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Kitchener, Broken Bow, and Patsy’s came away winners on opening night, while the host Orillia Riversharks won a pair at the World Series of Fastball Friday night.
Vancouver, Jarvis, Aspen and Pueblo suffered opening night losses, while Midland dropped a couple of close ones, to the # 2 and # 3 ranked teams in the world, Patsy’s and Broken Bow.
Al Doran is in attendance and posting scores and updates regularly via his Blackberry. Click here to follow all the action at Orillia at Al’s World Series of Fastball page.
Play resumes Saturday morning at 8:30 a.m. with a full slate of games on tap. The final game of the day is set to begin at 8:45pm, with the playoff round starting on Sunday morning at 9:00am.
The tournament features a “Candian” division and an “American” division, with five teams in each.
The feature matchups of the day on Saturday will be ISC World # 2 vs. # 3, Patsy’s vs. Broken Bow in the American division at 2:30pm, and # 1 Orillia Riversharks vs. # 4 Kitchener Hallman Twins, in the Canadian division at 6:45pm in the evening. All game times are EST, adjust accordingly.