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RAIN DELAY SUNDAY MORNING AUGUST 16 – update at 2:30PM central time
The earlier schedule posted has been changed – we are waiting for an official update.
Sunday August 16 – Games we plan and hope to do, though rain delay could result in elimination of one or more
MidWest Stampede vs NY Gremlins
Aspen Interiors vs Dolan & Murphy
The Farm vs Pueblo Bandits
Broken Bow Patsy’s vs Bar of Appleton
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Ballpark Radio, the exclusive provider of streaming audio and video for the International Softball Congress, is pleased to announce that it will be doing 49 live broadcasts from the ISC World Tournament and the ISC II Tournament of Champions in Quad Cities, IA-IL. The broadcast schedule for both tournaments is below.
Broadcasts from the ISC World Tournament will be streamed with four-camera video and audio through a new portal – www.ballparkradio.tv.
ISC II broadcasts, as they have for the past five years, will be audio streamed through www.ballparkradio.com.
Links to the broadcasts will also be available on the ISC website at www.iscfastpitch.com and Al’s Fastball at www.alsfastball.com
The Ballpark Radio team includes play-by-play broadcasters Kyle Smith, Jim Flanagan, Blair Setford and Lance Winn along with color commentary by Bill Hillhouse, Joe Todd and additional guests.
Players in both tournaments are asked to please fill out the online form at the links below to provide our broadcasters with some biographical information about you for use during the broadcasts.
World Tournament
Tournament of Champions
For additional information on Ballpark Radio or the ISC and ISC II broadcast schedule, please contact:
Program Directors
Jim Flanagan
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Blair Setford
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FULL SCHEDULE AFTER THE JUMP
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ISC WORLD TOURNAMENT
Moline, IL – August 14-21, 2009
Streaming Video:
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ISC II TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS
Rock Island, IL – August 18-22, 2009
Streaming Audio:
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The 2009 ISC World Tournament of Men’s Fastball will be carried live on Ballparkradio.tv, August 15-21, 2009, from Moline, Illinois part of the quartet of cities comprising Quad Cities, Iowa.
The streaming broadcat network will broadcast twenty (20) games over a seven day period, in both video and audio, culminating in the ISC World Tournament championship game at 7:00 p.m. on August 21, 2009.
The 2009 ISC II Tournament of Champions of Men’s Fastball will be carried live on Ballparkradio.com, August 18-22, 2009, from Rock Island, Illinois, part of the quartet of cities comprising Quad Cities, Iowa.
The Ballparkradio crew of broadcasters will be on hand to bring you all of the action, including play-by-play announcers, Kyle Smith, Jim Flanagan, Blair Setford and Lance Winn, along with color commentators Bill Hillhouse, Derek Pukash, Joe Todd, and others.
Fastball fans can view the games live, tuning in by clicking the “Click to Listen” or “Click to View” buttons right here on the here at the Ballparkradio.TV website.
Player Bio Forms
Players in both the ISC World Tournament and ISC II Tournament of Champions are invited to fill in the online player bio form to provide our broadcasters with some information for use during the games.
Click here for the ISC World Tournament Player profile form.
Click here for the ISC II Tournament of Champions Player profile form.
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BallparkRadio.TV will be doing live VIDEO and AUDIO broadcasts of selected games at the ISC World Tournament at Quad Cities, Iowa/Moline, Illinois.
Please fill out the form below to provide our broadcasters with some information about you for use during the broadcasts.
The schedule for broadcasts on BallparkRadio, for both the ISC World Tournament and the ISC II Tournament of Champions, will be available in the next couple of days.
BallparkRadio is the exclusive provider of streaming audio and video for the ISC and ISC II.
Jim Flanagan
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Men’s Fastpitch Live on the Internet
ISC WORLD TOURNAMENT
Moline, IL – August 14-21, 2009
Streaming Video and Audio: www.ballparkradio.tv
ISC II TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS
Rock Island, IL – August 18-22, 2009
Streaming Audio: www.ballparkradio.com
From the Quad City Times:
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By Doug Green
Quad-Cities pitcher Al Rebling delivers a pitch (Maddy Flanagan/ Contributed photo)
When the International Softball Congress World Fastball tournament returns to the Quad-Cities this week, it brings a rich history and tradition.
