[Alsfastball] Golden Horseshoe Fastball League season opener tonight

[Al Doran]

Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 16:04:27 -0400 (EDT)
From: BLAIR SETFORD <blairjs at rogers.com>
Subject: Golden Horseshoe Fastball League season opener tonight





Golden Horseshoe Fastball League
Southern Ontario

The first pitch in the 2005 season for the Golden Horseshoe Fastball League 
will be thrown tonight as the Waterdown Hammer take on the Waterdown 
Coyotes at Memorial Park in Waterdown.

The GHFL has expanded to 14 teams year, adding new teams in Niagara Falls 
and Waterdown.

With the addition of Chris Shewfelt, the Hamilton Hawks will be looking to 
defend their GHFL Playoff title in 2005 while ISC II ranked teams (#28) 
Niagara Snappers and (#30) Mississauga Arrows will be hard on their heels.

Niagara Falls Fury, with hard-throwing Scott Wagar, and perennial 
contenders St. Catharines Red Hot Chili Pepper, will be in contention, too.

The GHFL's Waterdown Hammer are travelling to Ohio for an early-season 
test. Last year, the Hammer defeated both the eventual ASA "A" and ASA "B" 
champions at the Elkland, PA tournament.

Up & coming team Waterdown Coyotes won two tournaments last year and will 
be looking to build on their success in 2005.

The GHFL will be split in two divisions of seven this year. Each team will 
play a home & home schedule within their division with a single game 
against the other division's teams for a 19-game schedule.

Tournaments run by GHFL affiliates include the highly touted Niagara 
Snapper Shootout June 3-5, featuring 8 of the top 30 teams from the ISC II 
Preseason Rankings; the 16-team Waterdown touranment June 10-12; and the 
annual Niagara Falls tournament August 5-7.

New GHFL member Smoke of Millgrove are running two tournaments this year: 
May 13-15 and Sep 30-Oct. 2 at their home park in Millgrove.

The GHFL Playoff tournament will be held Sept. 9-11 at Ker Park in Niagara 
Falls.

Ker Park will also play host to the GHFL All-Stars as they face the 
Australian Junior Men's team on Monday June 13 in a doubleheader. Plans are 
being finalized to have the games webcast through 
<http://www.ballparkradio.com>BallParkRadio.com. More details on this as we 
get closer to the event.

The GHFL is affiliating with the Ontario ISC II Home League program and 
will send a representative to the ISC II Ontario Cup tournament in 
Hillsburgh at the end of August.

Fastball fans can check out <http://www.ghfl.ca>www.ghfl.ca for schedules, 
scores and updates on the GHFL and much more.

Good luck to all teams and players for a successful 2005 season.

Cheers,

Blair Setford
Golden Horseshoe Fastball League
<http://www.ghfl.ca>www.ghfl.ca
mail to: <mailto:blairjs at rogers.com>blairjs at rogers.com







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