Dwayne Fowler of Team Rainey earned All World honors at catcher in the 2005 ISC World Tournament at Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Dwayne batted .333 in the tournament (5-15), with 2 Home runs, 7 RBI and 4 runs scored, in addition to turning in some stellar defense behind the plate.
For complete list of All World Team Members, click here.
Editor’s note: Dwayne, I have your trophy Email me.
2005 ISC World Championship Semi-Finals and Finals to be Streamed in Live Video
Dave Blackburn
8/19:
The ISC will be webcasting live video of the 2005 World Tournament Semi- Finals, and the Championship game. Those games will take place on Saturday August 20th at Noon, 2:00 PM, for the two semi-finals, and at 4:30 PM CST for the ISC World Championship Game.
Men’s fastpitch softball fans with a broadband Internet connection can watch the ball games in streaming video, on their computers. Just go to the ISC Home Page www.iscfastpitch.com
and click the listen live streaming audio button at the bottom of the page.
You can also click on www.ballparkradio.com
and click on the ISC Logo.
To full screen the video image, right click on the image and select the full screen option.
‘Duane Hookom of the Eau Claire organizing committee was instrumental in assisting our effort to assemble a streaming video signal, and link from the Gelein Field Press Box’ said Dave Blackburn, ISC Commissioner of Streaming and Broadcasting. ‘John Onorato of www.Sportsjuice.com has also been incredibly helpful in making this streaming video service available to fastpitch fans worldwide.’
The Noon CST semi-final ball game will feature The world’s #1 ranked team ‘County Materials’ of Marathon Wisconsin, taking on their in-state rival and world’s #5 ranked team, ‘Circle Tap’ of Denmark, Wisconsin.
The 2:00 PM semi-final ball game pits the World’s #2 ranked Farm Tavern of Madison, Wisconsin against the 13th Ranked Todd Martin-lead Hallman Twins from Kitchener Ontario Canada. Earlier on Friday, Martin and the Twins eliminated 2-time defending Champion Broken Bow Spirit by a 4-1 margin, ending The Spirits run of playing in 6 consecutive World Championship final games.
The ISC will crown it’s 59th annual World Champion, at the conclusion of the 4:30 PM CST game that will match the two semi-final game winners.
A`capacity Crowd of over 5,000 is expected at the Gelein Field Ball park for all the action. Internet fans will get all the play-by-play action through Ron Chambers, Ferdi Nelissen, and Dave Blackburn, who will also be produce the webcast.
Editor’s note: Even if you don’t have high speed connection to watch the video webcast, you can still listen to the game via audio. (it’s the same link to get either, but for audio, just click the second link for audio)
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The Elmira Ontario Cubs topped the Port Elgin Ontario Blue Devils 8-1 in the title game, and posted a perfect 8-0 record to claim the championship in the 2005 ISC II Championship at Casper Park in Chippewa Falls, WI on Friday, August 19, 2005. It was the first trip to the ISC II Tournament for both clubs.
Elmira pitcher Casey Halstead was the winning pitcher in the title game, posting a 6-0 record, with one save and an ERA of 0.23 during the tournament, earning honors as the Top Pitcher in the tournament as well as MVP.
The Elmira Cubs defeated last year’s runner-up Tavistock Smully’s Merchants, ON in a morning quarterfinal and the eventual 4th place finisher, the Alvinston ON Indians to reach the title game.
The young Port Elgin Blue Devils team (average age 24) took a 7-0 record into the finals, including playoff wins over the two-time defending champions Harriston ON Mercury’s and the eventual 3rd place finisher, the Ottawa Team Easton Thunder in the semi-finals,
Click here for the box score and play-by-play.
Score by Innings …………. R H E
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PortElginON BlDevils 010 000 – 1 7 0
Elmira ON Cubs……… 112 013 – 8 10 3
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Championship Game Scoring Recap:
Elmira ON Cubs 1st – ReinhartMatt singled to second base. rohman Josh out at first p to 2b, SAC; ReinhartMatt advanced to second. Harnock Mike singled to center field, RBI; ReinhartMatt scored. Harnock Mike advanced to second on a wild pitch. GrovumLyndon struck out looking. ThompsonBrad struck out swinging. 1 run, 2 hits,
0 errors, 1 LOB.
PortElginON BlDevils 2nd – Riley Mike singled to left field. Thede Greg reached on a fielder’s choice; Riley Mike out at second p to ss. TurcotteMatt singled to center field; Thede Greg advanced to second. Willis Matt singled to right field; TurcotteMatt advanced to second; Thede Greg advanced to third, scored on an error by rf, unearned. MitchellKyle flied out to cf. Lantz Brian grounded out to 2b. 1 run, 3 hits, 1 error, 2 LOB.
Elmira ON Cubs 2nd – Gutscher K singled to left center. Mink Chris struck out swinging. Hofstetter T reached on a fielder’s choice; Gutscher K out at second ss to 2b. FranklinJeff doubled to right center, RBI; Hofstetter T scored. ReinhartMatt flied out to rf. 1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 1 LOB.