The Quad-Cities hosted the tournament from 1961 to 1969 and also in 1973. During those summers Rock Island’s Douglas Park was the center of the softball world.
Legendary Quad-City Times sports editor John O’Donnell wrote: “From Pennsylvania to California they came to visit this community and to compete for the top prize in the softball world.”
While what they are competing for is still the same, where they come from clearly is not. When the 24 teams head to Moline’s Greenvalley Complex on Friday, they will come not only from all over the country but all over the world. This year’s tournament will feature teams from the Dominican Republic and Canada and players from Argentina, Australia and New Zealand.
Then and now
In 1963, fans could listen to Ed Zack’s play-by-play of the semifinals and finals on WOC radio. For the last three years, the ISC has been streaming the tournament live online, with a team of a dozen play-by-play announcers and color analysts to describe the action. This year there will be a video stream of 15-20 games of the world tournament and an audio stream of 20-25 games for the ISC II tournament.
But at its core, it is the same game O’Donnell wrote about more than 40 years ago.
The game still centers around pitching and the ability to hit a sphere traveling 80 to 90 mph from only 40 feet away.
During the ’60s, the pitchers had the advantage. That gap has narrowed today.
The hitters have caught up to the pitchers because they see so many quality teams, thanks to round-robin play every weekend, Pat Sullivan said.
Sullivan has spent the past 45 years as part of the ISC. He was named an All-American catcher in 1969 and currently is the regional commissioner out of Dubuque.
Expectations
The players from yesteryear wonder how the tournament will be received now.
“You need local participation,” said Gary Dobereiner, who played for the locally-based Harrelson Motors team that won the world title in 1967. “Actually, softball in this area has gone down from the ’60s. Back in the ’60s we had six to eight teams in a metro league that were competitive.”
Games during that period consistently drew 3,000-4,000 people. A 10-day tournament easily eclipsed 30,000. The record for single day attendance at the world tournament in the Quad-Cities was 6,020, set in 1963.
But that was then and this is now. No one can predict what kind of reception the ISC will receive. That unknown is the main reason the Quad-Cities turned down its option to host the tournament again in 2011.
“For them to pick it up, they would had to make a decision before they knew how well 2009 was going to go,” ISC executive director Ken Hackmeister said.
Whether the Quad-Cities would choose to bid on a future tournament depends on how 2009 fares, Hackmeister said.
This year
When the world tournament kicks off on Friday, only two local team will be in the bracket – the Davenport-based Quad-City Sox and the Thomson (Ill.) Merchants.
The ISC II tournament will begin a week from Tuesday at Rock Island’s Campbell Complex. ISC II softball can be described as the triple-A to the world tournament’s major leagues. Three local teams – Walcott’s Lampliter Inn, Davenport’s Pizza Shack and Bettendorf’s Q-C Titans – will be among the 40 teams competing.
Way back when Champions of the ISC World tournament when it is was held at Rock Island’s Douglas Park:
1961 – Dautrich Realty, El Paso, Texas
1962 – Dautrich Realty, El Paso, Texas
1963 – Gardena Merchants, Gardena, Calif.
1964 – Paramount Chevrolet Impalas, Downey, Calif.
1965 – Ponoma Bombers, Ponoma, Calif.
1966 – Gardena Merchants, Gardena, Calif.
1967 – Harrelson Motors, Moline, Ill.
1968 – Long Beach Nitehawks, Long Beach, Calif.
1969 – Sal’s Lunch, Philadelphia, Pa.
1973 – Lakewood Jets, Lakewood, Calif.
TICKETS
Admission is $5 for adults and $3 for anyone 60 and over. Anyone under 16 is free.
A nine-day tournament pass is available for $35, $25 for 60-plus.
Those who played in the tournament during its last time in the Quad-Cities can get a 9-day pass for $19.60
First pitch, 6:00 p.m. CDT next Friday, August 14, 2009. Click logo for official website and more details.
First pitch, 6:00 p.m. CDT next Friday ! Click logo for official website and more details.
