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2008 NAFA Masters Dates Confirmed

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

Thanks to Dave Birnie for providing this information:

East – Rockford, Illinois
West – Carson City, Nevada

The dates and locations for the 2008 NAFA Masters World Series have been officially announced. This information is supplied courtesy of NAFA Executive Director, Benjie Hedgecock. New for 2008 is the addition of a Women’s 35 and over division.

NAFA Masters East World Series

55-Over, 50-Over, 45-Over, 40-over, 35-Over, Womens 35-Over Rockford, Illinois(near Chicago) September 12-14, 2008 Friday evening to Sunday Afternoon 4 Game Guarantee, 3 Round Robin Games that seed all teams into a Single Elimination(If the number of teams is significant in any age class then we will break the Single Elimination Portion into an Upper and Lower Bracket on Sunday) First Game Friday Evening 5 pm and the championship at 3pm on Sunday Entry Fee $415 Ball: the new NAFA 120 stitch white cover white stitch cork center 47 core .375 compression ball

NAFA Masters West World Series

50-Over, 45-Over, 40-over, 35-Over, Womens 35-Over Carson City, Nevada(fly to Reno) September 20-21, 2008 Saturday Morning to Sunday Afternoon 3 Game Guarantee, 2 Round Robin Games that seed all teams into a Single Elimination(If the number of teams is significant in any age class then we will break the Single Elimination Portion into an Upper and Lower Bracket on Sunday) First Game Saturday Morning at 8 am and the championship at 3pm on Sunday Entry Fee $400 Ball: the new NAFA 120 stitch whi te cover white stitch cork center 47 core .375 compression ball.

NAFA Masters Program Committee

Mike Clark, East U.S. Co-Chair
Dave Birnie, East Canada Co-Chair
Jim Williamson, West U.S.
Lanky Johnson, West Canada
Benjie Hedgecock, Executive Director : nafafastpitch@gmail.com
Carley Parish, NAFA UIC
Check out the official NAFA web site : http://www.nafafastpitch.com/
or the Ontario Masters Fastball web site: http://eteamz.active.com/omf/

Stay tuned for further information as it becomes available.

Yours in Sport

Dave Birnie
Canada East Rep. & Co-Chair
NAFA Masters Committee
Web Site Administrator
Ontario Masters Fastball
Web Site : http://eteamz.active.com/omf/
E-mail : dbirnie(at)cogeco(dot)ca
E-mail : ontariomasters(at)hotmail(dot)com

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Las Vegas Road Trip with NAFA & SCIFL

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

NAFA and SCIFL present the “Las Vegas Road Trip” Men’s fast pitch tournament the weekend of April 5th and 6th. This will be a NAFA sanctioned event with the participating teams separated in the following divisions:

A
A-Major/AA (depending on amount of teams)
AA/AA-Major (depending on the amount of teams)

The splits in the higher classifications will be based on the amount of teams that enter. It is anticipated that 18 teams can be accommodated for this event and confirmation into the tournament will be based on the entry fee and roster being received. The entry fee for this tournament will be $375 and at the present time we will be using the NAFA 3-game guarantee bracket for all divisions. It is open to all NAFA registered teams. With a minimum of eight (8) teams in a division, the winner will have their 2008 NAFA World Series entry fee paid.

Tournament Directors for the event will be Robert Hernandez and Bob Chapel. UIC will be Clyde Bennett. Statistician will be Jan Tokorcheck. Game and player statistics will be posted on
www.scifastpitch.com . The tournament will be played at Hollywood and Shadow Rock Parks. Game times will be available once the tournament is filled or the Tuesday prior to the event.

Team interested in playing should contact Robert Hernandez at rmh323@roadrunner.com or 714-392-1387. All teams will need to submit a signed roster from their State Director with their entry fee. Checks can be made out to “SCIFL” and forwarded to Robert Hernandez, P.O. Box 1891, Anaheim, CA 92815-1891. Teams will be entered into the event in order of receipt of entry fees.

