Archive for the ‘ISC’ Category

Bob Walsh Memorial Classic Scores

Sunday, July 23rd, 2006

From Al’s Fastball:

Game 1
Patsy’s 0 0 0 1 7 8

Seadogs 0 1 0 0 0 1

Game 2
Keating’s Fitness 1 0 0 0 0 1
Orilla Riversharks 0 3 0 0 X 3

Game 3
Kitchener Hallman Twins 3 0 0 1 0 4
Heflin Gremlins 0 0 1 4 X 5

Game 4
County Materials 1 0 3 0 0 4

So. California Bombers 0 0 0 0 0 0

Game 5
Keating’s Fitness 0 0 0 0 0 0
Kitchener Hallman Twins 2 0 2 0 X 4

Game 6
Seadogs 0 0 0 0 0 0
So. California Bombers 0 0 0 2 0 2

Game 7
Heflin Gremlins 0 1 1 0 0 2
Orillia Riversharks 0 1 4 0 X 5

Game 8
Seadogs 0 0 0 X X 0
7 run rule afer 3rd Inning
County Materials 8 0 4 X X 12

Game 9
So. CaliforniA Bombers 0 0 0 1 0 1
Patsy’s 1 0 0 0 1 2

Game 10
Heflin Gremlins 0 0 0 4 0 4 Rain

cancellation bottom 5th Inning
Keating’s Fitness 0 0 0 0 X 0 Official

Team Rainey Headed to ISC World Tournament

Wednesday, July 19th, 2006

Team Rainey, currently the #24 ranked team in the world, is headed to its fourth consecutive ISC World Tournament, August 11-19, 2006, in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. The So Cal squad competed in 2003 in Kimberly, WI (narrowly missing the Sweet 16), in 2004 in Fargo, ND, and last year in Eau Claire, WI. In last year’s tournament, catcher Dwayne Fowler earned Second Team All World Honors, and pitcher Rick Smith tied an ISC World Tournament record with 20 strikeouts in one game.

This year, Team Rainey added young 22-year old pitching sensation, Sebastian Gervasutti, from Argentina, (“C-Bass” as his teammates call him) to go with now veteran ace, Bricklen Anderson, who hails from British Columbia. Team Rainey also added former Team USA catcher Todd Garcia, who formerly played for the highly regarded Farm Tavern team, and no stranger to ISC World level competition.

Team Rainey will open the tournament at 5pm EST against the #9 ranked Kegel Black Knights. Rainey notched its biggest win of the year against Kegel recently, beating them at the Boys of Summer tournament in Denmark, WI. Should they get past Kegel, they would face the host team, the Kitchener Hallman Twins, a team they lost a 1-0 heart breaker to in an extra inning marathon that ended at 2 in the morning.

Here is the complete roster for Team Rainey, who will fly into Toronto, then head over to Kitchener, less than an hour away:

ISC World Tournament Roster (pitchers in bold)

#2 Stan Grebeck
#4 Nick Medredwich
#6 Tony Acedo
#7 Andrew Medredwich
#9 Rod Rainey
#13 Bricklen Anderson
#14 Tim Hunt
#16 Dwayne Fowler
#17 Chris Hunt
#18 Todd Garcia
#23 Jesse Duncan
#27 Don Didion
#28 Roy Guinaldo
#36 Sebastian Gervasutti
#41 Dee Nieblas
#44 Neal Sauerheber

(First in a series of articles about Western Region teams headed to the premier event in all of men’s fastball, the ISC World Tournament. Watch here at the Morning Brief for profiles on other western region teams).

ISC World Tournament Bracket and Schedule Released !

Monday, July 17th, 2006

Click here for link to official ISCfastpitch.com World Tournament page, including links to 2006 ISC World Tournament bracket and schedule.

Direct link to bracket for 2006 ISC World Tournament Bracket.
Direct link
to schedule of games.
Click here for Top 16 Ranked/Seeded Teams.
Click here for Last set of full rankings (June 21).

The following teams will be entered in the 2006 ISC World Tournament in Kitchener, ON, August 11-19. The order in which the teams appear is the order in which they qualified or received an invitation.

