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Snapper Shootout Quarter Final Scores

Sunday, June 3rd, 2007

Blair Setford reporting in on the Snapper Shootout, one of the best ISC II tournaments of the year taking place in Virgil, Ontario, right in the heart of the Niagara Region’s wine country. Scores courtesy Dan Bernard, Niagara Snappers

9:30 am
ISC II #7 Palermo Athletics 2 ISC II #2 Tavistock Merchants 1
WP: Gord Scott
LP: Steve Cook
Palermo wins the rematch of last year’s ISC II ToC championship game. Ryan Cummings, the top pitcher at the Tournament of Champions last year is not with Tavistock this weekend.

ISC II #1 Niagara Snappers 9 ISC II #25 Glencoe Astros 8
WP: Byron Demoe in relief of Mike Bateman
LP: Jason Dawdy in relief of Dan Konkle
For Niagara, Byron Demoe 3-run HR; Trevor Falk 3-run HR
Many were expecting a match-up of Corey Costello vs. Dan Konkle, but Costello only pitched his first game of year on Friday night and after another 8 innings yesterday, will only be available for limited action today, apparently. The Snappers have scored runs by the bushel this weekend, but have also given them up that way, too.

11:45 am
ISC II #5 Oswego CPI 3 Napanee Express Jrs 2 – 8 innings
WP: Shaun Winship
LP: Jordan MacDonald
19-year old MacDonald threw most of the innings for Napanee this weekend and looked very impressive. Winship will have to carry the mail for CPI on Sunday as Shaun Samson left Saturday night for work.

ISC II #10 Elora Brewers 13 ISC II #3 Hoffman Rise 10
WP: Jeff Detta, in relief of Todd Uhrig
LP: Art Devoe
HRs: Elora – Terry Martin, Todd Uhrig; Rise – Ryan Frank (2); Bart Fenstermacher, John Hurst
Rise were up 10-6 going into the last inning when the Brewers scored 7 runs. Uhrig started and went two innings before being replaced by Detta, then came back in to finish the game.

On the field: Semi finals:
# 5 ranked CPI vs #10 ranked Elora – likely starters Winship vs Mike Pinder;
#1 ranked Niagara Snappers vs # 7 ranked Palermo Athletics – likely starters Corey Costello vs Gord Scott.
# 2 Tavistock and # 3 ranked Rise PA have been eliminated.

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Best of the West – Sunday’s Schedule

Sunday, June 3rd, 2007

Sunday June 3
Championship Bracket

9:00 AM Field #1
4th Place Vs 5th Place
So Cal Tribes vs. Romie’s Angels

9:00 AM Field #2
6th Place Vs 3rd Place
Young Bucks vs. Tri County

10:45 AM Field #1
1st Place Vs Winner of 4th Vs 5th
Innovative Communications UT vs. winner 4th/5th

10:45 AM Field #2
2nd Place Vs Winner of 6th Vs 3rd
Panteras vs. winner 6th/3rd

12:30 PM
Championship Game

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Snapper Shootout Saturday Scores

Saturday, June 2nd, 2007

[ONTARIO, CANADA] – ISC II # 1 ranked Niagara Snappers topped the # 2 ranked Tavistock Merchants in opening round action at the Snapper Shootout.

Click here for the complete recap of Saturday’s scores.

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Woodstock Tournament Results from Ontario Canada

Saturday, June 2nd, 2007

Al Doran is at the Woodstock Tournament and posting scores game by game. His site, www.alsfastball.com is down at the moment, but you can still get the news on his back-up site, “NEWS-2” (the mailing list archive).

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Best of the West Tournament This Weekend in Santa Barbara, CA

Friday, June 1st, 2007

The 2007 edition of the 17th Annual Best of The West Tournament will take place at Field #1 and Field #2 at Pershing Park in Santa Barbara. Berths will be awarded for the ISC World Tournament, and the ISC II, Tournament of Champions.

Teams Competing:

Pool A
Innovative Communications
Young Bucks
Panteras

Pool B
SoCal Tribes
Tri-County
Romie’s Angels

Click here for the Schedule of Games.


The image above is from an old T-shirt from the 2nd Best of the West in 1992, in the days when the “Bombers” were from Vista 😉 Recognize any of those other teams? (more…)

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ISC II #1 vs. #2 Tonight at Snapper Shootout

Friday, June 1st, 2007

New # 1 Niagara Take On Defending Champs and # 2 Tavistock

[VIRGIL, ONTARIO] – When Niagara Snappers face off against Tavistock Merchants at the Snapper Shootout tournament tonight at 9:15 pm in Virgil, Ontario, it will be a battle of the top two ranked ISC II teams.

While the defending champions from Tavistock were rated #1 in the preseason rankings a month ago, news that they’ve lost three key players was enough to drop them to #2 in the latest rankings.

The top ranked Niagara Snappers failed to qualify for the ISC II Tournament of Champions, though a number of their players played key roles as pick-ups for other teams. Determined to get back to the show, the Snappers went out in the off-season and signed the top pitcher in the ISC II division, Cory Costello, who broke the ISC II strikeout record for a T of C, leading his hometown Micksburg Twins to a 3rd place finish.

The ink is barely dry on the latest set of rankings released today by the ISC II ranking committe, so we’ll see how many of them got it right. Are the Niagara Snappers the top dog to be reckoned with, or has the memory of Tavistock’s 2006 ISC T of C championship faded from the collective memory of the voters too quickly.

We’ll keep an eye out for that score and post it here.

