Portland Rose Cup – Saturday Scores

June 20th, 2009

Thanks to Tom Ree for phoning in these scores:

2009 Rose Cup
June 20/21 – Delta Park
ISC & ISC II Qualifier

Teams:
Midwest Stampede – Bondurant, IA
Vancouver Grey Sox – Vancouver, B.C.
Columbia River Rockers – Portland, OR
Innovative Communications – Salt Lake City, Utah

Saturday June 20th

Game 1 – 8:30am
Vancouver Grey Sox – 7
Columbia River Rockers – 0

WP-Travis Price
LP-Rick Smith
HR-Scott Newitt (VGS)

Game 2 – 8:30am
Midwest Stampede – 20 (twenty)
Innovative Communications – 0

WP-Tony Peeples
LP-Chadwick
HR-King and Bohman (MS)

Game 3
Vancouver Grey Sox – 3
Innovative Communications – 2

WP-Brand
LP-Chadwick

Game 4
Midwest Stampede – 8
Columbia River Rockers – 0

WP-Sean Whitten
LP-Dave Drotzmann
(ever notice how many times these two pitchers face each other?

Game 5
Columbia River Rockers – 9
Innovative Communications – 1

WP-Rick Smith
LP-Chadwick

Game 6
ISC # 6 ranked Midwest Stampede – 10
ISC # 7 ranked Vancouver Grey Sox – 3

WP-Gerald Muizelaar
LP-Ryan Brand
HR-Travis Wilson (MS)
Game was scoreless after 4, Tied 2-2 when Price left game for Vancouver. Midwest won the game scoring 8 runs in the final two innings. (correcting yesterday’s report showing Price as the LP)

Innerkip ISC II Qualifer – Complete Saturday Scoreboard

June 20th, 2009

Innerkip ISC II Qualifer – Complete Saturday Scoreboard over at The Deuce.

(Games still underway at 8:30pm EDT)

Portland Classic – Saturday Scores

June 20th, 2009

Thanks to Tom Ree for phoning in these scores:

2009 Portland Classic
June 21/22 – Delta Park
B/C Division

Teams:

Group A
Cleon’s Auto – Seattle, WA
Pirates – Portland, OR
JRW & Associates – Yakima, WA

Group B
S/O Bandits – Medford, OR
R.C. Merchants – Portland, OR
Yakima Gamblers – Yakima, WA

Saturday June 20th Scores

Game 1
Cleons – 4
JRW – 3

WP-Divish
LP-n/a

Game 2
Yakima Gamblers – 7
Rose City Merchants – 0

WP-Mark Suna
LP-Labbe

Game 3
Grants Pass Bandits 9
Rose CityMerchants – 2

WP-Mark Durben
LP-Tom Smith

Game 4
Portland Pirates -1 8
Cleon’s Auto – 1

WP-Soule
LP-Tungsvic

Game 5
JRW – 7
Portland Pirates – 3

WP-Jason Light
LP-Westcott

Game 6
Gamblers – 3
Grants Pass OR Bandits -1

WP-Robinson
LP-Mike Trotter

Game 7
JRW – 12
Rose City Merchants – 1

WP-Billy Woods
LP-Jim Miles

Game 8
Grants Pass OR Bandits – 10
Cleon’s Auto – 2

WP-Durben
LP-Sanders

Game 9
Gamblers 4
Portland Pirates 3

WP-n/a
LP-n/a

Lehigh Valley Softball Hall of Fame inducts five

June 20th, 2009

By Keith Groller | OF THE MORNING CALL

After back-to-back postponements, the skies cleared and some local softball stars came out to shine Friday night at Pates Park as the Lehigh Valley Softball Hall of Fame held its ninth induction ceremony.

The five new inductees include Dave Bilger, Dale Culton, Lisa ”Noisy” Sommer, Sally Whittaker-Kahan and Brent Windsor.

With their induction, the hall of fame now has 49 members.

Here’s a look at each inductee:

Dave Bilger began pitching at age 11 in the Allentown Church League and began pitching in the Allentown City League at age 16.

Bilger won the City League title three times with the Allentown Patriots and was a member of seven title teams overall. He was also a member of three Pates state title teams.

