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2007 NAFA World Series – Week 1 Recap

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007

First Weekend of Play at the 2007 NAFA World Series

[West Des Moines and Des Moines, Iowa] –

The first weekend of play at the 2007 NAFA World Series concluded Monday afternoon as the third of three Champions was crowned, with the Scarlett’s Sox(Sioux Falls, SD) defeating Priority Mortgage (Grand Rapids, Mich). On Sunday New Image (Monfort, Wisc) defeated the Black Knights (Fargo,ND) to win the inaugural Class AA-Major title while earlier in the day Rude-Pac(Sun Valley, Cal) outlasted Odin Fastpitch (Odin, Minn) in the Class A-Major.

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Rude-Pac Wins NAFA Class A-Major World Championship

Tuesday, August 21st, 2007

[Des Moines, Iowa] – The 2007 NAFA A-Major World Champion was crowned at the Des
Moines Softball Park in Des Moines, Iowa Sunday afternoon as Rude-Pac (Sun Valley, Cal) defeated Odin Fastpitch (Odin, Minn) 3-2.

Rude-Pac went undefeated on the weekend, posting a 6-0 record.

Odin was dropped to the Loser’s Bracket by Rude-Pac Saturday and won three games Sunday to set-up a rematch with Rude-Pac.

Odin moved into the Championship Game with a 1-0 victory of the Blues Sofball Club (Hastings, Mich). Odin’s Dusty Pfeiffer hit an RBI double in the top of seventh for the games lone run.

The Blues threatened in the bottom of the seventh, getting their leadoff runner on before popping up a bunt. The next batter singled but Odin ended the game with a strikeout.

Rude-Pac’s Greg Baker was named the tournament Most Valuable Player with Odin’s Justin Davis walking away with Most Valuable Pitcher honors.

Rude-Pac becomes the first California team since 2004 when the Yucaipa Bombers (Yucaipa, Cal) won the Class AAA title in Hutchinson, Kansas.

A complete listing of the All World Teams will be on the NAFA
World Series website at http://www.2007ws.nafafastpitch.com by
Monday afternoon.

Brett Bresnahan
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New Image Wins 2007 NAFA AA-Major World Title

Tuesday, August 21st, 2007

[West Des Moines, Iowa] – New Image (Monfort, Wisc) defeated the Black Knights (Fargo,
ND) 8-5 Sunday evening at Racoon River Park in West Des Moines to win the inaugural NAFA Class AA-Major crown.

With the win, New Image becomes the first team in NAFA history to win World Titles in back-to-back years after claiming the AA World Title last year in Appleton, Wisconsin.

New Image bumped the Black Knights into the Loser’s Bracket Saturday afternoon, forcing Kegel to play five games just to get into the Championship Game.

A win by the Black Knights would have made them the first three-time NAFA World Champions after winning the 2000 Class A Title (Fargo, ND) and the 2003 Open Title (Eau Claire, Wisc).

In the Championship Game, New Image jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the first inning on RBIs by Jim Peccararo and Kris Agnew. The Black Knights countered with a run in the bottom of the
first then tied the game in the second by scoring on a passed ball and a Nathan Wiens RBI single.

The Black Knights grabbed the lead by scoring an unearned run. New Image tied the game again the next inning on a Todd Burlage RBI double.

In the sixth, New Image scored three runs on a sacrifice fly by Brent Holman and singled by Harvey Knutson and Jim Peccararo.

The Black Knights cut into the lead in the bottom half with a run, which New Image countered in the top of the seventh. The Black Knights’ Nathan Weins was named the Most Valuable
Player while Jeramie Holman of New Image was awarded the Most Valuable Pitcher award.

The full list of All World Players will be on the NAFA World Series website (http://www.2007ws.nafafastpitch.com) Monday afternoon.

Brett Bresnahan
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http://www.2007ws.nafafastpitch.com
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Rockers Finish 3rd in NAFA AA

Tuesday, August 21st, 2007

The River City Rockers of Sacramento California finished 3rd in the NAFA AA World Series in Des Moines, IA. Details when available.

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River City Rockers Battling to Get into Title Game

Monday, August 20th, 2007

Rockers Drop Tough 1-0 Game, Play Monday for Spot in NAFA “AA” Finals

The River City Rockers of Sacramento, CA lost a 1-0 pitching dual with the Scarlett Sox of Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The Rockers’ Ed Gaspar threw a brilliant game in defeat. He threw a 3-hitter. The Rockers threatened to score and were led with hits by Greg Rogers, Mike Abernathy, Dave Jordan, Rusty Newnan and Scott Harrison. Scott made another beautiful catch, while falling over the fence. The 2007 NAFA World Series is being held in Des Moines, Iowa.