Elmira ON Cubs 3rd – Brohman Josh walked. Martin Dan to p for Fawcett Rob. Brohman Josh advanced to second on a wild pitch. Harnock Mike grounded out to 3b; Brohman Josh advanced to third. GrovumLyndon struck out looking. ThompsonBrad homered, 2 RBI; Brohman Josh scored. Gutscher K struck out swinging. 2 runs, 1
hit, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
Elmira ON Cubs 5th – ReinhartMatt singled to right field. Brohman Josh out at first 1b to 2b, SAC; ReinhartMatt advanced to second. Harnock Mike struck out looking. GrovumLyndon singled to right field, RBI; ReinhartMatt scored. ThompsonBrad reached on a fielder’s choice; GrovumLyndon out at second 2b unassisted,
interference. 1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 1 LOB.
Elmira ON Cubs 6th – Thede Greg to 3b. Willis Matt to lf. Maas Brian to dh. Gutscher K popped up to 2b. Mink Chris singled to left field. Hofstetter T singled to center field; Mink Chris advanced to second. Bradley Mark pinch hit for FranklinJeff. Bradley Mark walked; Hofstetter T advanced to second; Mink Chris
advanced to third. Bradley Mark advanced to second on a wild pitch; Hofstetter T advanced to third; Mink Chris scored. ReinhartMatt intentionally walked. HamiltonMatt to p for Martin Dan. Brohman Josh doubled to center field, 2 RBI; ReinhartMatt advanced to third; Bradley Mark scored; Hofstetter T scored. 3 runs,
3 hits, 0 errors, 2 LOB.
Listen to the So Cal Bombers game live.
The So Cal Bombers are still alive at the ISC World, and will play Saskatoon Canada at 10am this morning, with the schedule of games revised due to rain yesterday.
Click here for the ISC World website.
Click here for the ISC Broadcast page to listen to their game.
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT AT 7:00 p.m. Thursday, August 18:
Play at the ISC II Tournament of Champions at Chippewa Falls, WI has been suspended until 8am Friday, August 19.
All games will resume at that time, from whatever point they were when play was suspended, on the same diamond. All games will resume promptly at 8:00 a.m.
The game between Alvinston ON vs. Fisher Group, Mankato MN was called after five complete innings of play, with the final score, 8-5. Alvinston will play the winner of the Niagara Snapper vs. the Ashland OH Merchants.
Team Rainey suffered a tough loss in the 7th inning of a game against the #5 ranked team in the world, Circle Tap. Behind the pitching of Rick Smith, Rainey led 4-2 headed into the 7th, on the strength of a four run outburst in the sixth inning:
Whittier CA 6th – Whiteford walked. Rainey singled; Whiteford advanced to second. Hunt singled; Rainey advanced to second; Whiteford advanced to third. Hardesty singled, 2 RBI; Hunt advanced to second; Rainey scored; Whiteford scored. Fowler reached on an error by ss; Hardesty advanced to second; Hunt advanced to third. Grebek singled, advanced to second, 2 RBI; Fowler advanced to third; Hardesty scored; Hunt scored. O’Brien to p. / for Dyck. Sauerheber grounded out to ss. Guinaldo reached on a fielder’s choice; Grebek advanced to third; Fowler out at home p to c. Duncan grounded out to p. 4 runs, 4 hits, 1 error, 2 LOB.
Circle Tap rallied for four runs in the 7th, with the final two runs coming on a walk-off-game winning home run.
Click here for the full box score.
The So Cal Bombers are a perfect 3-0 heading into their final round robin game, and appear to have locked up a spot in the Top 24 Single elimination playoff round. The Bombers will face their toughest opponent at 6pm CST (4pm on the west coast), as they take on Saskatoon, Canada.
Click here for the ISC World Tournament website for more details.
Click here for box and play-by-play for Game 1, a 3-2 win over Team Iowa.
Click here for Game 2, an 8-0 win over the Allerod Penguins.
Click here for Game 3, a 1-0 win over Ashland, OH, in which Tony Peeples struck out 13.
A note on the So Cal Bombers from “sledgehammer22”:
Just a quick note on Southern California’s OTHER team. The So Cal Bombers are 3-0 at the ISC World Tournament. We have received great pitching from all three on the staff and timely hitting from some veteren players. It’s been a great atmosphere here as both teams from Cali have showed up at each other’s games and supported. It’s great how two rival teams during the year realize that we are representing Callifornia and show up for their friends to support the cause. I hope we get two teams in the next round. It would be Huge for California fastpitch. Maybe you’ll hear more at the morning brief??? Who knows.
Editor’s note: Wish I could have been out to see your games, but with my broadcasting duties over at the ISC II in Chippewa Falls, (doing 24 games in 5 days), the only ISC World game I’ve had a chance to see an ISC World game was one that started at midnight Monday night, at the end of my ISC II day. While I thoroughly enjoy my work for the ISCII, I am a fastball fan at heart, and wish I had had a bit more time to see and cover the ISC games that were going on at the same time over in Eau Clair.
California can be proud of the performances of both the So Cal Bombers and Team Rainey at the 2005 ISC World Tournament, with both clubs advancing into the playoff round among the Top 24 teams in the world, and competing very well against the world’s best. We’ll do our best to round out the coverage of California’s teams at the ISC, and give both the teams a post tournament wrap that the achievments warrant. Great job, both teams.
At the ISC Board of Directors meeting, Tuesday, August 16, Greg Sepulveda and Ed Klecker were voted into the ISC Hall of Fame. Their induction will take place in next year in Kitchener, Ontario, Sunday, August 13, 2006.
