From Al’s Fastball List: Memorial Weekend in Austin Texas – 28-29 May, 2005
Austin Texas
28-29 May, 2005
The stage is set for The Castro Concrete J.A.C. Invitational and
ISC II Tournament Of Champions Qualifier for TX,La,Okl,and Ark. (more…)
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Memorial Weekend in Austin Texas
Thursday, May 26th, 2005“Red Rock Ends With a Twist”
Thursday, May 26th, 2005
We have posted our feature story on the 2005 Red Rock Tournament, “Red Rock Ends With a Twist”,
We are pleased to advise that it will appear, along with photos, in next month’s issue of Softball Magazine. (print edition). 
For convenience, you may also read it here:
Red Rock Ends with a Twist
[ST. GEORGE, UT-5/12/05]-Now in its sixth year, the Red Rock Tournament at the Canyons Complex in St. George, Utah has become one of the premier events west of the Rockies, earning a reputation for a top notch facility, spectacular scenery, and attracting top caliber teams and players, including some colder climates like Canada who look to get their season started earlier than the weather back home permits. This year, an entire team from Minnesota, Vannelli’s decided to “go west” and play at Red Rock. For the second year in a row, some of the games were broadcast live on the internet, on Ballparkradio.com. (more…)
Portland Rose Cup Tournament Details Released
Wednesday, May 25th, 2005
The Portland Rose Cup & DeMarini Classic – June 25-26 – East Delta Park Complex
[ Portland, Oregon]-The Portland Rose Cup & DeMarini Classic fields for this years events appear to be full. Sixteen teams will compete in the Rose Cup & 8 will battle it out for the Classic title. Broken Bow returns to defend their 2004 Rose Cup title. Of course, they also are the defending ISC Champions. A big welcome back to this class team! The Boise Clippers return to defend their DeMarini Classic title. Prince George, BC makes their first Rose Cup appearance with Collin McKenzie and Kevin Careless added to their pitching staff. The Vancouver Grey Sox have beefed up their already strong roster with the addition of Evan Potskin (OF), Gerry Kennedy (1B/DH) & Rick Smith (P) to mention a few. The SoCal Bombers look very impressive with the addition of Tony Peeples (P), Todd Garcia (C), Jason Porto (Inf) & Travis Price (P). Team Rainey has added pitcher, Bricklen Anderson. More to come on fastpitchwest.com on the various teams, but it looks like a very strong field. Every year has featured lots of upsets and this year should be no exception. These teams come to play.
The Portland Rose Cup includes the following teams:
The Broken Bow Spirit Amsterdam, New York
Meralomas Vancouver, BC
Team CR DeMarini Portland, Oregon
Angels Fastpitch Vancouver, BC
Page Brake Salt Lake City, Utah
Team Rainey Whittier, California
Prince George Fastpitch Prince George, BC
Castlewood Jesters Pleasant Grove, Utah
Bodle Chiropractic Des Moines, Washington
Vancouver Grey Sox Vancouver, BC
NorCal Mavericks Sacramento, California
Morgan Transfer Olympia, Washington
SoCal Bombers Los Angeles, California
Larry Miller Cheverolet Salt Lake City, Utah
River City Rockers Sacramento, California
The Boise Clippers Boise, Idaho
The Portland DeMarini Classic includes the following teams:
CR/Adidas Portland, Oregon
Cleon’s Auto Tacoma, Washington
The Nighthawks Seattle, Washington
Globe Pacific Grants Pass, Oregon
Interbay Door Seattle, Washington
JRW & Associates Yakima, Washington
Rose City Merchants Portland, Oregon
The Boise Brewers Boise, Idaho
One of the Classic teams will move “up” to the Rose Cup in the event of any cancellations. A few teams have still not paid their entry fees.
Entry fees are $400 (US Dollars) for the Rose Cup & $300.00 for the DeMarini Classic.
