[Alsfastball] OCDFL Regular Season Awards

[Al Doran]

From: "Mal Swift" <malswift at rogers.com>
To: "Al Doran" <fastball at pmihrm.com>
Subject: OCDFL Regular Season Awards
Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 21:45:42 -0500



Oshawa., ON

The Oshawa City and District Fastball League Regular Season Awards were 
presented last Wednesday night before the first final game in the OCDFL at 
Dieppe Park between the Cobourg Diamond Kings and the Toronto Champion Indians.

This years Most Valuable  Pitcher, for the second year in a row, was Todd 
Martin of  Aurora Shoeless Joe's as he posted an ERA of 0.35 and had 165 
strikeouts to go along with his 10 - 1 win/loss record. Todd only allowed 4 
earned runs  in 11 games.

The Top Batter Award for 2005 was Nick Dambrosio of Stouffville's Jones 
Pools Juniors, who finished the year with a .533 batting average.

The final player award for the League Most Valuable Player was presented to 
Rino Dambrosio, Nick's older brother, as he had a batting average of .524, 
7 home runs , 35 runs batted in and a slugging percentage of 1.127. Rino 
also played for Aurora Shoeless Joe's.


Periodically, the Oshawa City and District Fastball League presents a 
special award to recognize outstanding
contributions to softball in Oshawa.  The award was developed by Buddy Yahn 
and his father in honour of his
mother Iris Yahn.  The award is presented by a member of the Yahn family 
and this year the League  asked
Iris Yahn's daughter-in-law Mrs. Helen Yahn, to make the presentation.

This year's recipient started his softball career at Sunnyside Park in 
Oshawa where he soon developed into an
accomplished hitter and pitcher.  During his playing years he was on teams 
who won All-Ontario championships from
Minor to Intermediate "A" Men.  In the mid 70's he began his coaching 
career as a player/coach for Foley's Sr. B team.
In 1984, he moved to Casey's and the following year he joined the Oshawa 
Blues and took them into the Ontario
Fastball League, the first Fastpitch Travel League in the province.  For 9 
of the next 10 years he could be found
behind the bench of Oshawa Double B Sports Club Junior Men's teams.  He 
coached his Double B teams to an All-Ontario Championship; was runner up 
twice and he was also able to take his team to participate in the Canadian 
Junior Championships in Prince George B.C. in 1995.  During this time he 
passed on his passion for the game to several of his players. Many players 
influenced by this man have gone on to our Canadian and International 
Softball Congress Championship teams and remain involved in the sport at 
the highest level and in this league to this day."

The Oshawa City and District Fastball League was pleased to present the 
2005 Iris Yahn Memorial Award for
Outstanding Contribution to Softball to Mr. "Buddy" Yahn.  Congratulations 
Buddy!

Congratulations go out to all the OCDFL Award winners for 2005.

Mal


Mal Swift <mailto:malswift at rogers.com>malswift at rogers.com
Oshawa City and District Fastball League - Vice President - Media 
and   Promotion - <http://www.ocdsa.ca>www.ocdsa.ca
Durham Region Umpire Membership - Vice President
SpinMaster Pitching/Catching School - Head Instructor
Coach - Durham Jack's Fillin'  Station Eagles - OCDFL
Assistant Coach - Durham College Women's Varsity Fastball Team - OCAA
International Softball Congress II (Intermediate Men) - Game 
Controller/Awards Committee

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