In addition to the Pates, he pitched for several other local teams and squads from outside the Lehigh Valley.

He was the winner of the Brey Brennan Award, saluting him as the outstanding City League player of the year.

When his playing days were over, Bilger served as Salisbury High’s pitching coach for six seasons and also gave pitching and hitting lessons to high school players from throughout the Lehigh Valley.

Dale Culton has made his mark as a player, manager, umpire and innovator for the last 45 years.

He was a starter on some of the Allentown Patriots’ outstanding men’s teams from 1965-1971, helping them win five state championships and finish third and fifth in national tournaments. He helped the team win five state championships, playing on the same powerful roster that included local legends such as hall of famers Ty Stofflet, Dale Miller, Art Weida, Dick Bingel and Jack Ohl, among others.

From 1975-1995, he was a player-manager for teams such as Crest Sporting Goods, Wessner Beverages and The Brass Rail, all teams that won Allentown City titles.

In 1996, after 31 years as a player and manager, he became a men’s and women’s fastpitch umpire.

Later, he became involved with umpire safety, inventing his own protective gear. He attained trademarks and patents for several new-concept chest protectors, shin guards and compression shorts. His gear is worn by thousands of umpires worldwide.
Windsor made his mark as one of the area’s finest men’s fastpitch pitchers for more than two decades and also as one of the area’s top girls softball’s assistant coaches.

As a player, Windsor pitched for 23 years, finishing in 1995. He was one of the game’s best in that era, pitching for the Federation of Eagles Club, the Algemeiner Club, the Catholic War Vets, the Patriot Kings, Patriot Aces, Crest Sporting Goods, Wessner Beverages, The Brass Rail, Faust Auto and All Seasons.

Brent Windsor was also an assistant coach for 17 years, seven at Allen with hall of fame coach Ed Stinner and then another 10 at Parkland with Glen Ray, who is also a previous hall of fame selection.

At Allen, he was a member of the staff that won the 1990 state title. At Parkland, he was a member of state title staffs in 1995 and ’98. He was also influential as a youth coach, working with the state championship Renegades program led by hall of fame coach Terri Adams, as well as the Allentown Stars and The Extreme.

keith.groller@mcall.com, 610-820-6740

Ken Vierling on the move

June 20th, 2009

Ken Vierling on the move.

Details at “The Deuce”

ISC II Qualifier at Innerkip

June 20th, 2009

ISC II commish Blair Setford is on site at Innerkip, sending scores and game details from his Blackberry. We’re posting them at our brother blog, “The Deuce”.

Click here
and scroll down the page for results thus far.

Maritime Fastball League makes return to capital

June 20th, 2009

From The Guardian

Fawcetts host Fredericton, Brookfield this weekend
The Guardian

After eight years, the Maritime Fastball League makes its return to Charlottetown this weekend with six games.

The Hunter’s Ale House Fawcetts will host the Fredericton Fastpitch Club and the Brookfield Elks today and Sunday at City Diamond.

The Fawcetts recently completed their successful exhibition games with a 4-1-2 record.
They are hoping the league and selected tournaments will help them prepare for the 2009 national senior men’s fastpitch championship in St. Thomas, Ont.

Mike Bishop and Mitch Hardy will be toeing the rubber for the Fawcetts this weekend.
Both pitchers were dominant throughout the exhibition schedule.

Hot-hitting Chris Craig and Steven Larter will look to jump start the sluggish Fawcetts offence against some of the Maritime’s best pitching.

“The fans should expect low scoring tight ball games,” said the Fawcetts’ Mark Arsenault.
The Fawcetts will host team for the 2010 nationals.

This weekend’s schedule:

Today – 1 p.m., Fawcetts vs. Fredericton; 3 p.m., Fredericton vs. Brookfield; 5 p.m., Fawcetts vs. Brookfield.
Sunday – 10 a.m., Fawcetts vs. Fredericton; 12 p.m., Fredericton vs. Brookfield; 2 p.m., Fawcetts vs. Brookfield.