Mail entry fee to:
Ron Boley
PMSA
10737 N. Union Ct.
Portland, OR 97217
(503) 823-3112 or go to: www.portlandsoftball.com
Host Hotels:
The Staybridge Suites (800) 238-8000
11936 NE Glenn Widing Drive
Portland, Oregon 97220
The Holiday Inn Express (503) 283-8000 ask for Shelly
2300 N. Hayden Island Drive
Portland, Oregon 97217
The Oxford Suites (800) 548-7848
12226 N. Jantzen Drive
Portland, Oregon 97217
Thrifty Car Rental is offering car/van discounts. (503) 254-2277 and mention the Rose Cup
Hooters at Mall 205 is offering a free Saturday evening Rose Cup Players food platter.
9950 SE Stark St.
Portland, Oregon 97216
Hooter’s representatives(??) will attend Saturday games and distribute food vouchers.
Official Photographer: Maddy Flanagan from www.fastpitchwest.com
Radio/internet broadcasts of six Rose Cup games with Jim Flanagan at: www.ballparkradio.com
Official tournament website: http://www.fastpitchwest.com/rosecup.htm
Tournament Director: Roger Jones (503) 887-3200 or jonesroger9@earthlink.com
Assistant Director: John Fitzgerald jnbfitz@msn.com
PMSA Director: Ron Boley pkronb@ci.portland.or.us
June 25-26th at Delta Park in Portland, Oregon
Travel/Prize Money: Rose Cup – $3,500.00 (between first 4 places) DeMarini Classic – $500.00 (1st Place winner)
An Official Portland Rose Festival Event
Umpire Crew Chief: Dan Duffy
Official Sponsor: DeMarini Sports
Game schedules will be released soon.
Hope to see you there!
Tom Ree
Tournament Advisor
mailto: ree1837@comcast.net
Boys of Summer Tournament, Denmark WI, July 8-10, 2005
Monday, May 23rd, 2005#5 ranked Circle Tap will host the 5th Annual “Boys of Summer” Tournament, July 8-10, 2005 at Denmark, Wisconsin.
Click Here for Schedule of Games for Boys of Summer Tournament
The atmosphere of the games at the tournament is very “fan friendly”, to say the least. The Circle Tap bar has a deck attached that you can watch the games from as well as some bleachers and you can even watch from inside the bar through the windows.
So Cal’s Team Rainey, currently #20 in the ISC preseason rankings will be among the teams competing. Team Rainey’s schedule on Saturday July 9 will be:
9:00 IS Knights vs Team Rainey
1:00 Team Rainey vs Dolan & Murphy
3:00 Team Rainey vs Circle Tap
The tournament boasts a strong field of teams, with 4 of the 12 in the current Top 10, and ten teams in the Top 25. Here are the teams entered, and their current spot in the ISC preseason rankings:
ISC Preseason Ranking/Team
1) County Materials, WI
2) The Farm Tavern, WI
5) Circle Tap, WI
6) IS Knights, ND
11) Heflin, MO
14) The Bar Avenue, WI
15) Patsy’s, NY
17) Townline/Shoots, WI
20) Team Rainey, CA
24) Blooomington Stix, IL
28) Aurora Dolan & Murphys, IL
ISC-II 3) The Bar Appelton, WI
ISC #18 Albaugh, Inc. sweeps opening weekend of ISC Qualifier, Omaha Nebraska
Monday, May 23rd, 2005Albaugh, Inc. sweeps opening weekend of ISC Qualifier, Omaha Nebraska (eScribe: Al’s Fastball List)
On the weekend, #18 Albaugh defeated #27 ranked Team Iowa, the squad that Sonny Perkins plays for, behind the pitching of Terry Luster. So Cal readers will recall that Luster pitched for Houston H.I.S. at the 2003 ISC World Tournament and was the only pitcher able to beat Team Rainey. Both Houston and Team Rainey finished pool play with 3-1 records, and Luster beat them again in a playoff game for the final “Sweet Sixteen” spot in the playoff bracket.