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4 USA Teams in Top 10 of ISC II

Friday, June 1st, 2007

For the first time in recent memory, four (4) USA teams have climbed into the top 10 in the ISC II Rankings for June 2007. The Perkasie PA Rise Fastpitch team is the top ranked USA team at # 3, the same spot they wound up in at last year’s ISC II Tournament. Oswego, NY Cutro Professional Inspections (CPI) is right in the middle of the top 10 at # 5, with last year’s newcomer, the California Lumberkings right on their heels at # 6. Another Pennsylvania team rounds out the USA group at # 8, South Lebanon, PA TNT, who also played in their first ISC II in 2006 and will be looking to move up as well.

The ISC II Tournament of Champions has been dominated by Ontario area teams since its inception in 2002, though the Perkasie Rise PA squad broke into the Final Four in last year’s teams, with more USA teams looking like contenders in this year’s event.

1. Niagara, ON Snappers
2. Tavistock, ON Merchants
3. Perkasie, PA Rise
4. Elmira, ON Cubs
5. Oswego, NY Cutro Professional Inspections
6. Bakersfield, CA LumberKings
7. Palermo, ON Athletics
8. South Lebanon, PA TNT
9. Ottawa, ON Team Easton Thunder
10. Elora, ON Wellington Brewers

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Niagara Snaps Up # 1 Ranking in ISC II

Friday, June 1st, 2007

California Lumberkings Move Up to # 6

June 1, 2007 – When Niagara Snappers face off against Tavistock Merchants at the Snapper Shootout tournament tonight at 9:15 pm in Virgil, Ontario, it will be a battle of the top two ranked ISC II teams.

While the defending champions from Tavistock were rated #1 in the preseason rankings a month ago, news that they’ve lost three key players was enough to drop them to #2 in the latest rankings.

Moving up two spots to #3 is the Perkasie Hoffman Rise who are coming off their win in the first weekend of the Mid-Atlantic league.

Holding steady at #4 are the 2005 ISC II Champion Elmira Cubs while Oswego Cutro Professional Inspections come in at #5, up one from the preseason rankings.

A total of 32 teams from across North America received at least one vote from the panel of 12 rankers.

The top 10 are as follows:

1. Niagara, ON Snappers
2. Tavistock, ON Merchants
3. Perkasie, PA Rise
4. Elmira, ON Cubs
5. Oswego, NY Cutro Professional Inspections
6. Bakersfield, CA LumberKings
7. Palermo, ON Athletics
8. South Lebanon, PA TNT
9. Ottawa, ON Team Easton Thunder
10. Elora, ON Wellington Brewers

To see the full list, including how each committee member ranked the teams, please see the ISC II section of the ISC website at www.iscfastpitch.com.

The rankings will form the basis for seeding teams in the sixth annual ISC II Tournament of Champions which will be played August 14-18 at Budd Park in Kitchener and Kinsmen Park in Cambridge, Ontario. The tournament will feature 35 teams from across North America playing a four-game round robin schedule in seven pools of five teams each. The top three teams from each pool along with three wildcards will advance to a single elimination playoff bracket.

For more information, please contact:

Blair Setford
ISC II Commissioner
Email: blairjs(at)rogers.com

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Promo Video for 2007 ISC WT & ISC II ToC

Wednesday, May 30th, 2007

Courtesy Al’s Fastball via assist from our good friend Blair Setford, ISC II commish:

Thought we should share this little promo video produced by the Kitchener ISC Host Committee. The promo was produced to be played on the jumbotron at our local Ranger’s Junior Hockey games this past winter. Gives a good sense of the action that you can expect to see this August in Kitchener at the ISC World Fastball Tournament. Have a look and pass the link around. Looking forward to seeing everybody at the Ballyard in August.

–
Duncan Matheson
Tournament Chair
2007 ISC World Fastball Tournament

I got a sneak peak at this a couple of weeks back. The producers have done a great job putting this together. I hope everyone that runs a website will provide a link to it to help promote the game.

Cheers,

Blair

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Texaco Pirates Claim Bahamas Title

Saturday, May 26th, 2007

Three More Homers for Rhys Casley, Six on the Tournament to Lead the Way for the Pirates

The host Texaco Pirates from Man-O-War Cay in the Bahamas claimed the first ever Bahamas Invitational Tournament title, with 10-1 and 5-2 wins over the Presidente team from Miami Florida. For the third day in a row, Rhys Casley came up big, hitting three more homers on the day, to give him six on the tournament. For the second day in a row, teammate Barry Kahler went back-to-back with Casley, turning a 1-1 tie in the sixth into a four run outburst, and cruised to a 5-2 win. Doug Sleep was the winning pitcher, going the distance for the win, surrendering only a pair of solo home runs, one in the second and one in the 7th with two outs.

In the first game of the best of three championship series on Saturday, Texaco ran away with things, behind the stellar pitching of Rob Scheller and hitting of Rhys Casley. Casley entered the day with three home runs in the first two days, and has become the player that all of the local fans want to see hit. He did not disappoint them today, with two home runs in the first game, running his total to five on the tournament. (Casley added one more on the day, in the second championship, for six in the tournament.

First Championship Game

Texaco Pirates – 10
Miami Presidente – 1

WP- Rob Scheller
LP – Edney Bethel
HR – Rhys Casley (2) (TP); Alexis Hernandex (MP)

Second Championship Game

Texaco Pirates – 5
Miami Presidente – 2

WP – Doug Sleep
LP – Rob Schweyer

HR- Rhys Casley (TP); Barry Kahler (TP), Serrano Baillou (MP), Michael Baillou, Jr.

Watch for a full recap and photos later in the week.

Here is a link to the photos posted so far, on Flickr. Scroll to the prior slide shows posted here on Morning Brief.

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