Travel Info

Hotel rooms have been blocked for your use at the following hotel:

Arizona Charlie’s Boulder
Full service hotel/casino/restaurants/bowling alley
www.arizonacharliesboulder.com
4575 Boulder Hwy, Las Vegas, NV
800-362-4040 ad reference “C-SCIFL” as the group name
Room rates:
Fri/Sat – $64 per night plus taxes
Sun – $39 per night plus taxes

These rates may decrease depending on the amount of rooms taken in the block. It is very important when calling to PLEASE request the rooms reserved under the name “C-SCIFL”. Rooms will be included in the block until March 5, 2008, after that you will have to beg Clay for the lower rate. There is also an RV park at the complex and you can ask for rates when booking. They will transfer you to the RV Park but unfortunately they can only provide a range of rates of $16 – $24 per night due to the unknown size of the rigs.

Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions regarding this tournament.

Robert Hernandez
NAFA Pacific Coast VP
P.O. Box 1891
Anaheim, CA 92806

rmh323@roadrunner.com
714-392-1387

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NAFA Announces Appointments for 2008

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007

So Cal’s Robert Hernandez Among New NAFA Officers

From NAFA Executive Director, Benjie Hedgecock and Ronn Kopp, NAFA President:

We are proud to announce two new Vice President appointments for 2008. Robert Hernandez has been appointed Pacific Coast Vice President and Mike Watson has been appointed the Lower Midwest Vice President. This brings the number of Vice Presidents back to 4 with Jon Kegel, Upper Midwest/Canada and Loren Lathrop as the Eastern U.S. V.P.

These two additions as Vice Presidents are outstanding individuals that always put the good of the program before anything else. They are both very intelligent and bring a wealth of knowledge to the table. They both are in the core age category of the people that play our sport. They both served as Tournament Director at this year’s very successful World Series in Des Moines, Iowa and will again serve as Tournament Directors at the 2007 Mankato, Minnesota World Series.

We would also like to introduce Tony Schaaf as out new NAFA Statistician who also is on the Executive Committee.

Congratulations to Regional Umpire-In-Chief, Henry St. Clair for being inducted into the NAFA Hall of Fame and to Todd Malnoury and to Bill Sklebar that were inducted as well.

2008 Executive Committee

Executive Director, Benjie Hedgecock, Oregon
President and Chair of Exec Committee, Ronn Kopp, Wisconsin
Vice President, Eastern U.S., Loren Lathrop, Wisconsin
Vice President, Upper Midwest, Jon Kegel, North Dakota
Vice President, Pacific Coast, Robert Hernandez, California
Vice President, Lower Midwest, Mike Watson, Nebraska
Umpire-In-Chief, Carley Parish, Canada
Business Manager, Kris Russom, Oregon
Webmaster, Brett Bresnahan, Minnesota
Statistician, Tony Schaaf, Wisconsin
Jim Williamson, President Emeritus, Washington
Pat Bucknell, Executive Director Emeritus, Washington
Dewey Yoke, Umpire-In-Chief Emeritus, Washington

Once approved Mike Clark, Masters Committee Co-Chair, Iowa

The members of 4 of the 5 NAFA Operating Committees are:

Masters Program Committee
Mike Clark, East U.S. Co-Chair
Dave Birnie, East Canada Co-Chair
Jim Williamson, West U.S.
Lanky Johnson, East Canada
Benjie Hedgecock, Executive Director
Carley Parish, NAFA UIC

Hall of Fame Committee

Chair Ronn Kopp, NAFA President

Research Jon Kegel
and the rest of the Executive Committee

International Classification Committee

Mike Clark, new Co-Chairman, pitchers, order of finish pull through info
Brett Bresnahan, Minnesota, Open level Assistant Coach, Minnesota Director
Jim Williamson, Washington, Former NAFA Classification Chair
Benjie Hedgecock, Oregon, NAFA Classification Co-Chair
Darren Strang, British Columbia Rep and pitchers evaluator
Jon Kegel, Has had a team in every class
Chad Mix, 2006 and 2009 Host, one of top catcher in game, Wisconsin
Ronn Kopp, President, State Director of largest program in NAFA
Loren Lathrop, Sees more softball than most of us combined
Brian Looft, has played, A, AA, Minnesota
Chris Wright, Northern California
Robert Hernandez, Southern California
Mike Watson, Midwest
Dave Birnie, Ontario, Canada

Regional Umpire-In-Chief Committee
Carley Parish, NAFA UIC
Pete Grebner, Midwest Region UIC
Henry St. Clair, Southern Region UIC
Greg Fowler, Northwest Region UIC
Danny Young, West Canada UIC
Bob Wagner, East Region UIC
Darren Gerrior, Central Canada UIC

