Courtesy of ISC II stat man Hank DeWild and via 
, here are the box scores from the final day of play at the 2009 AAU International Tournament, Sunday, January 25, 2009:
Quarter Finals
Sebringville Sting vs NY Gremlins Knights
Midwest Stampede vs Los Socios, Venez.
Team Minnesota vs Mac’s C Fastpitch
OH Battery/Stockpack vs Chicago/New York
Semi Finals
Sebringville Sting vs Midwest Stampede
Chicago/New York vs Mac’s C Fastpitch
Championship Game
Chicago/New York vs Midwest Stampede
Thought you might enjoy a preview of our ad for the upcoming 2009 ISC Media Guide. (below).
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Many of you will no doubt recognize the pitcher in the photo as Canadian Wayne Wells, who helped pitch the Waterdown Hammer team to a runner-up finish in the 2008 ISC T of C. Wayne was kind enough to grant us permission to use his photo in the ad.
The ISC Media Guide is one of the longest running publications in all of men’s fastpitch, and a “must have” for fastpitch fans. The guide includes a good portion of the material that appears on the official ISC website, www.iscfastpitch.com, including a recap of the prior year’s ISC World Tournament, and ISC II Tournament of Champions, with line scores, team and individual photos, award winners, directory and photos of ISC staff, ISC record books, rules, Hall of Fame inductions and more. We’ll post a note on this blog with the guide for 2009 is out.
The publication of this year’s guide, as well as a number of past year’s guides, is overseen by ISC Executive Director Ken Hackmeister and compiled by ISC Guide Managing Editors, Ed Kirner, of Montgomery, Illinois and Blair Setford of Mississauga, Ontario. The guide will include a number of Maddy’s Photos, including a number on the cover. Last year’s cover (above) also featured several shots by Maddy.
Our announcement for last year’s ISC Media Guide was posted on March 29, 2008, so release of the 2009 Media Guide is well underway, and due out, I suspect in about a month. We’ll be sure to let you know when it is.
Fastpitch fans can purchase ISC Media Guide for prior years:
Send check of money order for $7.50 (U.S.) payable to ISC. Mail to Ken Hackmeister 153 E. 200 S – – #10 – Farmington, UT 84025, or email Hackmeister at iscken (at) comcast (dot) net for information about ordering using either Visa or MasterCard.
1st Annual K4 Sports Men’s Fast Pitch 2 Day Tourney
ASA Open Invitational
February 28 – March 1, 2009
2 Day Event – (SAT 9am to 4pm / SUN 9am to 1pm)
4 game minimum with team trophies & tourney t-shirts for 1st & 2nd place
$ 395 per team
Deadline for sign ups is MON February 23rd.
You can register your ASA fast pitch team at this link :
http://www.playvictorylane.com/tournament_hosting.html
All Teams need to be ASA registered :
http://www.azasa.org/2009/09.Adult.Team.Registration.pdf
Hotels near the park (5 minutes away) … ask for the park room price :
Residence Inn by Marriott at Happy Valley
Courtyard by Marriott at Happy Valley
Ask for Rachel Van Hook at 623-580-8833
Victory Lane Sports Park
www.playvictorylane.com
From SoftballNewsLA.com:
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La fotografÃa es un arte. Es el arte de capturar momentos únicos e irrepetibles, y dejarlos plasmados para la inmortalidad en el papel o en un soporte digital. Tomar fotos deportivas no sólo requiere un conocimiento acabado del arte de la fotografÃa, sino también un conocimiento y un acercamiento al deporte en cuestión, que le permita al fotógrafo identificar el momento exacto cuando gatillar su cámara y tomar una imagen perfecta. Maddy Flanagan reúne ambas condiciones. Cada una de sus fotos es una prueba de sus dotes como fotógrafa, pero también de su pasión y su experiencia en el mundo del softbol.
Maddy’s Photos comenzó en 2001, tomando fotografÃas en torneos de softball locales donde su marido, Jim Flanagan –editor de la prestigiosa página Fastpitchwest-, participaba. Desde entonces Maddy’s Photos ha crecido hasta abarcar los más prestigiosos torneos de fastpitch masculino tanto en los Estados Unidos y Canadá como, más recientemente, en el hermoso paÃs de las Bahamas.
Este año, Maddy tuvo el privilegio y la suerte de disparar una vez más su cámara en al AAU Internacional Tournament en Orlando, Florida. Esta edición ya es la sexta vez consecutiva que Maddy y su cámara recorren el Disney’s Wide World of Sports, tomando fotografÃas de este prestigioso torneo. Recordemos que este torneo contó con importante presencia de jugadores y equipos latinos. Las fotos de este torneo pueden verse aqui.
