Tatis of El Paso Texas held off the hard-charging Marysville VFW team from Marysville, Pennsylvania , who dropped their very first game of the tournament and battled back all the way through the loser’s bracket, winning seven games in a row, including the first championship game, 4-2, before falling 2-0 in the “if” game.
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We’ve mentioned a “Golden State Renaissance”, and the strong finishes in national and world tournaments by California teams in 2007. With Vancouver’s gold-medal performance at the Sr. Canadians in St. John’s and CR/Adidas’ title in the ASA “B” National, it is only fitting to note that things go further north, to a couple more west coast teams, so we at Fastpitchwest tip our cap to those teams as well.
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CR/Adidas, Oregon was unbeaten throughout the 2007 ASA “B” National tournament, besting PA Power in the winner’s bracket final, and again in the title game, after PA Power outsted the third place River City Rockers of Sacramento, California.
Editor’s note: We’ve reposted this a third time, with the addition some additional high finishers in the ASA Nationals this weekend.
California teams are enjoying a resurgence of success at the national level in 2007 post season play:
1st: Rude Pac, NAFA A-Major Champions, Des Moines, SCIFL
2nd: So Cal Bombers, Palm Springs, runner-up at ISC World Tournament
2nd: Bakersfield Lumberkings, runner-up at ISC II Tournament of Champions
3rd: A-1/Taylor Farms, Castro Valley, CA, at ISC II Tournament of Champions
3rd: River City Rockers, Sacramento, CA at NAFA “AA” World Series;
River City Rockers, Sacramento, CA at the ASA “B” Nationals; and
Italian Athletic Club, Stockton, CA, at the ASA “A” Nationals
4th: Santa Rosa Fastpitch, at the ASA “C” Nationals
Judging from my email bag, the post season successes have renewed fan interest in California fastpitch as well. Waking up on the final day of the ISC World Tournament and ISC II Tournament of Champions, and seeing all three California teams (Bombers in ISC, Lumberkings & A-1/Taylor in ISCII) still in the hunt and then later in the day, a California team in each final was something to see.
This comment appeared in a story reflecting on the 2007 ISC and ISC II tournaments, by Dave Birnie, from Ontario Canada:
What’s up with California teams ? Although they didn’t win a title they had the SoCal Bombers in the ISC Final and the California Lumber Kings in the ISC II Final with another Cali team in the ISC II Semi Final, the A1 Taylor Farms. California well represented in 2007 !
From Timothy Hatten at the FPW/Illinois Fastpitch forum:
New Image moved back to the final game by holding of Travis Price and his fellow California teammates 4-3. Jeremy Holeman comes in relief to strike out the final batter to put out a late inning rally by So Cal.
WP Brian Lathrop
LP: Travis PriceVandalia went ahead with a 2 run single by Nick Casey in the 6th.
WP: Brad Sturdy
LP: Jeremy HolemanJohn Reed will be posting final results later on in the evening.
Tim Hatten
BHAC Pride Fastpitch
Softball Canada Senior Mens FP National Championship @ St. John’s Newfoundland
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Championship Game – (completed at 2:45 pm PDT)
Vancouver Grey Sox 1
St. John’s, Newfoundland Roebothan,McKay,Marshall 0
WP – Korrey Gareau
LP – Frank Cox
An exciting championship game played before a large and pro – Newfoundland crowd. Grey Sox 3B Rob Giesbrecht reached base on an error in the 5th inning and scored when DP Doug Cain doubled, thus providing the BC side with the margin of victory. In the bottom of the 7th the hosts led off with a double to make things very interesting, but Grey Sox pitcher Korrey Gareau battled his way out of the jam and the Vancouver side turned a double play to end the game.
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The Grey Sox become the first BC based team to win the National Championship since the 2001 Victoria Travellers Inn accomplished the feat at the annual event held that year in Summerside, PEI. They also become the first Vancouver based team to win the Nationals in 41 years since the Vancouver Blue Boys last did it in 1966 when the event was held that year in Calgary, AB.
Final Order of Finish
Gold – Vancouver Grey Sox
Silver – St. John’s Newfoundland
Bronze – Kitchener, Ontario Hallman Twins
4th – Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Aspen Interiors
5th – Stony Plain, Alberta Twiliters
6th – Newfoundland Impact Signs
7th – St. Thomas, Ontario Centennials
8th – Jarvis, Ontario Merchants
9th – Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Diamondbacks
10th – Charlottetown, PEI Fawcetts
11th – Brookfield, Nova Scotia Elks
12th – Newfoundland Grumpy Stump
Kitchener Nabs Bronze; Vancouver and Newfoundland to Play for Gold
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Softball Canada Senior Mens FP National Championship @ St. John’s Newfoundland
Sunday September 2nd (game played at 10:45 am PDT)
Vancouver Grey Sox 3
Kitchener, Ontario Hallman Twins 0
WP – Nick Underhill (7IP, 4 hits, 6ks, 1bb)
LP – Todd Martin
1B Derek Mayson was 2 for 3 with a double and a homerun. Doug Cain also homered for the Grey Sox.
With the victory the Grey Sox advance to the Championship game vs. the host team St. John’s Newfoundland Roebothan, McKay, Marshall with a scheduled start time of approx. 12:45 pm PDT. Likely starting pitchers are Korrey Gareau for the Grey Sox and Frank Cox for St. John’s.
Kitchener is now eliminated from the event and will be the bronze medal recipients.
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River City Rockers, CA fall to PA Power, 2-1 in loser’s bracket final, finish third in nation in the ASA “B” Nationals.
From Kary Moore:
Rockers lose 2-1 to Pennsylvania Power. They finish 5-2. CR/Adidas leads 3-0 in championship game in 1st inning.
Maybe someone should let the Illinois ASA know they are hosting the 2007 Men’s Class “A” National Tournament.
No mention of it here, on their official website. Has anyone found anything posted by them?
The only thing resembling a tournament website is this one, with the schedule of games. It shows a link for scores, but none are posted. The title game was slated to begin two hours ago, and nothing……
Thanks to John Reed, an interested fan, who posted scores through yesterday to the Illinois forum. .
Update from Chris, another FPW/Illinois forum member Sunday afternoon:
Looks like Vandalia Freight won the winner’s bracket, defeating New Image. IAC Stockton, CA vs. New Image in the loser’s bracket final, after IAC beat Cerro Gordo, which finishes 4th.
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The run by Santa Rosa Fastpitch through the loser’s bracket of the Class C National Tournament in Killeen, TX, ended this morning with a 12-6 loss to Marysville V.F.W. of Marysville, Pennsylvania.
Santa Rosa finished fourth in the 30-team field with a 6-2 record. Both losses were to teams from Pennslyvania, the first being a 10-0 setback to Twin Pine that dropped the team into the loser’s bracket. While Santa Rosa advanced through the loser’s bracket with a powerful hitting attack, Marysville, which lost its tournament opener, got some great pitching to stay alive in the loser’s bracket. They defeated the Albuquerque Hitmen 7-1, Memphis Dawgs 10-0, Twin Pine 1-0, and the Wolfpack 1-0 before eliminating Team Killeen in the game leading up to their meeting with Santa Rosa.
Thanks to Herb Dower for all of his reports throughout this tournament.