Game 10
Aspen.…………4 …………..9 Innings
County…………5
Sean Whitten LPAndrew Kirkpatrick WP
Game 11
Patsy’s………….8
Townline …….0
Adam Folkard WPTane Richardson LP
Game 12
Team Rainey ………..3
Kegel Black Knights….1
Bricken Anderson WP
Tim McCumber LPYours in FastpitchHank De Wild
(Rainey’s Bricklen Anderson comes up with big win against Kegel)
Bombers Win, Rainey Falls in First Round Games
Game 7
Aspen……………………….1
SoCal Bombers…………9Tony Peeples WP Sean Whitten LP
(So Cal Bombers pitcher Tony Peeples notches win)
Game 8
Townline …….8
Millers………..3
Betto Guerrineiri WPRob Schweyer LP
Game 9
Albaugh………….. 7
Team Rainey ……..4Terry Luster WP; Sebastian Gervasutti LP
Yours in FastpitchHank De Wild
Click here for Updated Standings
Editor’s note: Albaugh’s (and Team USA pitcher) Terry Luster has proved a difficult puzzle for Rainey to solve. They have a long history, dating back to the 2003 ISC World Tournament. In Team Rainey’s first ISC Tournament, Travis Price pitched them to a 3-1 record in pool play, the only loss coming against Terry Luster’s Houston H.I.S. Construction team. The two teams tied for the pool lead, with identical 3-1 records. (Rainey upset the #6 team in the world, Owen Sound, Canada for one of their wins.). Luster again faced Rainey in a playoff game, the first ever to decide a spot in the ISC World’s “Sweet Sixteen” Single Elimination bracket. Luster won the battle, despite a valiant battle by Rainey.
For those of us following the So Cal Teams (and players) at the Boys of Summer Tournament in Denmark, WI:
Budke HR Keys Farm Win in Opener
-Todd Budke hit a 3 run homer in the first inning of the Farm’s (WI) opener against Kegel Black Knights of Fargo, ND, then helped his teammates hold off a furious rally by the Black Knights, who scored 3 in the 6th and 3 more in the 7th, but came up a run short in a 7-6 loss to Budke’s Farm Tavern Squad. The Farm plays at 9:30am, 3pm and 5 pm EST (6:30am, 12noon, and 2pm PST).
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Former Teammates Squaring Off
One of the more interesting match-ups of the day will be the 5pm EST (2pm PST) game between Budke’s Farm Tavern squad, and Team Rainey. Budke played with Team Rainey in several early season tournaments, including the Red Rock tournament in St. George, UT. Additionally, former Team USA catcher Todd Garcia played a number of years for the Farm Tavern, but is now a member of Team Rainey, opting to stay and play closer to home to spend more time with his son. So instead of looking out at Farm Tavern pitcher Dean Holoien with a catcher’s glove on, he’ll be holding a bat.
–Team Rainey is back for their third visit to the Boys of Summer tournament and plays at 9, 1 and 3 pm EST (6,8 and 2pm PST).
-The So Cal Bombers make their first visit to the fabled Denmark, WI “old time fastball” facility, and play at 9, 1 and 3pm EST (6, 10 and 12 noon PST)
No scores reported for the So Cal teams yet, but keep an eye out here, and at our linked pages above.
Game #1
AuroraILDolan&Murphy 2, Denmark WI CircleTap 1 (Jul 07, 2006 at Denmark WI CT #1)
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Denmark WI CircleTap ………………000 010 000 – 1 6 1
Aurora IL Dolan&Murphy…….000 000 101 – 2 4 1Pitchers: Denmark WI CircleTap Bramwell Matt LP & Jeff WatmanAurora IL Dolan&Murphy – Portoliccio Juan WP & Brain Tobin HR AURORA – Havercroft Andrew. Solo in 7thBramwell Matt faced 2 batters in the 9th. CTKyle Magnusson 3X4 2 doubleDarren Derricks 1X3 rbi 2b in 5thD&M Andrew Havercroft 3X1 HRLuis Saldana 4X1 winning Rbi Game #2Townline 7, Stix 1WP Tane RichardsonLP Paul Algar Yours In Fastpitch,Hank De Wild
Game #2 Green Bay WI Townline 7, Bloomington IL Stix 1 (Jul 07, 2006at Circle Tap DMPU #2)
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Bloomington IL Stix. 000 001 0 – 1 3 1 (0-1)
Green Bay WI Townline 101 023 X – 7 7 1 (1-0)