ISC #9 Midland Michigan Explorers Run Their Record to 7-0
Monday, May 23rd, 2005Explorers Weekend Results (Al’s Fastball) Two of the wins over the weekend were against Communiquest, Michigan, which finished third in the 2003 NAFA “A” World Series. For SoCal trivia buffs, Communiquest was the team that outsted 4th place finisher Anderson Homes of Wisconsin, the team that the Rounders’ Andy Lawry used to play on.
ISC #28 Aurora Dolan and Murphy take two from Rockford
Monday, May 23rd, 2005Aurora Dolan and Murphy take two from Rockford (Al’s Fastball) Pitcher Jason Iuli, who previously played in SoCal, picked up the win in the first of the two games, striking out 6 and going the distance.
Lots of New Game Info on ISC II at “The Deuce”
Friday, May 20th, 2005Upset City: Lots of ISC II game info at the new ISC II blog, “The Deuce” including reports on games with the #28 ISC-II team, the Niagara Snappers taking three out of four from the ISC #7 Hallman Twins, and the #4 ranked ISC II team, the Norwich Razorbacks sweeping them as well. The Deuce
ISC Out-of-Area Players List Posted
Tuesday, May 17th, 2005The ISC has posted its “Out of Area” players lists for 2005. The ISC rules require listing of players from outside the geographic region of the team. It makes for interesting reading. Not surprisingly, last year’s top teams lead the list in the number of OOA players, reigning champion Broken Bow (NY) and runnerup County Materials (WI) with 15 and 13, respectively. The Farm Tavern (WI) also has 13 OOA players. Patsy’s, a new team from the Northeast with New Zealand great Marty Grant has a dozen.
Southern California teams, the So Cal Bombers and Team Rainey have four OOA players each:
SoCal Bombers
Mendibles, Albert CO-NM-AZ-NV
Ormsby, Glenn WA-OR-BC
Waltier, Dean WA-OR-BC
Underhill, Nick WA-OR-BCTeam Rainey
Anderson, Bricklin WA-OR-BC
Hardesty, Chad CO-NM-AZ-NV
Smith, Rick WA-OR-BC
Whiteford, Daniel WA-OR-BC
Observant readers will note that Sonny Perkins, who pitches with Team Rainey during part of the season, will be with Team Iowa at the ISC World Tournament, while Rick Smith will bolster the Rainey squad. Nick Underhill pitches with the Vancouver Grey Sox during the season, but will pitch with the SoCal Bombers at the World Tournament, as the Grey Sox are not bidding to go, electing instead to compete in the Sr. Canadians.
For those of you not familiar with another of Team Rainey’s new additions, Dan Whiteford, he’ll also be with the Vancouver Grey Sox for the Sr. Canadians. Here’s what Vancouver’s Conrad Margolis had to say about him:
“Dan Whiteford, a versatile IF/OF from Duncan, BC has joined the Grey Sox after playing the last two seasons with Victoria Travellers Inn. In 2004 Dan was the starter at 2B for Victoria, but he also plays 3B, SS and OF. “Whitey” hits the ball hard from the left side and is a welcome addition to the team.”
Feel free to post a comment here if you note any other player movement of interest to our readers.
Curious what regions have the most players competing for out-of-area teams? Try these numbers:
E.Canada……………29
New Zealand……..20
Atlantic Canada…17
MO-KS……………….17
Canada West…….14
WA-OR-BC……….13
Mid Atlantic………13
CO-NM-AZ-NV..10
Southeast……………9
Australia……………..8
Illinois…………………5
Argentina……………4
Ohio……………………4
California…………….3 (bet you can’t name all three players)
NorthEast…………..3
Michigan…………….3
Dominican Rep……2
W. IA-NE-SD……..2
Indiana……………….2
Iowa……………………2
TX-OK-LA-AR…..1
Utah…………………..1
Wisconsin…………..1
#18 Albaugh, Inc. Wins Back-to-Back Tournaments
Monday, May 16th, 2005#18 ranked Albaugh Inc. won back-to-back tournaments in consecutive weekends at Des Moines, Iowa, including a pair of wins over #5 Circle Tap, behind strong pitching from Terry Luster (who tossed a no-hitter) and Darren Dubsky, making a strong bid to move up in the next set of rankings.