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Results from the second day of play at the NAFA “A” World Series at Harmodon Park, Sioux Falls, SD. Games begin again on Saturday at 9:00 AM with the losers bracket. Weather was hot and humid but very playable and enjoyable.

Flor de Cana won two games in the winners bracket for a 4:00PM matchup against home team Crowbar.

Palm Springs and Panteras both won their games to go into the elimination portion. Both team play at 9:00 AM with Palm Springs playing NW Implement, KS and Panteras II plays against Mac-O-Che, OH.

Complete list of Friday 08/07 Games:

Winners Bracket

10:00am:
GLC, MI: 15 – Main Street FP, WI: 9
Ramsey Financial, IL: 3 – Duluth FP, MN: 10
KC Angels, KS: 6 – Castle Plumbing, MI: 2
Wilson’s/Point Blank, WI: 5 – Winnipeg Bullets, Canada: 4

12:00pm:
Crouch Electric, MI: 2 – Crow Bar #2, SD: 4
Wizards of Oz, KS: 1 – Premier Bank, IA: 3
Scarlett’s, SD: 3 – Rice Lake Orangemen, WI: 2
Grumpy’s, IA: 10 – Flor de Cana, CA: 16

2:00pm:
GLC, MI: 12 – Duluth FP, MN: 10
KC Angels, KS: 9 – Wilson’s/Point Blank, WI: 4

4:00pm:
Crow Bar #2, SD: 9 – Premier Bank, IA: 4
Scarlett’s, SD: 3 – Flor de Cana, CA: 10

Lower Bracket
10:30am:
Sand Prairie Construction, WI: 7 – Communiquest, MI: 0
J&D Tube, WI: 11 – NW Implement, KS: 2

12:30pm:
Graber & Associates, SD: 13 – Boulder Rebels, CO: 5
Palm Springs Express, CA: 6 – Priority Mortgage, MI: 5

2:00 pm:
MG Construction, WI: 2 – Kasson StateTheatre, MN: 1
Mac-o-Chee FP, OH: 2 – Ricola FP, NJ: 14

2:30pm:
Clark Construction, IN: 13 – Young’s Prime #2, SD: 4
Alchin’s Disposal, MI: 6 – Cornerstone, PA: 8

4:00 pm:
Firesteel Snakes, Canada: 6 – Winterset A’s, IA: 4
Panteras II, CA: 7 – John’s Plumbing, NB: 0

4:30pm:
Castle Plumbing, MI: 16 – Ramona FP, SD: 6
Silver Stars, SD: 16 – Budweiser, WI: 5

Saturday’s Matchups
Winners Bracket
4:00pm:
Crow Bar #2, SD vs Flor de Cana, CA
GLC, MI vs KC Angels, KS

Lower Bracket
9:00am:
Boulder Rebels, CO vs Sand Prairie Construction, WI
Priority Mortgage, MI vs J&D Tube, WI
Palm Springs Express, CA vs NW Implement, KS
Mac-o-Chee FP, OH vs Panteras II, CA
Ricola FP, NJ vs John’s Plumbing, NB
Clark Construction, IN vs Winterset A’s, IA
Young’s Prime #2, SD vs Firesteel Snakes, Canada

Robert Hernandez for Benjie Hedgecock
rmh323 (at) roadrunner.com
www.nafafastpitch.com

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Men’s softball teams clash in Sioux Falls

DAVE MARTIN •
DAMARTIN@ARGUSLEADER.COM

Sioux Falls will continue to bask in the national softball limelight for the next two weekends, but this time it will be the men who are the headliners.

Forty teams from the U.S. and Canada hit the diamonds today through Sunday at Harmodon Park for the North American Fastpitch Association (NAFA) Men’s ‘A’ World Series, while 11 teams will be competing for the 23-under world series title starting Friday.

Championship games are set for Sunday at 3 p.m. for the ‘A’ teams and 4:45 p.m. in the 23-under division.

Next weekend, Aug. 13-16, there will be 20 teams in the ‘AA’ division and 44 teams in the ‘A’ major division battling for world series titles.

“It’s a big challenge for us to host these tournaments because we got into it late – just after Thanksgiving,” said event organizer Kerwyn Lykken, the state’s regional NAFA director.

“I got a call from the national office asking us to host it after they took the original bid away from Appleton, Wis., which didn’t follow through on promised field improvements.”

Lykken said the national office likes to locate the tournaments in the Midwest, due to geographical considerations and past success at sites such as Fargo; Mankato, Minn.; Des Moines, Iowa, and Eau Claire, Wis.

Teams competing in the ‘A’ division – the lowest of the five divisions (other than the 23-under group) – are expected from Canada and 13 states, including California, Colorado, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Jersey, North Dakota, Ohio, Wisconsin and South Dakota.

Lykken said teams are placed in divisions according to the rating given their top pitcher.

“We (state commissioners) rate all the pitchers by observing them pitch and clocking their pitches with a radar gun and then placing their teams in the various divisions to try to make the playing field as level as possible,” he said.

Lykken said men’s fastpitch is especially strong in Canada, the Midwest and “hotbed” states of Wisconsin and California.

South Dakota will be represented by six teams: Crow Bar No. 2, Scarlett’s and Silver Stars, all from Sioux Falls; Young’s Prime No. 2 from Watertown and teams from Ramona and Freeman.

Northwest Super Regionals
NAFA
Stevens Field, in Olympia

July 11-12, 2009
Dead Line—July 3, 2009
3 Game Guarantee-NAFA Bracket
email : pat.bucknell (at) gmail.com

8 teams Class: AA, (A major), A
Winner of Regionals to receive World Series berth paid for

Second place team to receive berths to NAFA, also but not paid.

ENTRY FEE: $350.00
Send Checks to:
Pat Bucknell, 2402 Abernethy Rd. NE, Olympia 98516
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