[Quad Cities, IA] – I’d like to invite any and all ISC and ISC II players, coaches, managers, officials and umpires to participate in the 2009 ISC/Special Olympics exhibition game. Last year’s game in Kimberly was a great success and we expect nothing but the same for Quad Cities.
Here are the details:
** 5:00 p.m.
** Wednesday, August 19th
** Diamond #8, Greenvalley Sports Complex
** Meet at the Main Diamond at Greenvalley at 4:30 p.m.
We’re going to try and get the Special Olympics team introduced on the main diamond, and then make the walk to Diamond #8. It’s a short distance between the two fields, and the Special Olympics team and the ISC players can make the trek together.
Once we get to Diamond #8, we’ll split the two groups up, mix and match the teams, and Play Ball!
Souvenirs Needed!!
Last year, many of the ISC and ISC II teams donated one of their hats, or t-shirts, or jerseys to the Special Olympics team – this gesture was very much a surprise to the players and they treated those mementos as treasures. I’d like to be able to do the same thing this year. Anyone who has something they’d like to donate, please let me know. Once we get to Quad Cities, you can give those items to myself, or Ric Thompson (who plays for the Bar of Green Bay).
Hope to see as many of our ISC family out to this game – if you’ve never participated in an event like this, I highly suggest it, you’ll be happy you did.
Kyle Beane
– Midland Explorers
– ISC Player Rep
From thecalifornian.com
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BY RYAN WALLACE
wallacer@thecalifornian.com
Last summer, it was a Salinas woman competing on softball’s biggest stage the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympic Games.
This summer, it’s a Salinas man taking part in North America’s largest fastpitch softball tournament.
While 39-year-old Ron Guzman doesn’t hold the distinction of being one of the world’s fastest softball pitchers like Monica Abbott does, he does carry that same passion for the sport.
For the past 16 years, Guzman has taken long weekend trips around the state and country to play competitive softball.
“It takes a lot out of you,” he said.
But playing in tournaments such as the International Softball Congress Men’s Fastball Tournament, Aug. 14-22, in Moline, Ill., makes it all worthwhile, he said.
Guzman and the Taylor Farms California Athletics are one of 24 teams to qualify for the ISC tournament.
The tournament includes players from across the United States, Canada, Argentina, New Zealand, Australia, Czech Republic, Venezuela, Dominican Republic, Denmark and the Philippines will be competing. More than 1,200 players and 4,000 fans daily are expected to take part in the event.
Guzman, who works for Taylor Farms, said the company has been the majority sponsor of the men’s fastpitch softball team since 2001.
Guzman said three-fourths of the team used to consist of players from Salinas. But after winning a national championship in 2002, the tournaments got tougher and a new caliber of players was needed.
The 2009 Taylor Farms team is primarily made up of Northern and Central California players ranging in age from 22 to 39. Some of those players came over after other softball organizations folded. Guzman, the team’s manager and first baseman, said about half of this year’s roster helped Taylor Farms win the ISC World Tournament of Champions in Appleton, Wisc., last year. That win automatically qualified the team for this year’s world tournament.
Taylor Farms opens the tournament on Aug. 15 against the Midland Explorers of Midland, Mich.
The # 20 ranked California A’s will open the 2009 ISC World Tournament against the # 10 ranked Midland Explorers, of Midland, Michigan on Saturday afternoon, August 15, at 1:00 p.m. CDT, 11:00 a.m. PDT/West coast time.
The California squad is comprised of a nucleus of players from last year’s ISC II Tournament of Champion California Lumberkings, as well as the So Cal Bombers, who finished 6th out of a field of 32 teams with a 4-2 record in the ISC World tournament. Midland finished 21st, with a 2-2 record last year. The Explorers are one of the longest running programs in the ISC and will be the host for next year’s ISC World Tournament.
The winner will advance in the double elimination tournament to face the # 7 ranked Vancouver Grey Sox, B.C. on Sunday night, August 16, at 6:00 p.m.
The loser will drop into the loser’s bracket to play the loser of game 11, on Monday morning at 11:00 a.m. CDT, 9:00 a.m. PDT, a second round game between the winner of Dominican Republic/Winterset and # 6 Jarvis, Ontario, Canada.