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Bloomington IL Stix – Paul Algar; Cockman Aaron(6)& Dan Butler.Green Bay WI Townline -Richardson Tane; Guerrinieri Betto(7)& Aaron Neemia.Win-Richardson Tane(1-0) Loss-Paul Algar(0-1) HR GREENBAY – Shailes Nick solo in 3rd; Southam Travis 3R in6th. Travis Southam 2×3 HR 3rbisNick Shailes 1×3 HR 1 Rbi
Game #3
Fargo ND MinnDak 7, New York NY Pasty’s 0 (Jul 07, 2006 at DenmarkWI CT #3)
Fargo ND MinnDak…. 025 00 – 7 5 1 (1-0)
NY Pasty’s………………….. 000 00 – 0 0 0 (0-1)
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Pitchers: Fargo ND MinnDak – Schweyer Rob . & Scooter Lange New York NY Pasty’s – Muizelaar G; Folkard Adam(3);Rea Darren(5). & Frank DeGroatWin-Schweyer Rob(1-0) No Hitter Loss-Muizelaar G(0-1) T-1:15 HR FARGOMD – Foore Roman. 3 run in 3rdMDM-Foore Roman. 2X3 HR 3b 5 rbisJason Wandler 1X1 2 BB 2RS 2rbis Game #4Quad City Sox 100 000 0 1-5-1Orillia Riversharks 004 100 X 5-7-0 WP- Jonas MachLP- Paul Algar Yours in Fastpitch,Hank De Wild
Game: #4
Orillia ON Riversharks 4, Moline IL Quad City Sox 1 ———————————————————————-
Moline IL Quad City Sox 100 000 0 – 1 5 1
Orillia ON Riversharks 004 000 X – 4 7 0
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Moline IL Quad City Sox- Mach Jonas & Rodney Doak Orillia ON Riversharks – Cox Frank & Sean O’BreinHR ORILLIA – Kahler Barry 2run in 3rd QCKeith Peterson 3×3 3b 2b 1rsDaryn Miller rbiORSBarry Kahler 2×3 HR 2rbisPat MacKintosh 1×3 2rbi 1rsDerrick Zechman 2×3 2rs
Game: #5
MAdison WI The Farm 7, Fargo ND Kegel Black Knights 6 (Jul 07,2006 at Denmark WI CT #5)
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Madison WI The Farm. 400 003 0 – 7 6 0 (1-0)
Fargo ND Kegel…… 000 003 3 – 6 10 6 (0-1)
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Madison WI The Farm – Holoien Dean; Gareau Korrey(7) & Todd Twatchmann.Fargo ND Kegel – Langley Steve;Byrne Darcy(6)& Rob GiesbrechtWin-Holoien Dean(1-0) Loss-Langley Steve(0-1) T-2:14 HR MADISON – Budke Todd 3 run in 1st; Smet Dan 2 run in 6th.HR FARGOKBK – Boom Chad 2 run in 6th LangleySteve faced 4 batters in the 6th.Holoien Dean faced 2 batters in the 7th. FTTodd Budke 1×1 HR 3rbis 1bbDan Smet 1×2 hr 2 rbis KBKChad Boom 1×2 HR 2rbis 2bbJeff Ellesworth 2×4 2b rsRob Giesbrecht 2×4 2rbis
Game #6
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County Materials 7
Plangger’€™s 0
———————————————————————-Karl Gollan WP (1-0) & Pat ShannonDoug Sleep LP (0-1) Rick Plangger (4) Sean Zombowski Yours in Fastpitch,Hank De Wild
For All the Scores and more men’s fastball news, be sure to visit Al’s Fastball:
From the SoCal ASA website: So Cal ASA at Santa Fe Springs
ALLIANCE TOURNAMENT SERIES – WEEK 5
The Alliance Tournament Series finally makes it back to Santa Fe Springs, no rain in the forecast, for the fifth week of play. In what is generally one of the smaller tournaments of the year, there will be twelve teams battling for the Championship and to gain in the standings. With both the first and second place teams in each classification playing each other in the round robin, there could be some significant movement in next week’s standings.
Click link above for schedule information.
From ISC II Commissioner Blair Setford, over at our companion blog for the ISC II, “The Deuce”:
http://fastpitchwest.com/thedeuce/
An ultra-competititve field of 35 teams is set for the 5th annual ISC II Tournament of Champions August 13-18 in Kitchener/Cambridge.
Headlining the field is the defending champion Elmira, ON Cubs, joined by host team Bridgeport, ON PROforma Braves. See below for the full list of teams.
Each team will play four round robin pool games. The top three in each division, plus three wildcards, will advance to a single elimination playoff bracket.
The pool assignments will be based on rankings where possible, with exceptions made to ensure teams from the same areas and/or leagues are not playing each other in the round robin.
The schedule will be released in late July.