Please change our email address in your address book. The new address for the National Office and Executive Director, Benjie Hedgecock is: Nafafastpitch@gmail.com

Thanks on behalf of both of us,
Ronn Kopp, NAFA President and Benjie Hedgecock, NAFA Executive Director

www.Nafafastpitch.com

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NAFA WoodBat Spring National

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007


[Denver, Colorado] – NAFA would like to announce the addition of the NAFA WoodBat Spring National to be held in Las Cruces over the weekend of May 3rd and 4th. Due to the tremendous success that the WoodBat National has had the past two years, NAFA felt that a Spring National tournament was the next logical step. In addition, we feel that the Southwest US is a perfect environment for the tournament due to climate as well as teams.

This tournament will be a mirror image of the Fall National in Colorado. All pitchers need to be on the NAFA AAA or lower list. We are extremely excited about the opportunity to bring a national tournament to the Las Cruces/El Paso fastpitch community.

NAFA will be releasing more information on this tournament over the next several weeks via the internet as well as at nafafastpitch.com. You may also contact myself at wyofastpitch@wyoming.com or at 303-475-8142.

Thank You,

Dave Parker
Rocky Mountain Director
NAFA Rocky Mountains
wyofastpitch@wyoming.com
303-475-8142

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Maddy’s Slideshow – 2007 NAFA Masters West at Carson City, Nevada

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007

Below is Maddy’s slideshow of the 2007 NAFA Masters West tournament, for all four divisions, 35+, 40+, 45+ and 50+., at Carson City, Nevada.

The fellow in pic 2 is the ageless Mike Trotter, who wore uniform number 68 — his age — while pitching for Northwest Old Growth in the 50+ division. Mike threw well, again, and is an inspiration to all of us who dream of playing for many more years. Not long ago, the radar gun said big Mike was throwing faster than his age. May we all age so gracefully.

If it seems like there are a lot of pics of those “Deadwood guys”, you’re probably right. Pic 3 is Deadwood player-manager Steve Miner getting the third place trophy from Benjie with some other guy hanging around. We even slippped a photo of Maddy into the mix, can you spot it?

The western looking town in some of the photos is Virginia City, just down the road from Carson City, Nevada, which is just down the road from Reno. It was my first time to Carson City, but I thought it made a great venue. Easy to get to (Reno airport 20-30 minutes away), with major highways leading right into town. Plenty of restaurants and hotels right near the field, not to mention casinos for those inclined, and a picturesque setting at the ballpark, a mere 10 minutes from the hotels. Hard to beat. (Also the best beer stand of 2007, with microbrews and others $2-$3 for a giant cup.)

Remember that you can control the speed of the slideshow, by mousing over the pics. The speed control is at the upper right. Just move that little slider if you want to speed them up. If you want to “hide” the little thumbnails, just move your cursor off of the slideshow. Yes, the thumbnails are really small, due to the number of photos, more than 300.

If for any reason you get a “no photos found” message, just click refresh on your browser.


Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.

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LB Deadwood Third at NAFA Masters West 50+

Monday, September 17th, 2007

The two Dans, Zupp and Regas Named to All World Series Team

The (editor’s) Long Beach Deadwood Masters 50+ team suffered its first loss Sunday afternoon at the hands of the eventual champions, Seattle Fasptitch, finishing third at the 2007 NAFA Masters West tournament, with a 2-1 record. The ‘Wood won both of its qualifying round games on Saturday and top seed for Sunday’s playoff round, but defensive miscues led to its demise on Sunday.


(Kneeling, left to right: Bernie Lopez, Paul Castillo, Jim Flanagan, Mike Encinas, Joe Crawford, and Dan Zupp; Standing, left to right, Steve Miner, Len McIver, Barry Woolery, Dan Regas, Dale Zeller, and Dean Bettencourt) Not shown: Joe Salcido

Pitcher Dan Zupp, and second baseman Dan Regas were named by NAFA to the All World Series teams for the 50+ divison. Zupp pitched in all three games for the ‘Wood, including a 1-0 complete game shutout to open the tournament, while Regas led the team’s offense, hitting in the third spot in the batting order, with a 4-for-5 performance in game 2, including a triple, double and two singles. Also turning in good performances for Deadwood were first baseman Dean Bettencourt (5-11), Bernie Lopez (4-10), including a bases clearing two-out double to break open game two against Nevada Power, and Mike Encinas (4 for 12, including a pair of doubles.)

