3 ASA Men’s Fast Pitch Tournaments coming up this summer. They are:
* Texas ASA Men’s Fast Pitch State Championship – July 28-30 – College Station – Flyer Attached
* ASA Men’s Fast Pitch National Warm-Up Tournament – August 19 – 20 – Killeen – Contact Shane Ingram at icc05@earthlink.net
* ASA Men’s “B” Fast Pitch National Championship – August 30 – September 4 – Killeen –
Please make plans to attend!
Glenn Morrison
State Commissioner
Texas ASA
From the So Cal ASA Website: SOCAL ASA : Softball
2006 NATIONAL QUALIFER – PALM SPRINGS
(Click link above for scores and more)
The 2006 Region 14 Men’s “C†Fast Pitch Nationals was hosting this past weekend by Vicki Oltean and the City of Palm Springs, CA. Temperatures were mild for the desert for this time of year with the high’s in the 80’s with strong winds on Saturday only.
The tournament was small as only five teams, all from Southern California, entered. However, as usual, Vicki provided teams with more than enough games as she had a 2 game round robin to seed the teams into the double elimination. (more…)
From the So Cal ASA Website: SOCAL ASA : Softball
2006 NATIONAL QUALIFER – PALM SPRINGS
The schedule for Saturday’s round robin games are now available. Five teams will be competing for the berths to the “C” Nationals to be held in Marietta/Cobb County, Georgia Labor Day weekend. All teams in the tournament are from So Cal ASA. They are; Gamecocks, Latin Heat, Level One, Palm Springs Express and So Cal Hustlers. Games begin at 9:00AM Saturday morning in round robin format which will then seed to the teams into the single elimination bracket.Please remember that construction is still on-going on Mesquite so you will need to into the park at El Cielo Road off Ramon Road. All games will be played on fields 7 & 8, the ones by the snack bar.
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The Dower Report: (Thanks to Herb Dower for this information)
FOLSOM, CA–Santa Rosa Fastpitch held off late rallies by both Dry Creek and Elk Grove in Sunday’s final two games to win the rain-plagued Folsom Tournament’s Class C Division. Santa Rosa, which earlier this season won the Fairfield Tournament, again rode the pitching of Jeff Want to the title. Want won all three games on Sunday and went 4-1 overall with a 3.50 earned run average. (more…)
From the Black Sox website: Long Beach Black Sox Win at Lancaster
The Long Beach Black Sox playing without 6 players pulled together and won their 4th ASA Alliance tournament and 8th overall tournament. This would be the Sox 1st ever win at the A/B level. Todd Budke in relief of Chuck Vranich got the win with 5 innings of solid pitching scattering 6 hits with only 1 walk. (more…)
From the So Cal ASA Website: So Cal ASA Lancaster
LANCASTER – LONG BEACH BLACK SOX AND RAS CONSTRUCTION CHAMPIONS
The Long Beach Black Sox used their two game bye to their advantage to take the Championship in the “B” Classification portion of the Lancaster tournament. This is the second May in a row that the Black Sox have won the May Lancaster tournament. After going 3 – 0 on Saturday in the Round Robin, the Sox had to go through the Champions in the previous two tournaments to take the crown. In their first game, they had came out ahead of Rude-Pac 5 – 4 and in the Championship game they beat the Panteras 8 – 5. The Panteras were making their third consecutive Championship game of the year with wins over the Rounders and San Diego Primetime. The players on the Panteras are used to being in the Championship game with a good portion of them being from the Kanakas and Edge teams from the 2003 & 2004 seasons.
While the Panteras have gotten greedy and not letting others in the Championship game, in the C Classification portion of the tournament here was once again two new teams making their first appearances. RAS Construction (formally Santana Concrete) came out of the sixth seed position in the round robin and used plenty of offense on Sunday to take home their first Championship since the 2003 National Qualifier. (more…)
From the LB Black Sox website:
Long Beach Black Sox Top Seed at Lancaster, CA
Todd Budke is a world class player and today he proved he can also pitch when needed as he threw a complete game (6IP) and allowed only 2 earned runs in the Sox 9-4 win over The Amigos giving Long Beach the # 1 seed on Sunday. Budke allowed only 7 hits and 1 walk in the win. At the plate Todd was 1-2 with 2 walks and an RBI. Budke was pressed into duty when Randy Clay could not pitch due to his arm injury suffered earlier in the day. The Sox also brought out the bats again. Leadoff man Paul Rosebush continued his torid hitting going 3-4 with 2 runs. Andy Martinez followed suit going 4-4 with 2 runs. Fred Hanker was 2-4 with a run and RBI. Chris Minogue also stayed hot with a 3 run home run to brek the game open. Brett Semans was 3-3 with a run and a RBI. The Sox hit Amigo ace Anthony Martinez for 14 hits and 9 runs. The Sox now are guranteed at least third place and play at 11:30 versus the winner of 4 and 5.
From the So Cal ASA website:
LANCASTER
After two rainouts for the Santa Fe Springs tournaments, no rain is schedule this weekend so we will be playing. There are seven teams in each classification with the round robin games starting Saturday morning at 9:00 AM. Single elimination action will start 8:00 AM on Sunday.
Click here for full schedule and details.
Click here for standings.
May 20-21, 2006 at Folsom CA.
Click here for “B” division schedule.
Click here for “C” division schedule.
Next league weekend after this one is June 10-11, 2006 at Sparks, Nevada (near Reno). If your team is interested, contact Bob Chapel, email chapelRM (at) aol.com
“The Dower Report” from Northern California:
FAIRFIELD CA — The new look Santa Rosa Fastpitch team (formerly the Santa Rosa Storm) rallied from early deficits in three consecutive games here Sunday to win the Class C Fairfield Tournament behind the pitching of workhorse Jeff Want. Santa Rosa, which went 2-1 on Saturday to finish second in its bracket behind Country Club Villa in the round-robin portion of the tourhament, opened Sunday’s play by overcoming a 6-3 deficit to defeat Dry Creek (also of Santa Rosa) 10-7, with Want getting the win after pitching the final four innings and allowing only thee hits and one run.
(Scores and more after the jump)
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