Japan Gold, USA Silver, Venezuela Bronze
From 
ISF World Cup Prague – final – Sunday, June 24, 2007
Game 39
USA – 5
Venezuela – 2
Game 40
Japan – 2
USA – 0
WORLD CUP Men – Day 7, Championship – JAPAN WON THE FIRST WORLD MEN’S CUP
After embarrassing defeat from Japan US team came back today beating Venezuela 5:2. Travis Price threw a good game against dangerous Venezuelan hitters.
Championship Game:
Kunihiko Iida pitched one hitter game against USA in front of 4-5 thousand spectators in a live broadcast game of the Czech national TV. 8 hits by Japanese hitters made the difference. What stats does not show is we had the great game ended up with double play with runners on first and second, one out. Iida fielded the ground ball and instead of throwing to third he had turned the ball in to the second fo succesfull doulbe play, which ended the game. Crowd appreciated nice plays from both teams but Japan got their heart.
Individual awards:
Best Pitcher: Kunihiko Iida (Japan)
Best Hitter: Hiraku Yokoyama (Japan)
MVP: Christopher Delawelle (USA)
Homeruns: Frank De Groat Jr. (USA)
We had the best tournament ever played in Europe. Thanks to all teams, umpires and organizers for this great introduction of mens fastball to Europe !!!
Pavel Prachar
ISF WORLD CUP – DAY 7
CHAMPIONSHIP GAME: Japan vs United States
Game: 40 Date: 24.06.2007 Time: 17:30 Field: Krè Altron –
central
Inning 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E LOB
V United States of America (USA) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 3
H Japan (JAP) 1 0 0 0 0 1 – 2 8 2 5
Winning Pitcher:
Kunihiko Iida
Losing Pitcher:
Sonny Perkins
Umpire:
Hora HP, Tùma 1B, Vedlich 2B, Dolejs 3B
USA Line Up: 1. LaLonde CF, 2. Miljavac RF, 3. Moraga SS, 4.
Delarwelle 1B, 5. DeGroat V, 6. Divine DP, 7. Miller B. 2B, 8. Cascaes 3B,
9. Hunt LF, 10. Perkins FLEX P
Japan Line UP: 1. Suzuki LF, 2. Yokohama CF, 3. Ishimura RF, 4.
Ono DP, 5. Sakai 3B, 6. Yamasaki C, 7. Hazeyama SS, 8. Tanaka 1B, 9.
Nishimori 2B, 10. Iida FLEX P
1st inning USA: at bat LaLonde: pop fly out to SS, at bat
Miljavac: pop fly out to 2B, at bat Moraga: pop fly out to LF; 0 RUNs, 0
HITs, 0 ERR, 0 LOB
1st inning Japan: at bat Suzuki: groundball hit to 3B + ERROR by
3B = runner at 1B, at bat Yokohama: SAC bunt to 3B + ERROR by 3B = runners
at 1B+2B, at bat Ishimura: SAC bunt out to 1B-2B at 1st = runners at 2B+3B,
at bat Ono: SAC Fly out to LF = 1 RBI + runner at 2B, at bat Sakai:
groundball out to 2B-1B; 1 RUN, 0 HIT, 2 ERR, 1 LOB
2nd inning USA: at bat Delarwelle: strike out, at bat DeGroat:
strike out, at bat Divine: strike out; 0 RUNs, 0 HITS, 0 ERR, 0 LOB
2nd inning Japan: at bat Yamasaki: double hit to CF = runner at
2B, at bat Hazeyama: pop fly out at RF = runner at 2B, at bat Tanaka: pop
fly runing bunt at 1B, at bat Nishimori: single hit to LF + tag out at home
plate on runner from 2nd; 0 RUN, 2 HITs, 0 ERR, 1 LOB
3rd inning USA: at bat Miller B: chop hit out to 3rd baseman –
1B, at bat Cascaes: strike out, at bat Hunt: strike out; 0 RUN, 0 HIT, 0
ERR, 0 LOB
3rd inning Japan: at bat Suzuki: chop ground ball out to P-1B,
at bat Yokohama: single hit to CF = runner at 1B, at bat Ishimura: SAC bunt
pop fly out to Catcher, at bat Ono: (Yokohama stolen base), Ono: fly out at
LF, excellent catch by USA left fielrder; 0 RUNs, 1 HIT, 0 ERR, 1 LOB
4th inning USA: at bat LaLonde: single hit to LF = runner at 1B,
at bat Miljavac: groundball to P – force out at 2b = runner at 1B, at bat
Moraga: (Miljavac stolen base), Moraga: SAC fly out to LF = runner moved to
3B, at bat Delarwelle: pop fly out to 1B, 0 RUNs, 1 HITs, 0 ERR, 1 LOB
