Day 3 of Softball Canada's Senior Men's National Team Selection Camp

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Received: 5/23/06 3:01:32 PM 
From:  "Rick Picard" <rpicard(at)softball.ca> 
 
Subject:  Day 3 of Softball Canada's Senior Men's National Team
Selection Camp  
  

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE         

May 23, 2006

 

Day 3 of Softball Canada's Senior Men's National Team Selection
Camp

 

(Kitchener, ON) - Softball Canada closed their Senior Men's Evaluation
Camp on Sunday May 21st, 2006 with one final inter-squad game
at Peter Hallman Ball Yard in Kitchener, Ontario.  Cold temperatures
and high winds limited the day's activities to only one six inning
inter-squad game.

 

While hitting was the force of Friday and Saturday, pitching
took center stage on Sunday.  The pitchers dueled to a 1-1 tie
as the game was called following the 6th inning due to weather.

 

The White team scored their run early as Bill Simmons (Smithville,
ON) led off the bottom of the 1st inning with an infield single
and eventually came around to score on a sacrifice fly by Jody
Eidt (Mitchell, ON).  

 

The Grey Team replied in the top of the 3rd inning when Trevor
Johnstone (Sicamous, BC) led off with a triple. Scott Newitt
(Delta, BC) followed with a sacrifice fly to drive in Johnstone.
 Newitt was robbed of a hit in his next trip to the plate as
shortstop Ian Fehrman (Townsend, ON) made a nice diving stab
at his hard line drive.

 

Eidt and Fehrman each singled to round out the hits for the White
Team. 

 

Keith Mackintosh (Saskatoon, SK) led the Grey Team with two singles.
Chris Shewfelt (St. Catherines, ON) had the remaining Grey Team
hit, a single in the 4th inning.

 

Gerald Muizelaar (Shubenacadie, NS) and Sean Whitten (Maddox
Cove, NL) each took to the circle for the Grey Team, combining
to strike out 8 batters while Rick Smith (Duncan, BC) and Andrew
Phibbs (Jarvis, ON) got the call for the White Team. Smith struck
out 5 in his three innings of work and Phibbs pitched three scoreless
innings to finish up the cause.

 

The Senior Men's National Team Coaching staff will come together
again at the International Softball Congress Championships in
early August to finalize their evaluations and string together
a final roster. These players will then compete at the VII Pan
American Championships in Hermosillo, Mexico from September 29th
to October 9th.

 



For more information, please contact:

 

Rick Picard
Director, Marketing and Communications
Softball Canada
rpicard(at)softball.ca
(613) 523-3386 ext. 3105
 

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