First Annual Ontario All-Star Challenge

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Received: 6/1/06 7:50:10 PM 
From:  BLAIR SETFORD <blairjs(at)rogers.com> 
 
Subject:  First Annual Ontario All-Star Challenge  
 

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South Perth and Golden Horseshoe Fastball League All-Stars Teams
to
Meet in First Annual Ontario All-Star Challenge


Kitchener (June 1, 2006) – For years in the beer gardens at tournaments
and more recently on internet chat forums, the question always
gets asked: Which league has the best players?


The first annual Ontario All-Star Challenge will help answer
that question as the best of the local South Perth Men’s Fastball
League will take on the Golden Horseshoe Fastball League (GHFL)
in an all-star game this August. 


The game, to be played at 9 pm on Thursday August 10 at Hallman
Park, will be a prelude to the International Softball Congress
(ISC) World Tournament which starts the following evening and
the ISC II Tournament of Champions that kicks off that Sunday.


“We’ve been saying that we’ve got the best league in Ontario
for a long time and now we’re going to put that to the test,”
said South Perth league president George Nahrgang, whose 18-team
league stretches from Harriston to Mitchell to Tavistock, and
boasts the winners of the last three ISC II tournaments 


“We’re really looking forward to the opportunity and I think
we’re going to surprise some people,” countered Blair Setford,
president of the 11-team GHFL, which includes teams in Mississauga,
Hamilton-Waterdown and the Niagara region. 


Setford approached Nahrgang with the idea for the game over the
winter. “It’s something that all ball players talk about when
they get together and, with the ISC Worlds in Kitchener the next
two years, this is the perfect showcase for the All-Star Challenge.”


“This is a great opportunity for fastball fans to come out and
get a taste of the action that they’re going to see during the
third week of August,” said host committee chairman Tom Clancy.



Both leagues count several senior ball players on various team
rosters, along with many more top-notch intermediate players,
so the game will undoubtedly be hotly contested – particularly
with the added incentive of a to-be-determined wager between
the two leagues.


“I’m sure we’ll come up with something besides just bragging
rights,” said Nahrgang. “This isn’t a grudge match yet, but it
really does have the potential to develop into a good rivalry,”
added Setford.


Some of the South Perth players expected to take part in the
game include Don Scott and Dale Levy of the Kitchener Hallman
Twins, the host team for the ISC World Tournament, along with
Jim, Jodie & Jay Schnarr of the Bridgeport PROforma Braves, who
are the host team for the ISC II Tournament of Champions – the
intermediate division of the ISC.


Among those that may be representing the GHFL are Scott Wagar,
who led his Jarvis team to 4th at last year’s Canadian Senior
Nationals, Byron Demoe, of the Niagara Snappers, who tied for
5th at last year’s ISC II championship, and Jeff Wilson, who
has won four junior national championships in a row and is graduating
to senior ball this year.


Admission to the park will be free for the game, which will be
preceded by a game at 7 pm featuring the Czech Republic National
Team and the Danish club team that are competing in the ISC World
Tournament. The game will also be broadcast over the internet
on streaming audio through www.ballparkradio.com.


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For further information, please contact:
Blair Setford
Golden Horseshoe Fastball League
1.800.268.9374 ext. 8803
blairjs(at)rogers.com
www.ghfl.ca


or 


George Nahrgang
South Perth Men’s Fastball League
519.595.2609
judge(at)cyg.net
www.kwfastball.com/southperth.htm
 

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