The Rockers opponent is unknown and they square off at 10:45 AM on Monday morning needing one victory to get to the Championship game.

Thanks to Kary Moore for this report. The power of the Blackberry !


Editor’s note: Ed Gaspar was just in Kitchener this week, pitching in the ISC II Tournament of Champions for the Lumberkings, including a relief appearance in the title game on Saturday. He must have driven faster than me to Des Moines 😉

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So Cal’s Rude Pac NAFA A-Major Champs !

Monday, August 20th, 2007

Spud Barker Pitches Rude Pac to “A Major” Championship, Garners MVP

From the SCIFL New blog:

in the 6th with Rude-Pac trailing 2-1, “Sup” got an on base on an error. Olin got the next two batters and “Sup” in the meantime made his way to third. Mizner drew a walk and Bobby Custairs went in to run. Javier Fierro doubled down the third base line to score Sup and move Bobby to third. CT Twisselman was up next and laid down a perfect suicide bunt to score Bobby for the lead. That’s all Spud’s needed as he shut down Olin in order for the win and Championship!.

Way to go RUDE-PAC!!!

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NAFA Announces First Round Games for A-Major, AA and AA-Major

Friday, August 10th, 2007

[Des Moines, Iowa] – First round games times for the first weekend of play at the 2007 NAFA World Series in Des Moines Iowa are now posted, as well as they bracket for the Class AA-Major tournament.

Information for each class can be found at the following links:

Class A-Major
Class AA
Class AA-Major

For all information and results for the 2007 NAFA World Series, make sure to visit the website at http://www.2007ws.nafafastpitch.com.

Brett Bresnahan
NAFA Webmaster
breshz(at)minnesotafastpitch.com
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2007 Deadline for Largest Ever Men’s Masters World Series Nearing (Aug 13)

Thursday, August 9th, 2007

2007 NAFA Masters World Series in Rockford, Illinois Sept. 8-9 and for Carson City, Nevada
Sept 15-16.

The entry deadline for your entry fee and entry form to be mailed to us is August 13th so that we can prepare start times and email those to the coaches as soon as possible.

I have put an entry form at the bottom of this email for your convenience. There are no Friday games so every team should be prepared to play at 8 am Saturday morning. Our goal for championship games was 3pm but some divisions are so large that we may need the 4:45 round if people don’t have to fly out. If they have already made plane reservations then we will work it out.

Over the last 5 days we have had several entries by email and phone especially for Rockford and if your name is not listed here, email us and we will add it or if your name or city is wrong email us back. Please forward this info to other teams that you know may be interested in articipating.

The following teams have verbally committed to play in the 2007

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NAFA Rosters Needed

Wednesday, August 8th, 2007

From

In preparation for the upcoming NAFA World Series, all participating teams are to submit a tentative roster with numbers to the NAFA Statistician.

The NAFA World Series set a new standard by providing up to the minute box scores for games played in the tournament. We were able to do this due to use of scoring software at the diamonds that allowed for us to enter games on palm pilots and immediately download and send to the media outlets.

In order for this system to work we must have tentative rosters at least one week in advance to enter player names and numbers into the system. Rosters can be amended at the managers meeting. Teams not submitting their rosters will need to make sure this is done at the managers meeting.

Please submit rosters to nafastats@hotmail.com

Your help in this matter is greatly appreciated.

Tony Schaaf
NAFA Statistician
nafastats(AT)hotmail.com

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Long Beach Black Sox, Flor de Cana Top Alliance in 2007

Tuesday, August 7th, 2007


From the SCIFL website:

The 2007 final Alliance Tournament Standings have been completed. No surprise in the A-Major as the Long Beach Black Sox have had a firm grip on the number one position since the second week of the season with the race for second being the position teams played for. For second, Rude-Pac edged the Panteras by two points.

The big race was in the A division between the So Cal Hustlers and Flor de Cana (Latin Heat). The Hustlers held the lead since week one but Flor de Cana kept pace and chipped at the lead each week. They finally caught up to the Hustlers to bring the teams into a tie going into the final weekend. With both teams being eliminated from the tournament at
the same point in the bracket, Flor de Cana lone win in the tournament to take sole possession of first place after the dust had settled.

Congratulations to all teams for a great season and the new Alliance Champs Long Beach Black Sox and Flor de Cana.

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