Un ejemplo del trabajo de Maddy Flanagan. Potolicchio, Gervasutti y Montero, campeones del AAU international Tournament 2009.
Algo similar sucede con el ISC World Tournament. La página de Maddy cuenta con galerÃas de las dos últimas ediciones del ISC y del ISC II, sin dudas el evento más importante del mundo en el softbol de clubes, en donde se pueden encontrar excelentes imágenes de los mejores jugadores del mundo, incluidos los muchos latinos que año a año participan en el ISC.
Maddy Flanagan. Una mujer que pone su enorme talento para la fotografÃa al servicio de su pasión –y la nuestra-: el softbol.
(Google) translation after the jump:
(The translation is a little rough and literal, but enough to give you a sense of what they are saying.
Courtesy of ISCII statistician Hank DeWild, we are pleased to post the box score from the 2009 AAU Championship game. Watch for more box scores this weekend.
Click here to view.
It was the Chicago/NY Dominicana 3rd inning when they broke things open. That outburst included the 3 run home run by Rob O’Brien featured in our earlier YouTube video clip:
Chicago/New York 3rd – AlmonteSandy grounded out to 1b unassisted. Guzman A singled. CorcinoRuddy homered, 2 RBI; Guzman A scored. Leonardo E singled. DeGroatFrank walked; Leonardo E advanced to second. Ropue Juan pinch ran for DeGroatFrank. O’Brien Rob homered, 3 RBI; Ropue Juan scored; Leonardo E scored. Rodriguez O flied out to rf. Taveras G grounded out to 2b. 5 runs, 4 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
Courtesy of the folks at the AAU (www.aausports.org), I am pleased to post a full color PDF copy of the 32-page program sold at the 2009 AAU International tournament this year. This year was the tenth year that the AAU has held the tournament, which started in 2000 with just 8 teams, and has grown to 40 teams this year (with 15 more wanting to get in). The program includes this year’s schedule of games, all 40 rosters, and lots of color photos taken by Maddy over the past six years.
Thanks to Melanie Aguila of the AAU, who prepared the program, and to tournament Director Alex Linares for permission to post it her for you.
(it’s a large file, so please be patient)
NY Gremlin Knight’s Derek Pukash Makes Debut on Ballparkradio
We are pleased to share the archived broadcast of one of the games carried live on Ballparkradio.com from the 2009 AAU Tournament. This one was broadcast on Friday night, January 23, 2009, at 7pm EST between the Pete Quaranta’s Adco Tool Shed team from Staten Island, New York against Hill United of Ontario, Canada.
(be patient, large file, takes time to download, especially first time)
The broadcasters for this one were Kyle Smith, and the newest member of the Ballparkradio crew, Derek Pukash (who was in Orlando as a member of the New York Gremlin Knights team). Judging from the emails we received, Derek’s performance in the booth was well received. (Disregard the scrolling listing of broadcasters on Windows Media player — I was not on the broadcast – it was Derek taking my place that night with Kyle, as I was a little under the weather, and we wanted someone who knew the NY team well, as Derek did. ) Derek has been inked for an encore in Rock Island, Illinois this summer, at the ISC II Tournament of Champions, where he will once again do double duty, as a player and broadcaster.
As you will hear, the broadcast starts a little abruptly — that’s because Kyle was getting us on the air on the fly. We were in the midst of moving our equipment from one diamond to another, after our earlier 5pm broadcast, and they decided to start the game 15 minutes ahead of the 7pm game time — without us. Kyle didn’t miss a beat, and got things rolling in minutes, so you only miss the pre-game and first batter. Hope you enjoy the broadcast.
We extend our thanks to Pete Quaranta and the folks at Adco Tool Shed, who sponsored the broadcast, enabling us to bring it to fastpitch fans live that night. Team cap logo below, for the two sponsor team — Adco, and Tool Shed.
We’ll be posting additional broadcasts from the 2009 AAU International Tournament, with list posted below the jump.
Noticas de fastpitch en español
www.softballnewsla.com
We note some updates to this Spanish language fastpitch news site, which we mentioned in October.
http://www.softballnewsla.com/blog/
Click here to view the site in English (Google Translation)
Beautifully done site.
I see the site is linked up to the coverage of the 2009 ISF World Championships. We heard from a number of Spanish speaking players at the AAU tournament in Orlando that they are looking forward to following the tournament, which includes a number of Spanish speaking countries, including Argentina, Venezuela, Puerto Rico and Mexico. During the Ballparkradio broadcasts of the 2008 ISF Junior Worlds, we received a number of emails from folks listening in Argentina and Mexico. One clever fellow in Argentina opened a chat room and was translating our play-by-play to his Spanish speaking friends that did not speak English.
www.softballnewsla.com will be a great place for Spanish speaking players and fans to follow the games in July.