Following its win over LB Deadwood in the semi-finals, Seattle Fastpitch went on to defeat the Texas Stars, 15-11 for the 50+ championship. Congratulations to Charlie Bendock and his Seattle crew.

The Texas Stars had a couple of wild ones Sunday, including an 18-16 semi-final win over the Bay Area Angels. Texas appeared to have the game put away early, with a run-rule in the offing, only to have the Bay Area Angels storm back to tie the game at 14. In Saturday’s qualifying round, Texas and Bay Area played to a 10-10 tie. Bay Area finished in a third place tie with LB Deadwood.

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2007 NAFA Masters WEST – Bracket Results

Monday, September 17th, 2007


(click logo to go to official NAFA Masters website)

Bracket results from the NAFA Masters WEST tournament, held at Carson City, Nevada, September 15-16, 2007.

35-and-over
40-and-over
45-and-over
50-and-over

We are still chasing down some scores, but the brackets at least give you an idea how things played out.

Full report, with all tournament teams and award winners due later this week, and will also appear at the official NAFA website.

Scroll down here at the Morning Brief to blog posts below for championship game results and MVP’s in the four NAFA Masters divisions from Sunday night, September 16, 2007.

Champions at the 2007 NAFA Masters West:

35+ – CR/Adidas, OR
40+ – Utah Fastpitch, UT
45+ – Tulsa Grey Sox, OK
50+ – Seattle Fastpitch, WA

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NAFA Masters West – 35+ Sunday Results

Sunday, September 16th, 2007

***** late sunday night news:**********************
35+ CHAMPIONSHIP GAME
CR-adidas 7,
river city rockers 3
mvp…rob gehrke
mvpitcher…terry luster
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watch for more complete recap of all Sunday’s games soon
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B1 EZ Promotions, Elk Grove CA/Seattle WA 5,
A4 Dresslerville AC, Gardnerville Nevasda 3

A2 CR/Adidas, OR 7
B3 Oroville Braves, CA 0

B2 Rainey/Mavericks, 9
A3 Fat City 5

FINAL FOUR

EZ Promotions
CR/Adidas
Rainey Mavericks
River City Rockers

11:30 semi-finals
B1 EZ Promotions vs. A2 CR/Adidas
B2 Rainey Mavericks vs. A1 River City Rockers

3pm Championship game

All game times PST

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NAFA Masters West – 40+ Sunday Results

Sunday, September 16th, 2007

************* late Sunday night final *******
40+ CHAMPIONSHIP
utah 8,
a1 tank-am west 6
mvp donny myers
mvpitcher…steve black
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watch for more complete recap of all Sunday’s games soon
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A2 NAFA Yard Dogs 7, B3 Fat City 0
B2 Tule Lake Aces 4, A3 Sea Yak 1

FINAL FOUR

Utah Fastpitch
NAFA Yard Dogs
Tule Lake Aces
A-1 Tank/America West

11:30am semifinals:

B1 Utah defeated over A2 NAFA Yard Dogs
A1 – A1 Tank/America West defeated B2 Tule Lake Aces vs.

3pm Championship game

All game times PST

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NAFA Masters West – 45+ Sunday Results

Sunday, September 16th, 2007

*** late Sunday night news *****
45+ CHAMPIONSHIP
tulsa grey sox over calgary qmax
mvps…mike combs and charles “lank” johnson
*****************************************************
watch for more complete recap of all Sunday’s games soon
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A2 Ladner Fastpitch, BC 7, Bay Area Merchants 0, forfeit
A2 Ladner advances to semifinal vs. B1 Calgary Qmax Solutions

FINAL FOUR
Calgary, Alberta
Ladner, BC
Tulsa
* TBD *

Semi-finals at 11:30am
A2 Ladner Fastpitch BC vs. B1 Calgary Qmax Solutions
A1 Tulsa Grey Sox vs. winner of A3 KHT vs. B2 Oregon Masters

Championship game at 3pm

All game times PST.

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