For further information, please contact:
Blair Setford
ISC II Commissioner
blairjs(at)rogers.com
or
Bob McGowan
ISC II Vice-President
jbob99(at)allstream.net
1 Elmira, ON Cubs – Defending Champions
2 Port Elgin, ON Blue Devils – 2005 Finalist
3 Bridgeport, ON Braves – Host
4 Toronto, ON Champion Indians – Canada East TL
5 Saginaw, MI Up-to-Date Painting – Mid Michigan TL
6 Perkasie, PA Rise – Mid-Atlantic Area
7 Oswego, NY CPI – Northeast Area
8 Ashland, OH Merchants – Ohio Area
9 Bakersfield, CA California LumberKings – CA-NV Area
10 Denver, CO Colorado Rage – CO-NM-AZ Area
11 Hermann, MO Black Gold – Gateway TL 1
12 South Lebanon, PA TNT – Mid-Atlantic TL
13 Harrisburg, PA PA Power – W IA-SD Area (invite)
14 Reading, PA Bob Hoffman’s Garage – MO-KS Area (invite)
15 Grande Prairie, AB Pride – Canada West TL
16 Yakima, WA JRW & Associates – WA-OR-BC Area
17 Thomson, IL Area Merchants – Iowa Area
18 Marshall, MI Rice Creek Lightning – Indiana Area
19 Sydney, NS Cardinals – Atlantic Canada
20 Elora, ON Wellington Brewers – Eastern Canada Area 1
21 Ottawa, ON Team Easton Thunder – Eastern Canada Area 2
22 Tavistock, ON Smully’s Merchants – Illinois Area (invite)
23 Micksburg, ON Twins – Rainier (NorWest) TL (invite)
24 Mitchell, ON Mets – Western Fastball Alliance TL (invite)
25 Orangeville, ON Resolve Kings – WI Classic TL 1 (invite)
26 Glencoe, ON Astros – KOTA Travel League (invite)
27 Kingston, ON Cowboys – Tri-State TL (invite)
28 Kitchener, ON Phoenix Outlaws – Northern Illinois Area (invite)
29 Alvinston, ON Indians – Gateway TL 2 (invite)
30 Waterdown, ON Hammer – Northern Illinois TL (invite)
31 Orrville, OH Orr Park Knights – Utah Area (invite)
32 Palermo, ON Athletics – Southeast Area (invite)
33 Harriston, ON Mercury’s – Wisconsin Area 1 (invite)
34 Stittsville, ON 56ers – MidWest Softball Congress TL (invite)
35 Fitzroy Harbour, ON West Carleton Electric – WI Classic TL 2 (invite)
Editor’s note: I am pleased to say that I will be back in the booth with the ISC II broadcast crew, streaming audio broadcasts of more than two dozen games, from Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. (Broadcast schedule due out in the coming weeks leading up to the tournament. Hope you’ll be able to tune in and join us.
From Dave Blackburn:
It is with great sadness that I am sending the terrible News about Kevin Herlihy passing away at age 58 in a NZ Hospital. The New Zealand sports News is beginning to report on his life as one of the greatest NZ athletes of all time.
Kevin was my special guest at the March 2006 Hall of Fame Dinner and graced us with his presence from NZ, to pay tribute to his former teammate Greg Sepulveda, on speaker phone and PA System.
Anyone who ever saw him pitch knew that he was one of the greatest of all time.
With Sad Regards,
Dave Blackburn
310-266-7803
daveb@virtvent.com
http://www.sportal.co.nz/othersports.asp?i=news&id=85060
New Zealand Softball is mourning the loss of one of its greatest stars after pitching legend Kevin Herlihy died of a heart attack at Waikato Hospital on Wednesday evening.
Regarded as one of the best softball pitchers in the world during his international career which spanned three decades, Herlihy was inducted into the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame in 1990.
The New Zealand pitcher was also inducted into the International Softball Hall of Fame in 1991 and the Softball New Zealand Hall of fame in 1995.
Herlihy’s career was studded with representative honours and he was the captain of the New Zealand team when it won the world title in 1984.
He also won world championship gold in 1976 when New Zealand shared the title with USA and Canada and won gold again in 1996 as pitching coach with the title winning New Zealand team.
Following his stellar playing career, Herlihy was a selector with the New Zealand
men’s team during the early 1990’s, pitching coach with the Black Sox in
1996 and attended the 2000 Olympics with the White Sox.Former Black Sox coach Mike Walsh remembers Herlihy as not only a great
softball player but also as a true friend.“In 1984 when we won he was captain and all the guys in the team showed
immense respect for him,” said Walsh.“I always remember after the final I took the match-ball and had all the guys sign it and I presented it to Kevin and all the guys in the team stood as one when I made the presentation.”
