Yakima, Washington – JRW & Associates took second place in the Yakima Fruit Bowl. JRW lost to the Lynden, WA Outlaws 9-4 in the Championship game. A tired Dave Drotzmann took the loss.

JRW was 1-2 in Sat pool play. Two losses by Shayne Arndt and the victory by Kurt Penner.

In Sunday single elimination, JRW beat Spokane Screaming Yak 9-2 in 5 innings – Drotzmann allowed 3 hits, but struck out 15 batters.

Then JRW beat Yakima Gamblers 11-1 to reach the final game — Four singles and a solo HR allowed by Kurt Penner.

JRW All-Stars were 1B/C Casey Johnson, 3B Jason Grow, SS Tim Roinestad and Outfielder Tim Fischer.

Tournament Details to follow

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New Rule Effective May 1, 2009, expected to expand to Int’l flights next year

Players and managers alike may have a new travel headache to contend with, thanks to the folks at the TSA. In short, if your boarding pass does not match your driver’s license – EXACTLY – the airline security folks (TSA) may not permit you to board that plane to that next tournament. A whole new layer of misery. Informal vs. formal name? (Dave/David, etc.) Drotz, I know you are reading this. Middle name on your driver’s license? Middle initial? No place for middle name or initial when using the online booking website? Arrrgh.

A saavy traveler explains:

I am just getting up to date with the new/upcoming TSA rules regarding “Secure Flight” (see links below) when TSA takes over the program from the airlines. Apparently, after May 1st, the name in a boarding pass needs to exactly match the name in the government issued ID (license or passport), including middle name. Date of birth and gender need to be added as well and I am sure those can be easily handled with the frequent flyer’s profile. Supposedly, a boarding pass will not be issued if the full name doesn’t match the ID or if it the booking hasn’t been approved by the new secure flight system that matches names with the no-fly list. This is data that will flow from airlines to DHS/TSA and just worries me that it may cause problems on last minute bookings and/or proper data transfer overall.

I have been reading and it seems unclear if they will accept just a matching first and last name or if a middle initial will be sufficient or if indeed a full name will be required.

Nevertheless, all these unanswered questions will be subject to interpretation by different airline agents in reservations or check in desk, TSA agents at security, travel agencies, etc etc. I guess TSA and airlines will come out with some clear rules.

But, are airlines ready for this? are they working on updating their reservation system to accept long middle names? how about the rush to change names on frequent flyer programs? are they ready for that too? It seems that TSA is causing a bigger problem, affecting the majority of flyers, to try to solve the problem of a small number of flyers that, unfortunately, are in the no-fly list by error.

Anybody from the airlines have an update on this? Or, as a frequent flyer, are you planning on adding your full middle name in all your frequent flyer programs?

More news coverage of the issue after the jump.

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Hello Teams , Managers , Players and fans , Just a friendly reminder that tomorrow Sunday May 17th is the deadline to enter this years 2009 Castro Concrete Jokers Athletic Club Men’s Fastpitch softball Tournament. I’m glad to say that The county contacted us of a cancellation at the old Del Valle Fields and we will now be using those fields. Yes the fields we used last year.The old park is more fan friendly PLENTY OF SHADE.So we are happy about that. The following is a list of Teams already committed. If your not one of them and would like to enter your team please contact ASAP.. John 512-775-5865

Host Teams: Austin Castro Concrete Jokers
Austin Castro Concrete Softball Club
Austin Bluejays
Austin Indians
Bryan/ College Station Longnecks
Denton Triple J Terminators
Houston (Apaches) Murray Electric
Houston Geo – Per
Houston Sportsman
Killeen Merchants
Manor Dirt Bags
Matamoros Mexico
Reynosa Mexico 100% Necio
San Antonio Compardes
San Antonio Glo Worm
San Antonio Titans

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“Your Friend In Softball”
John Limon
Texas ISC Commissioner
2005-2007
texasisc@gmail.com

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We wrote previously about former Vista Bomber, former Long Beach Nitehawk Steve Miner coaching the San Diego State University women’s team. If you’re near a TV set tonight at 2pm EDT, 5pm PDT, you can catch them on ESPN, taking on the defending National champions, Arizona State in a NCAA Regional Game. ASU will be no easy feat, but San Diego’s coming off a great season, giving UCLA a run for their money in two one run ballgames.

(SDSU coach, Steve Miner)

While mentioning ESPN, I guess I have to emphasize that this is not April 1 ! (“Ballparkradio Duo to ESPN Radio”. Belated apologies on that one)

Here’s the blurb from the official team website:

SDSU Softball’s Friday NCAA Regional Game at ASU to be Broadcast on ESPN Aztecs’ first NCAA game against defending national champion Arizona State to be shown on ESPN

May 14, 2009

TEMPE, Ariz. – San Diego State softball’s NCAA tournament game against defending national champion Arizona State on Friday will be broadcast live on ESPN, the network announced Thursday. The game, which is scheduled for 5 p.m. PT, will still be shown on ESPNU as well as ESPNHD and ESPN360.com.

The Aztecs (33-18), who are looking to advance to the NCAA Super Regionals for the first time in program history, and the 10th overall seed Sun Devils (40-16) will follow the LSU (32-16-1)-Cal State Fullerton (29-19) game, which will start at 2:30 p.m. (ESPNU).

The Aztecs were featured at Maddy’s Photos earlier this season, when we had the chance to see them play locally at Cal State Fullerton.