TidBits - January 2006 - ISC Travel League of Eastern Canada version

[Al Doran]

TidBits - January 2006 - ISC Travel League of Eastern Canada version


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ISC Travel League of Eastern Canada – Tid Bits from January 2006 AGM


TidBits heard around the Coffee Machine at Grand Valley Golf Course near 
Kitchener this morning. With many Ontario teams in attendance, lots of 
updates and rumours. Bottom line, looks like a good year for Fastball in 
Ontario in 2006!

Five of the seven teams from the League in 2005 are returning this year. 
Norwich and Six Nations will not be back in 2006 – however Six Nations 
hopes to return to the League in 2007.

The returning teams from 2005 are:
Palermo Athletics
Kitchener Hallman Twins
Innerkip Bright Cheese House Eagles
Jarvis Merchants
Niagara Snappers

Joining the League for 2006 are two new teams:
Ohsweken Redmen
Orillia Riversharks

The teams will each play 24 games in an interlocking schedule that will 
include at least one weekend of play in June.

The new team from Orillia Ontario hopes to play up to 8 games against their 
fellow league teams on June 9-11. This is not finalized yet but the league 
hopes to get in 16 games over the weekend in Orillia, using the same park 
where the annual Casino Rama tournament is held. This will not be a 
tournament however should provide fans in the area more than a glimpse of 
the talent on the seven teams in the ISC Travel League of Eastern Canada. 
While Orillia hope to play up to 8 games that weekend, the other teams will 
be playing 3-5 games each. Many of the other teams will still be looking 
forward to playing each of the teams at home in the schedule.  The final 
schedule will be released after the next league meeting on March 12.

The ISC Area Qualifier is going to be played in Innerkip the weekend of 
June 16-17 (Friday and Saturday). An ISC II eastern qualifier will be held 
in Innerkip the same weekend, and an ISC II western qualifier will be 
played in Fitzroy Harbour the same weekend.

The League Playoff will be played the weekend of July 28-30, location TBA. 
Hosts wishing to bid on this tournament will bring their bids to the March 
12 meeting.

All of the teams at the AGM were strongly represented this morning, 
bringing in their delegates to make a bid to get into the league and to 
discuss the schedules for the season.

So, everyone is asking, “Who are the Orillia Riversharks”, well the best 
way to answer that is to give the names I jotted down while Manager Denny 
Bruckert was refreshing his coffee. Here we go (with apologies for spelling 
errors, I cannot copy as fast as I once could):

PLAYER PERSONNEL:
Frank Cox – P
Robbie O’Brien – P
Michael White – P
Sean O’Brien – C
Pat Graham – 1b
Todd Moyer – 1b/DH
Rhys Casley – 2b
David Boys – SS
Pat McKintosh – 3b
Dereck Jackman – infield
Ian Fehrman – OF
Mike Taylor – OF
Andy Jackson – OF
Stacy McLean – OF
Dan Loney – OF
And a look for a few more names to be added.

MANAGEMENT:
Robert Nydick – President / Chair of the Board / Sponsor
Dennis Bruckert – Field Manager / Director of Player Recruitment
Julian Fernandez – 1st base coach / Catcher
Peter J. Porcelli, Jr. – strategic planning
Lee Jacques - Coach
Paul Barnetson – Vice President / Sponsor / Board of Directors


As noted above, the full league schedule will be finalized at the next 
League meeting on March 12. At that time we also hope to find out what 
tournaments each of the teams in the League will be playing in, in addition 
to the Area Qualifier and the League Playoffs.

My own informal straw poll of the teams present indicated a very low 
interest in participation in the 2006 Canadian Championships in Prince 
George at the end of the season, citing the distance to travel. Most of the 
teams indicated a strong interest in gearing up for 2007 when the Canadians 
will be held in St. John’s NL, a perennial favorite with ball players. This 
year, the one team present that seemed interested in going to Prince George 
was the Jarvis Merchants. Also expected to go are the defending champions 
from St. Thomas Ontario, the Centennial Evergreens. Lack of interest in the 
Canadians may result in a similar lack of interest in the provincial 
eliminations – which have not been announced as yet. (August 4-7 but 
location TBA).

Several of those in attendance, including players and umpires, noted that 
the quality of the ball this year in Orlando at the AAU tournament was 
great, and the weather could not have been better.  A couple of the ball 
players are hoping to go to Hawaii in February for the Bob Rapp Memorial 
Tournament.

The excitement is also building towards the 2006 ISC World Tournament being 
held in Kitchener starting August 11. We can expect that all ISC level 
teams in the Travel League will be doing their best to qualify for the 
world tournament being held in their own back yard.

Watch for a lot of ball action in 2006 out of Ontario.





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