New Zealand Softball chief executive Dale Eagar was another to speak fondly of Herlihy.
“In terms of pitching ability, he was the best in world and he was acknowledged as such by all those who played against him,” said Eagar.
“As a man he was one of the funniest guys you could ever meet. He was a personality in his own right and a very talented sportsman.”
Herlihy leaves behind his wife Sandra and two children Michelle and Chris.
Denmark, WI-The 6th Annual Boys of Summer Open tournament is only a couple days away and the anticipation is brewing high to go with the forecast.The temperatures are supposed to be approaching 90 each day this weekend witha slight chance of rain later on Sunday. It is Wisconsin and the weathermen “have trouble predicting darkness after midnight “according to one of the locals. As you know due to tremendous response in the offseason we have expanded the tournament to 16 incredible teams and has been dubbed the”mini-World”by many. We’ve added a 3rd diamond for 7 games on Saturday andoneplayoff game. I invite all fastpitch fans to take this one in as it proves to be one of the best. Circle Tap is a tremendous sponsor of fastpitch softball on both the ISC and ISCII level for 12 years and will play host to this outstanding event. The Circle Tap diamond has that old school feel backfrom the barnstorming days, so I’m told, as it’s set in the country with trees in the outfield and a cornfield in the distance. Couple that energy with a beautiful modern tavern a few steps away and you haveall you can ever ask for at a ball park. Any of your favorite drinks anda large menu of food can be consumed as you take in the games through thelarge glass windows or hanging out on the deck, or catching some rays in the bleachers, or still yet under a shade tent down the 1st baseline. If you can’t make it the 20 steps into the bar there will also again be a beergarden, can beer this year, near the 1st base dugout. New this year will be a DJ in the bar both nights for your after game entertainment. A complete schedule can be found on our website, www.circletap.minnesotafastpitch.com, but here is a completelist ofteams:
County Materials-Marathon, WIAspen Interiors-Saskatoon, SKSoCal Bombers-Yucaipa, CAPlangger’s Furniture-Benton Harbor, MIFarm Tavern-Madison, WIKegel Black Knights-Fargo, NDAlbaugh Inc-Elkhart, IATeam Rainey-Whittier, CAOrillia Riversharks-Orillia, ONCircle Tap-Denmark, WIQuad City Sox-Davenport, IADolan&Murphy-Aurora, ILPatsy’s-New York, NYTownline-Green Bay, WIMinnDak Millers-Fargo, NDStix-Bloomington, IL
I’d have to say that is one of the finest and deepest field of teams I’ve seen in an open tournament. I’ve received a tremendous amount of e-mails from fans from around the US and Canada so we’re anticipatingthe largestcrowds ever spread out over the 3 diamonds.
Thank you for allof yoursupport and interest it makes putting this monster together all that much more enjoyable. Brilliant fans and great teams make a great event. Locations-I’ve received many e-mails looking for directions. Green Bayhouses the nearest hotels as Denmark is a town of only 2000 peoplebutluckily only 15 minutes from Green Bay and directly located ona freeway.To Get to Circle Tap from Green Bay- Take I-43 South 12 milesto theDenmark exit take a right out of town, go 2 miles to highwayNN, take aright and CT will be 1/4 on your right.To Get to Denmark Diamonds from Green Bay- Take I-43 South to Denmark exit and take a left into Denmark. Go through stop sign, down thehill and youwill see an M&I Bank in front of you with a big digital clock.The UpperMemorial Park diamond is directly behind the bank. The lowerdiamond isfound in the same park, just follow the right field line about50 yards.Please let me know if you have any further questions
ZakkCT Fastpitchzakkflash(at)greenbaynet.com
Yakima, Washington – Portland’s Old Growth team will begin play in the ASA 50 & Over Nationals in Prescott, Arizona on Friday July 7th.
Old Growth was runner-up in the 50-OVER NAFA Masters in Carson City in early October last year. The champion was Prescott Badger Roofing, this year’s # 1 seed for this ASA National.
Old Growth Manager Bob Rider of Portland has assembled a good hitting group of players from Seattle and Portland. But he reached to the southern tip of Oregon for his pitching staff. Ageless Mike Trotter of Eagle Point, OR and Morgan Mapes of Medford, OR will be counted on to minimize the opposition’s bats.
Mike Trotter has thrown no lower than the ASA Class A level for 6 decades. Morgan Mapes pitched for Global Pacific, runner-up in the ASA Class “C†Nationals in Stockton last year. In Portland on June 25, Morgan pitched his team to the Northwest Class “B†Regional title.
Northwest Old Growth’s first game will be on Friday night July 7th, 6 PM against Galpin Ford. Galpin Ford is one of two host teams to be representing Prescott in this tournament.
