[Alsfastball] China shuts down Canada on Day 3 of Olympic Competition

[Al Doran]

From: "Lisette Johnson-Stapley" <lstapley at softball.ca>
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Subject: China shuts down Canada on Day 3 of Olympic Competition
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 05:50:51 -0400
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Monday August 16, 2004



China shuts down Canada on Day 3 of Olympic Competition



(Ottawa, ON)  Canada lost to China 4-2 this morning at the 2004 Olympic 
Summer Games in Athens, Greece.  Canada was leading the game until the top 
of the 6th when China stoll what was going to be a great victory for Canada.



"We came out strong, ready to play and focused," stated first base and 
Olympic Veteran Erin White.  "However, things went wrong and everything 
started to happen.  We are just focusing on getting ready for the next game."



After a tough loss to the Greeks last night, Canada was determined and put 
themselves on the score board first in this morning's game.  Canada went up 
2-0 in the 4th inning.  Rachel Schill was hit by a pitch, Angela Lichty 
singled and Alison Bradley singled to load the bases.  Jackie Lance then 
hit a sacrifice fly to drive in Schill for Canada's first run.  Erin 
Cumpstone then stepped up to the plate and hit a suicide squeeze (runner at 
3rd and bunted) to score Lichty.    Everything was going great for Team 
Canada until the top of the 6th inning when Canada made an error which cost 
them the tying and winning runs.  China made it on base on a ground ball to 
short and was safe because of an overthrow to first base which scored runs 
tying the game 2-2.  China also made a suicide squeeze and put themselves 
in the lead 3-2.  China then singled but the strong wind took the ball and 
dropped in the middle of third and short and both third base Cindy Eadie 
and short stop Angela Lichty were not able to catch the ball and China 
scored their fourth run.  After the 4th run, Auburn Sigurdson went to the 
mound to shut the door.



The losing Pitcher was Canada's Lauren Bay who pitched 6 innings, gave up 4 
runs on 4 hits, 3 strikeouts and gave up 4 walks.  Canada's Auburn 
Sigurdson faced 5 batters and had 2 strikeouts.



BOX SCORE

Teams

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

R

H

E

China

0

0

0

0

0

4

0

4

4

0

Canada

0

0

0

2

0

0

0

2

4

2



Canada will play Japan tomorrow (Tuesday) at 5:00am ET.  Japan is the 
defending Olympic Silver Medallist.



Team Canada's profiles and stats as well as previous Olympic results and 
photos can be viewed on the Softball Canada website at 
<http://www.softball.ca>www.softball.ca.  For more information, please 
contact Lisette Johnson-Stapley, Marketing & Communications Director, 
Softball Canada at 613-795-1996 (Cel.) or 
<mailto:lstapley at softball.ca>lstapley at softball.ca or 613-523-3386 ext. 3105.



*Please note that TSN is scheduled to broadcast the game this game this 
evening.





TEAM CANADA – Olympic Roster



Pitchers

Ani Nyhus, Surrey, BC

Lauren Bay, Trail, BC

Kaila Holtz, North Vancouver, BC

Auburn Sigurdson, Surrey, BC



Catchers

Kim Sarrazin, St-Eustache, PQ

Erin Cumpstone, Saskatoon, SK



Infielders

Sheena Lawrick, Calgary, AB

Kristy Odamura, Richmond, BC

Cindy Eadie, Brantford, ON

Angela Lichty, Guelph, ON

Erin White, Richmond, BC



Outfielders

Sasha Olson, Valemount, BC

Alison Bradley, Pinkerton, ON

Rachel Schill, Kitchener, ON

Jackie Lance, Delta, BC





Team Staff

Mike Renney, Head Coach

Glenn Boles, Assistant Coach

Patrick Murphy, Assistant Coach

Noreen Murphy, Assistant Coach

Gil Read, Team Leader

Laurie Freebairn, Physiotherapist


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