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Virginia Classic Tournament – This Weekend

Thursday, July 5th, 2007

Fast pitch softball tournament in Hampton this weekend

Fast pitch softball returns to Hampton Roads this weekend as the Virginia Classic tournament will take place starting Saturday at 9:30 am at Francis Asbury Elementary School in Hampton. Four teams will play a round-robin schedule on Saturday and the standings after those games will determine championship bracket scheduling on Sunday.

The host team is the Peninsula Merchants (10-5) who open the event taking on Suffolk-based GP Gwaltney at 9:30 a.m. Following that will be PA Power and Sketchers from Baltimore at 11:15.

World class pitcher Bill Hillhouse will throw for the host Merchants this weekend. This marks his first pitching appearance in Hampton as he threw for the Merchants in their last Mid Atlantic Fastpitch Travel League weekend going 2-2 with a save striking out 52 in 29 innings. He has pitched at the highest levels of men’s fast pitch softball since 1990 including stints on the national teams of the USA and Great Britain. Hillhouse has pitched or coached on six of the world’s seven continents.

PA Power has loads of national tournament experience as they won the 2005 Amateur Softball Association Class C Nationals and followed that with the 2006 National Softball Association National Championship. The Merchants have faced PA Power earlier this year in the Mid-Atlantic Fastpitch Travel League tournament and lost 7-1. Sketchers is a combination of two teams from Baltimore that will bring strong pitching to the tournament.

For more information on the tournament, please contact Media Director Jim Heath at 757-846-5369.

Virginia Classic
Francis Asbury Elementary
Hampton, Va.
Saturday’s Schedule
9:30 am: Game 1 – Peninsula Merchants vs. GP Gwaltney
11:15 am: Game 2 – Pa. Power vs. Sketchers
1:30 pm: Game 3 – GP Gwaltney vs. Sketchers
5:30 pm: Game 4 – GP Gwaltney vs. Pa. Power
7:15 pm: Game 5 – Peninsula Merchants vs. Pa. Power
9:00 pm: Game 6 – Peninsula Merchants vs. Sketchers
Teams seeded at conclusion of round robin
Sunday’s games
9:30 am: Game 7 – #4-seed vs #3-seed (loser eliminated)
11:15 am: Game 8 – Game 7 winner vs. # 2-seed
1:00 pm: Game 9 – Game 8 winner vs. #1-seed (championship)

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Jarvis Merchants Team Website

Thursday, July 5th, 2007

From:

The Jarvis Merchants have rolled out their new team website.

Editor’s notes: Jarvis is located in Ontario, Canada, with the Merchants currently ranked #15 in the June 21, 2007 ISC World rankings. That puts them just behind current #13 Portland and #14 Albaugh IA, and just ahead of #16 Quad City Sox and #17 Pueblo Bandits, CO.

The Merchants recently competed in the Monkton World Fastball Invitational, as the only non-top 10 team in the field and competed very well. The Merchants pitching staff is the talented trio of Brian Urquhart, Scott Wagar and Andrew Phibbs. Phibbs’ brother Allan is the catcher for the team. Top hitters for the Merchants thus far in the season are Pat Graham (.384) and Chris Staats (.378). Both have on-base percentages above .400. Brad Robinson leads the team in home runs with 6, while Pat Graham and Billy Simmons lead in hits. Graham and Robinson also leads in RBI.

We had a chance to see Scott Waggar pitch at the AAU International tournament in 2007, where he pitched very well, coming within one out of knocking off the ISC # 4 ranked Kitchener Hallman Twins. Ironically, in that game, it was Rino Dambrosio who got the game winner for the Twins. Dambrosio is a member of the Merchants regular 2007 roster, but was playing at the AAU with his old club, the Hallman Twins.

Be sure to visit their stats page, which includes box scores from all 27 games played to date, as well as individual player stats.

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SCIFL Schedule of Games for This Weekend at Santa Barbara, CA

Monday, July 2nd, 2007

The SCIFL will be back in action this weekend, July 6-7, 2007 in Santa Barbara, California.

Click here for Schedule of Games

For more details and maps, visit the SCIFL News blog by clicking here.

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Elkville Second at Altamont – Illinois

Monday, July 2nd, 2007

From the DuQuonn Evening Call:
By Jeff Profitt/GateHouse News Service

Elkville Fastpitch placed second in the prestigious Altamont Tournament Sunday night. Pictured in the front row (L to R) are Greg Winchester, Chad Reams, Aaron Hinter, Les Wood, Barry Maynor, Cade Freeman and Tim Herring. In back (L to R) stand Warren Yates, Waylan Leonard, Lance Bedar, Drew Porter, Nathan Hunter, Shawn Hunter and Troy Downen. Jeff Profitt photo.

Elkville Fastpitch enjoyed its highest finish ever in Illinois’ longest running in-season tournament, placing second late Sunday at the 32nd Annual Altamont Fourth of July Invitational.

Winning five of seven games over a span of less than 48 hours, Elkville (28-7) lost twice against tournament winner Wessel’s Coors Light of Teutopolis. (more…)

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PA Power Tops Solid ISC II field in Allentown

Monday, July 2nd, 2007

Catch up on the latest ISC II news over at our ISC II blog, “The Deuce”. Blair Setford, the ISC commissioner and regular contributor to both our blogs has been busy gathering the latest news. Among the noteworthy news was ISC II # 17 ranked PA Power from Pennsylvania winning the Allentown PA 4th of July tournament, ahead of # 7 Rise Fastpitch of PA, and #10 South Lebanon TNT. Fastpitch fans in California will no doubt remember PA Power as the winner of the 70 team 2005 ASA “C” National in Stockton, CA, led by ISC World all star Derrin Zechman.

Click here.

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So Cal Bombers win at Monkton

Monday, July 2nd, 2007

(click logo for official Monkton website)

From :

Sunday, July 1, 2007
CHAMPIONSHIP GAME
Sunday, July 01, 2007
Kitchener Hallman Twins at So Cal Bombers

2:15pm

So Cal Bombers: 3
Kitchener Twins: 2

Kitchener Hallman Twins: 0.0.0.2.0.0.0.x.x.x.2.4.2
So Cal Bombers: 2.0.1.0.0.0.x.x.x.x.3.5.1

So Cal pitching:
Sean Whitten: 7 IP, 2R, 0ER, 4H, 7K, 1BB
C: Darren Box

Kitchener pitching:
Todd Martin: 6 IP, 3R, 3ER, 5H, 13K, 0BB
C: Chris Shewfelt

So Cal hitting:
Darren Box went 2-3, 2 singles, 2 runs scored
Nate Devine had a 2 run home run.

For Kitchener:
Greg Miller, single
Jody Eidt, a single
Ron White, a triple with RBI
Grant Baechler a single

B1 Box singled for So Cal, Nate Devine 2 run home run.
B3 Box singled again, scores by Mark Santillano RBI single.
T4 Budke reaches on an error; Eidt a single; Ron Whilte RBI triple

MVP of the Game: Nate Devine – 2 run home run

AWARDS:

Most outstanding Pitcher went to Lucas Mata

Will follow up with the other awards via Brian.

All the results at:
http://www.alsfastball.com/uploads/File/Monkton2007.htm

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