4th inning Japan: at bat Sakai: pop fly out at RF, at bat
Yamasaki: strike out, at bat Hazeyama: base on balls = runner at 1B, at bat
Tanaka: single hit to LF = runners at 1B+2B, at bat Nishimori: (runners
moved on wild pitch) runners at 2B+3B, Nishimori: strike out; 0 RUNs, 1 HIT,
0 ERR, 1 LOB
5th inning USA: at bat DeGroat:strike out, at bat Divine:
groundball out to 2B-1B, at bat Miller B: ground ball out to 2B-1B; 0 RUNs,
0 HITs, 0 ERR, 0 LOB
5th inning Japan: at bat Suzuki:groundball out to 2B-1B, at bat
Yokohama: running bunt to 3B = runner at 1B, at bat Ishimura:(Yokohama
caught stealing on 1 ball 1 strike), IShimura: single hit to CF = runner at
1B, at bat Ono: groundball out to 1B; 0 RUNs, 2 HITs, 0 ERR, 1 LOB
6th inning USA: at bat Cascaes: line drive out at 2B, at bat
Hunt: base on balls = runner at 1B, at bat LaLonde: pop fly out to 1B, at
bat Miljavac: line drive out to SS; 0 RUNs, 0 HITs, 0 ERR, 1 LOB
6th inning Japan: at bat Sakai: chop hit over 3rd baseman =
runner at 1B, at bat Yamasaki: chop hit over 1st baseman = runners at 1B+3B,
at bat Hazeyama: groundball to 2B = double palay force out at 2B and batter
out at 1B + 1RBI, at bat Tanaka: strike out; 1 RUN, 2 HITs, 0 ERR, 0 LOB
7th inning USA: at bat Moraga: hit by pitch = runner at 1B, at
bat Delarwelle: short groundball to 3B + throwing ERROR by 3B = runners at
1B+2B, at bat DeGroat:strike out, at bat Divine: ground ball to P = double
play P-SS-1B; 0 RUNs, 0 HITs, 1 ERR, 2 LOB, ballgame
Prague, Czech Republic June 21, 2007
Decos EHS upsets Denmark 10-7
In a very spectacular game which took more then 3 hours, the Decos EHS team beats their European rivals from Denmark. A very intense game where Decos EHS was always in command. Kiwi Michael Cameron was 3-3 with a double and 2 RBI’s. Rody Stam went 2-4 with a triple and 3 RBI’s. Gillis and Welsh shared the pitching duties and did a great job holding the Danish National Team to only 8 hits.
Other scores on the official website via www.demo-ehs.nl
Boxscore:
Denmark 0-0-1-1-3-0-2 = 7-8-2
Decos EHS 3-0-1-0-2-3-1 = 10-9-1
Pitching:
Denmark: Martin Holmberg (LP) 7-5-6 (5inn)
Jesper Panduro 2-0-1 (1inn)
Decos EHS: Doug Gillis (WP) 3-4-2 (4.3 inn)
Jared Welsh 4-2-5 (2.7 inn)
Norman Ames
Decos EHS Fastpitch, Haarlem, The Netherlands
E-mail: norman.ames@gielissen.nl
Homepage: www.demo-ehs.nl
ISF WORLD CUP – DAY 6
When USA lost to Venezuela in Friday late night game 5:6 and Japan beat
Venezuela on Saturday morning 7:5, first three team were tied. Runs against
rule ranked US team first, Japan second and Venezuela third for semifinals.
First semifinal went easy for Venezuela against Dutch selection Demo EHS. In
the bottom of third Accacio hit the triple followed by two homeruns and Doug
Gillis was replaced by Michael Cameron, however he cannot stop Venezuela
from hitting another homerun and finished the game in øth inning 8:0.
Evening game USA – Japan begun quietly with no runs in first two innings.
But in the top of third japan came with their great offensive weapon –
infiled hits and slaps combined with speed and scored 7 runs against Travis
Price. He was than replaced by Sonny Perkins but Japan continued in their
exhibition until score was 12:2 in the fith inning. Japanese pitchers
Murasato and Namagutchi allowed 4 hits (one homerun by Chris Miljavac in the
bottom of fifth
Sundays Finals:
14,00 USA – Venzuela
17,30 Japan – winner of previous game
For more info incl. play-by play and photos see official tournament website:
http://worldcup07.czechsoftball.com/
Pavel Prachar
Technical Commission
pracharpavel@gmail.com