’t the normal way to win national title but the Fastpitch Chronicle/Ohio Battery men’s’ 50+ Masters team did it anyway with an interesting win over United Sports Academy of California in the NAFA 50+ World Series.
The win avenged a round robin loss on Saturday night to the California contingent.
The Fastpitch Chronicle/Ohio Battery club opened the NAFA 50+ Masters with a hard-fought 4-2 win over Bowar Electric of Middleton, Wisconsin. Victor Flores started in the circle for the champions but suffered a calf muscle injury early on and as replaced by Lonnie Brooks. Brooks pitched well and got out of several tight spots en route to the win. Neil Jones took the loss but pitched well in holding off the big bats of the eventual champions.
They had a game off and then took on the California crew in that second round robin game that turned into a high-scoring affair early when USA jumped on them for a quick four runs in the first inning. The two teams battled back and forth for the #1 seed with USA claiming the win, 8-5. Russ Snow was the winning pitcher while Brooks took the loss.
On Sunday the Fastpitch Chronicle/Ohio Battery club took on Symba’s (Duck Creek Masters from the Green Bay, Wisconsin area in) another slugfest. Rick Ferry opened in the circle for Duck Creek while Lonnie Brooks got the ball for the eventual champions. The game was tight most of the way but Jeff Gaugler nailed a three-run homer in a pinch hitting role to open up a wider margin and The Chronicle Battery men went on to a 14-9 win.
The next opponent up was Cardinal Home Improvement of St. Cloud, Minnesota. Steve McFadden started in the circle for The Fastpitch Chronicle/Ohio Battery club and got relief help from Brooks who eventually got the win as the men in blue came back with an 8-4 win. They were trailing 3-0 as they headed into the sixth inning.
The championship game was played on two different fields, twenty minutes apart as the lights went out at Sportscore 1 right after the 6th inning had been played. The Fastpitch Chronicle/Ohio Battery club was ahead 9-8 as both teams were knocking the ball around pretty well. The teams packed up their stuff, moved to another complex 20 minutes away and waited for the slowpitch distances to be switched to fastpitch ones. They had to prepare the diamond, move the pitcher’s plate, move the bases in where they needed to be, chalk the field and then play ball.
The Fastpitch Chronicle/Ohio Battery went down without scoring in the top of the seventh and Brooks faced Unites Sports Academy in the bottom of the 7th. Brooks fanned the leadoff batter before the next USA batter reached first. When USA attempted to move the runner into scoring position the bunt was popped up and the runner at one was retired to set off a Fastpitch Chronicle celebration.
Shortstop Steve Betts (Indianapolis, IN) was named the Most Valuable player of the tournament and was joined on the All World Team by Lonnie Brooks, Jeff Gaugler and centerfielder Tim Kauffman.
Russ Snow of United Sports Academy was named the tournament Outstanding Pitcher.
For detailed results of the entire tournament and results from the 35+, the 40+ and the 45+ NAFA Masters tournament go to http://www.masters.nafafastpitch.com/east/50/bracket_results.htm and see them there.
Tomlinson and the legendary Nick McCurry of Ohio Battery sponsored the club on the weekend and look forward to going back to Rockford in 2008 to defend their title.
“for Nick and me, it was a pleasure getting these guys together,†said Fastpitch Chronicle publisher Bob Tomlinson. “Nick was much more nervous than was I so winning it was pretty special for him. We’re happy for all of them.â€
“It was a fun weekend in Rockford,†said Tomlinson. “Getting to see so many of the people that subscribed to The Fastpitch Chronicle over the years was great. I had some great conversations in Rockford. I’ve said all along, since 2004, that I wasn’t going to disappear from the men’s’ fastpitch scene.â€
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Editor’s note: Bob Tomlinson was inducted into the ISC Hall of Fame last month, in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, in the “Service to the Game” category. We congratulate Bob on a well deserved honour. Bob’s work was a large part of the inspiration for the start of Fastpitchwest.
2007 NAFA Masters – Start Times Carson City Sept. 15-16 – WESTERN Zone
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Below are the official start times for the 2007 NAFA Masters West Men’s Fastpitch World Series in Carson City, Nevada at the Centennial Sports Complex to be held September 15(Saturday)-16(Sun). They have been posted on our website at www.Nafafastpitch.com and on Al Doran’s site and on Jim Flanagan’s www.fastpitchwest.com.