Player’s Eye View – NorCal Travel League – Stockton

June 19th, 2009

Here is another edition of “Player’s Eye View” , from our friend Kevin Nishinaga, writing about the recent Northern California travel league weekend. It’s a personal diary of sorts, so should be read in that context. Nonetheless, I thought players and fans would enjoy it.

Here’s an excerpt:

Game 2 for Saturday was against taylor farms, the team that won the best of the west tourney two weeks ago. They scored 8 in the top of the first, on two homeruns, two balls off the fence, another hit or two, and one error. I had a swinging bunt single to lead off our half of the first, but got thrown out trying to steal second. I think everybody but the umpire thought I was safe. I think the ump didn’t get a good look because the area around second was sooo powdery that when I hit the dirt there was huge dust cloud. I got a faceful of dirt like I’ve never had before. I made a few plays at short, but also mishandled a slow roller for an error that turned into a run. Later in the game I twice faced a pitcher who tried out for team USA this year. That guy threw really hard and I struck out the first time, grounded to third the second time. We lost 11-3, and I later found out that at least three of the guys they had there play for team USA — Stephen Pinocchio, Nate Devine, and Chase Turner? (http://www.usasoftball.com/folders.asp?uid=4604). I think in the one game our pitcher gave up 3 homeruns and at least 5 balls that either hit the fence or one-hopped it. And the fences there are pretty deep, ~300 ft. I was 1 for 3 in game 2.

Click here for the entire post.

Editor’s note: Kevin, add Marcus Tan to that list of Team USA players on the California A’s. They will be playing at the ISC World Tournament in August. No shortage of talent on that club.

Thanks also to Kevin for some additional scores, for his “Fat City” team:

Fat City 9, Rude Pac 5
Taylor Farms 11, Fat City 3
Rockers 8, Fat City 0

Fat City 12, Rez Dawgs 5
Fat City 10, Funky Monkey 3
Fat City 10, Nielsen Gamblers 8

Fat City competed against “B” teams on Saturday and wound up winning the “C” division.

Click here for our earlier post with other Stockton scores, for the California A’s Taylor Farms team.

Click here for our earlier edition of “Player’s Eye View” of the Best of the West tournament in Santa Barbara.

Editor’s note: We invite others who blog or write about their fastpitch experiences to submit material for “Player’s Eye View”. Send to jim (at) fastpitchwest (dot) com.

Aramark captures first-half title

June 19th, 2009


(click logo for original news story)

June 18, 2009 by YH-R Sports

YAKIMA, Wash. — Carl Apts’ suicide squeeze bunt in the bottom of the 10th inning brought home Jason Schiebner with the winning run as the Aramark Monsters edged JRW & Associates 3-2 at Gateway Complex on Wednesday night to capture the Yakima Adult Men’s Fastpitch first-half title.

Dave Drotzmann, last year’s International Softball Congress Division II MVP while pitching for a California team that won the national championship, struck out 16 for JRW & Associates. Aramark finished the first half with an 8-2 record to 7-3 for JRW.

JRW 000 002 000 0 — 2 7 1
Aramark 010 010 000 1 — 3 2 2

Dave Drotzman and Grow; Sam Karr, Mark Seward (6) and Root.
Highlights: Drotzman (JRW) 91/3 IP, 16 K, 2 BB; Tim Fischer (JRW) 4-5, 3 3b; Karr (A) 52/3 IP, 4 H, 9 K, 0 BB, 1 ER; Seward (A) 32/3 IP, 3 H, 0 R.

June 16 ISC Rankings – Kitchener still the 1

June 18th, 2009

Rank Team Name

1 Kitchener Rivershark Twins

2 Broken Bow Patsy’s
3 Aspen Interiors
4 The Farm
5 Jarvis Gamblers
6 Midwest Stampede
7 Vancouver Grey Sox
8 Allbaugh, Inc
9 Midland Explorers
10 St. Thomas Centennials
11 Dominican Republic
12 Pueblo Bandits
13 NY Gremlins
14 Dolan & Murphy
15 Kegel Black Knights
16 Owen Sound
17 Quad City Sox
18 Bar of Appleton
19 Saskatoon D’Backs
20 California A’s
21 Bar of Green Bay
22 Thomson Merchants
23 Ashland Mets
24 Winterset A’s