Brandon Pizza Ranch of Brandon, South Dakota won the all South Dakota ASA 12-and-over National tournament:
Place M/R Team Name Hometown Record
1st Brandon Pizza Ranch Brandon, SD 3-0
2nd Sioux Falls Dairy Queen Sioux Falls, SD 2-2
3rd Stooges Sioux Falls, SD 1-2
4th Get N’ Go Sioux Falls, SD 0-3
From Brandon, South Dakota-
Place M/R Team Name Hometown Record
1st Northwest Royals Northwestern, MO 3-0
2nd Junkers Mankato, MN 2-2
3rd Young’s Primetime sports Watertown, SD 1-2
4th Brandon Dairy Queen Brandon, SD 0-3
Young Bucks go 5-1 to win 23 and under at NAFA, Larry Watts, Jr. MVP
Game 1 Herda&Sons Mn 7 Young Bucks 5
Game 2 Young Bucks 3 East Coast All Stars 0
Game 3 Young Bucks 7 PA Power 0
Game 4 Young Bucks 9 Midwest AllStars 2
Game 5 Young Bucks 6 Weggies Mn 5
Game 6 Young Bucks 9 East Coast All Stars 2
MVP
Larry Watts, Jr., Young Bucks
All World Team:
Guido Silbert
Danyl Dondero
Joel Lange
More details when the stats come out on the NAFA website.
Thanks to Clyde Bennett for this report.
Order of Finish
Team Location W L
1 PA Power Ephrata, Pa 5 – 0
2 PK Broward Royalton, Ill 5 – 2
3 McDermott’s Baltimore, Mary 5 – 2
4 Crow Bar Sioux Falls, SD 4 – 2
5 Topeka Toros Topeka, Kan 5 – 2
DC Current Bremen, Ind 4 – 2
7 UBS Pirates Minneapolis, Minn 4 – 2
Pickseed Explorers Balcarres, Sask 3 – 2
9 Young’s Primetime Sports Watertown, SD 3 – 2
Cleon’s Auto Tacoma, Wash 2 – 2
Sawdust City Eau Claire, Wisc 2 – 2
Up to Date Painting Millington, Mich 2 – 2
13 Red Dog Juda, Wisc 3 – 2
Creative DJ’s Aurora, Ill 2 – 2
Herzog St. Joseph, Mo 2 – 2
Lee’s Sports Falcons Radom, Ill 2 – 2
17 Harper/Stadium Duluth, Minn 2 – 2
Jonny’s Saloon St. Charles, Minn 2 – 2
Imaging Solutions Fargo, ND 1 – 2
John’s Plumbing Cortland, Neb 1 – 2
Junker’s Bar and Grill North Mankato, Minn 1 – 2
Ormrod Fastpitch Ormrod, Pa 1 – 2
Wabash Valley Wabash, Ind 1 – 2
Wanderoos Amery, Wisc 1 – 2
25 Border League A’s Hills, Minn 1 – 2
Young Bucks Santa Barbara, Cal 0 – 2
Brecka’s Orangemen Rice Lake, Wisc 0 – 3
Goshen Gators Goshen, Ind 0 – 3
Kasson State Theatre Kasson, Minn 0 – 3
Scarletts Sioux Falls, SD 0 – 3
Order of Finish
Team Location W – L
1 Kegel Black Knights Fargo, ND 6 – 1
2 The Bar of Appleton 23s Appleton, Wisc 4 – 2
3 Wilber Lime Galesville, Wisc 3 – 2
4 New Image Monfort, Wisc 2 – 2
5 River City Rockers Sacramento, Cal 4 – 2
Rude-Pac Sun Valley, Cal 3 – 2
7 Earl’s Club Kenosha, Wisc 3 – 2
Herda & Sons Waverly, Minn 2 – 2
9 Brandt’s Springfield, Mo 2 – 2
Sioux Falls Sox Sioux Falls, SD 2 – 2
11 Pickseed Explorers Balcarres, Sask 0 – 3
Priority Mortgage Grand Rapids, Mich 0 – 3
RBC Lightning Rice Creek, Mich 0 – 3
The Bar of Appleton Athletics Appleton, Wisc 0 – 3
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Be sure to scroll down to see a young(er) Todd Martin picking up the Outstanding Pitcher’s Trophy to go with the ISC World Title that his team, the Smokers, won in 1998.
Ten years later, he is standing in front of the same scoreboard at Sunset Park in Kimberly, Wisconsin, once again, winning the Outstanding Pitcher’s trophy to go with an ISC World Title, this time with the Kitchener Rivershark Twins. Two titles, two outstanding pitcher awards, ten years apart. Remarkable.
The Rockers Dave Drotzmann threw a complete game no-hitter for the win. He had 12 strikeouts. The Rockers Mario Pereira led the game off with a walk and scored on a single by Rob Penticoff. In the 2nd innining, Kary Moore got things started with a 2-out hit. Mario knocked him in. Mike Abernathy hit a triple to drive in the 3rd run. Rusty Newnan led the 6th off with a base on balls and scored the final run. Rob Penticoff and Kary Moore were both 2 for 3 at the plate. Next up for the Rockers, 3-1 is Herda & Son’s from Waverly, Minnesota. If they win, they advance to Championship Sunday with a shot at the crown.
Dean Holoien, of Aspen Interiors of Saskatoon, Canada hits a grand slam home run against defending champions, The Farm Tavern of Madison Wisconsin at the 2008 ISC World Tournament at Kimberly, Wisconsin, August 15, 2008.
The grand slam came in the bottom of the 5th inning, with Aspen trailing 2-1, and catapulted Aspen into today’s winner’s bracket final against Kitchener. Scoring ahead of Holoien is the pinch runner for Keith Mackintosh, Ron Head, Carl Crawford and Dale Levy.
(Video by Jim Flanagan)
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Here is a look at the Aspen 5th in that game:
Aspen Interiors 6th – Hale B to lf. Mackintosh K singled. Crawford C walked; Mackintosh K advanced to second. Head R pinch ran for Mackintosh K. Lawton M pinch ran for Crawford C. / for Lawton M. Levy D walked; Lawton M advanced to second; Head R advanced to third. Holoien D homered, 4 RBI; Levy D scored; Lawton M scored; Head R scored. Mackintosh P struck out. Ethier T grounded out to 2b. O’Brien S flied
out to lf. 4 runs, 2 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
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The Kitchener Rivershark Twins rallied from behind, down 3-0 late in the game, for a 6-3 win over Aspen Interiors of Saskatoon, Canada, to claim the 2008 ISC World Tournament title. A home run by Ryan Wolfe of Kitchener tied the game, while another by Jody Eidt against reliever Trevor Ethier in the 7th put Kitchener on top to stay, 5-3.
More details to follow.
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O Canada !
Aspen Interiors rebounded from their tough 10-9 winner’s bracket final loss to the Kitchener Rivershark Twins, to defeat the defending champions, The Farm Tavern in the loser’s bracket final. Aspen advances to the championship game in a rematch of perhaps the tournament’s most exciting game.
The final marks the first time ever that two Canadian teams will meet in the championship game.