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Vancouver Grey Sox Take 3 of 4 at Portland

Sunday, July 16th, 2006

Vancouver, BC

The Vancouver Grey Sox travelled south to Oregon this weekend to play in a 4 game super series against CR Portland at Erv Lind Stadium.The Grey Sox prevailed in game one of Saturday’s doubleheader by a score of5 – 2. Trailing 2 -1 the Grey Sox rallied with two out in the top of the7th to score 4 runs for the victory. Derek Mayson lead the Grey Sox offenseand was 2 for 3 with a solo home run and 2 RBIs. Jeff Kawaguchi contributed2 RBIs as well, along with Brian Banner who had an RBI. Rob Gehrke andKevin Rasmussen lead the Portland attack with solo home runs. Winning pitcher was Rick Smith who had 15 ks and gave up 5 hits. Terry Luster took the loss and recorded 3 ks while surrending 5 hits.

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County Repeats as Casino Rama Champions

Sunday, July 16th, 2006

Still the (#) 1:

From Al’s Fastball:

CHAMPIONSHIP GAME
Game 25
Orillia River Sharks at County Materials

Orillia: 1 0.1.0.0.0.0.0.
County: 3 0.0.2.0.0.1.x

WP: Karl Gollan

Relief from Lucas Mata and Andrew Kirkpatrick who came in as the stopper in the 7th for County.

LP: Andy Jackson – went the distance and pitched a great game.

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Sunday Playoffs at Casino Rama

Sunday, July 16th, 2006

Click here for Al’s Fastball scoreboard from Casino Rama Fastball Tournament.

Al Doran is reporting direct from Casino Rama.

From Al’s Fastball:

[Sunday] Playoffs:

9:00am

2nd “A” Kitchener Hallman Twins – 3
3rd “B” Orillia River Sharks -4

2nd “B” NY Heflin Gremlins -1
3rd “A” NY Patsy’s – 5

Update:

11:15am – Semi-Finals

1st “B” The Farm Tavern – 3
Winner Game 21 Orillia River Sharks – 8

1st “A” County Materials – 6
Winner Game 22 NY Patsy’s – 1

1:45pm
Championship Game

Orillia Riversharks
vs.
County Materials


Details on the semi-final games, from Al’s Fastball:

Scroll down at Al’s once you click the link above.

or here:
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Houston Aces Results from Latin Tournament

Sunday, July 16th, 2006

Houston Aces Latin American Tournament Results

Panfilo Valedez Leads Houston Aces

The Houston Aces started play Saturday morning in the 57th Annual Latin American Tournament. In the round robin format the Aces had 3 games to play at 11 A.M., 1 P.M., and 5 P.M. The results of Saturdays game are as follows.

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Casino Rama

Saturday, July 15th, 2006

Click here for Al’s Fastball scoreboard from Casino Rama Fastball Tournament.

Casino Rama World Series of Fastball

Wednesday, July 12th, 2006

From Al’s Fastball:

Orillia, Ontario, Canada

With only hours to go before the first pitch will be thrown at the 9th Annual Casino Rama World Series of Fastball things are starting to take shape at the park. A full crew of tournament volunteers have just completed the installation of over 3,000 feet of temporary fencing, the installation of the new scorers booths and a general park clean-up. The crew will be back tomorrow morning to continue to set up the diamonds, install tenting, trailers and everything else that is needed for a tournament of this magnitude. (more…)

Trivia Time

Tuesday, July 11th, 2006

What do these two ballplayers have in common? (Scroll down for answer)


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Trivia Answer: They are both “Home Run Derby” winners. At top, is Ryan Howard of the Philadelphia Phillies, who won MLB’s version of the Home Run Derby Monday night at baseball’s All-Star Game. Below, is Brian Ree of the Portland Merchants, who put on his own “Home Run Derby” over the past weekend, at the Prince George Bear Classic men’s fastball tournament, hitting five (count ’em, “5”) home runs. A few differences, though….Howard hit his off of batting practice pitching, while Ree hit his in actual games, against ISC level pitching. Other differences? Well, Howard stands 6’4″, 250 pounds. Ree, just under 6′, and 180 pounds. Where does he get that kind of power? The answer, we think, is in that swing (on display on the latest cover photo at www.fastpitchwest.com). Ree, we are told, endured some good natured ribbing about “taking the juice”, including a visual search by “GK”, Gerald Kennedy. No steroids were found. But all kidding aside, anyone that has seen Ree in person would not think “juice”, but rather, recognize that he had developed into one of the rising talents in the game. Shades of Schellenberg. He and his Portland teammates won the Bear Classic, by the way, and will be in Vancouver at month’s end for the Vancouver Challenge. Sorry for blowing your cover, Brian.