Fastpitchwest has a page in Spanish to assist Spanish speaking players and fans to the game. Click here.
En espanol, for our Spanish speaking friends, translation courtesy of our friend Guido Silbert, who is attending school presently in Spain.
Noticas de fastpitch en español
Estamos orgullosos de compartir un link a un nuevo sitio de fastpitch en español:
http://www.softballnewsla.com/blog/
Sitio muy bien diseñado.
He visto que el sitio esta linkeado a la cobertura del mundial ISF 2009. Escuchamos en el torneo AAU de Orlando que un grupo de jugadores de habla hispana estan deseando seguir el torneo que incluye varios paises de habla hispana, incluyendo Argentina, Venezuela, Puerto Rico y Mexico. Este sitio de noticias va a ser un gran recurso para seguir la cobertura en español.
Durante la transmision de Ballparkradio en el mundial ISF Sub-19 del 2008, recibimos un gran numero de correos electronicos enviados por seguidores del fastpitch esuchando desde Argentina y Mexico. Un ingenioso seguidor Argentino abrio una sala de chat y tradujo jugada a jugada para sus amigos hispano hablantes que entendian el ingles.
www.softballnewsla.com va a ser un gran lugar para jugadores y fanaticos de habla hispana para seguir los juegos en Julio.
Fastpitchwest apoya un sitio en idioma español para ayudar a conectar jugadores y fanaticos de habla hispana en el deporte:
http://www.fastpitchwest.com/espanol.htm
An article posted about the success at the AAU of of Argentines Gervasutti, Pottliccio and Montero:
Editor’s note: The following comes from David Carrillo, of the Flor de Cana team in Southern California, from a section on their team website, entitled “Tales from the Diamond”. I thought you might enjoy it, as I did.
For those of you not familiar with David, (nickname “Cubano”), he is one of the top players in the So Cal travel league, the SCIFL, a five-tool player, and organizer of the Flor de Cana team. (The team is sponsored by Flora de Cana, a top-shelf rum )
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Tales from the Diamond
Fastpitch softball is a game that has grown near and dear to my heart. Although I consider myself a rookie to this game, I can say with certainty that every weekend I’ve dedicated to the sport has resulted in at least one memorable moment.
I would like to offer this segment of the Flor de Caña (FDC) website to retell your stories from the field. Anyone can contribute a tale about anything they find entertaining, amusing, hilarious, or worthy of being retold. The only thing we ask is that stories be in good taste and not speak negatively about a specific player, umpire, league official, etc. Please feel free to send your stories to carrilloda@earthlink.net for publication on the FDC website.
-David Carrillo
” The Only One that Matters”(By David Carrillo)
Every person has their own reason for participating in adult sport leagues. For some it’s recapturing that glimpse of what once was in high school or college. For others it’s the thrill of flirting with what never was. There are those that view the sport as a means of improving physical conditioning and their counterparts that see it as an excuse to get away to have a few beers.
A commenter to MaddysPhotos.com writes about the 2009 AAU Photos:
“Cant seem to find any pics of the team from ohio. Why is this ? Ohio teams are always left out but always in the running this year I think 5th”
A reply was posted to the commenter, but in case you don’t see it there, you’ll find some on pages 18, 19, 22, 23, and 24 of the galleries.
Editor’s note: From time to time, we receive emails asking why there are no photos of a particular team or player. Let me apologize in advance to anyone left out or who feels left out. It’s going to happen, despite best efforts.
This year’s AAU tournament had 40 teams, playing on six different diamonds, two of which were located in the north 40. That’s about 600 players, give or take, plus tournament officials and fans. Maddy arrived late Thursday night, started shooting first thing Friday morning, and shot straight through the title game on Sunday, about 3000 shots in all. (enough to develop some serious carpal tunnel on that trigger finger :-)). She works hard to try to get photos of as many teams as is possible. I know because she’s left me at the hotel early in the morning, more than a time or two, in order to cover a team that she’d otherwise miss.
The process to review and process the photos takes a solid weekend of work at the computer, and some tough choices about which ones to post. In the end, she tries to choose a cross-section of teams, include her best shots, that capture the action, story and feel of the tournament. Due to legal (patent) limitations, she is limited to 500 photos per event. (lawyers!) So that means about three-fourths of the shots she took wound up on the cutting room floor. (Some good ones of you, no doubt) 🙂 If you don’t find the photos that you’re looking for, chances are you will in time.
Anyway, you can write to Maddy directly at maddy (at) maddysphotos (dot) com.