USA Softball announces roster for 2007 USA Softball Men's National Team

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Received: 5/30/07 3:55:41 PM 
From:  "Brian McCall" <bmccall(at)softball.org> 

 
Subject:  USA Softball announces roster for 2007 USA Softball
Men's National Team  
  

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For Immediate Release
May 30, 2007

USA Softball announces rosterfor 2007 USA Softball Men’s National
Team

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. --- The Amateur SoftballAssociation, the
National Governing Body of Softball in the United States andUSA
Softball announced today the 18-man roster for the 2007 USA SoftballMen’s
National Team that will compete in the ISF World Cup, June 16-25
inPrague, Czech Republic and the first-ever KFC American Challenge
Series, July 13-15in Oklahoma City.

The KFC American Challenge Series, which will beheld in conjunction
with the KFC World Cup of Softball, was developed by theASA to
help expose the men’s fast pitch game to fans who attend the
WorldCup and to give the USA Men’s National Team an opportunity
to play onAmerican soil. This will be the first time an International
Softball Federation(ISF) men’s fast pitch event has been hosted
in the U.S. in more than a decade. Thelast event held in the
U.S.was the 1996 ISF Men’s World Championship in Midland, Mich.

“We are very excited to be hosting the inaugural KFC American
ChallengeSeries in Oklahoma Citythis summer,” said Radigonda.
“This is a very unique opportunityfor softball fans to get to
see both their national teams play in one location.Men’s fast
pitch is a very exciting sport to watch and I have no doubtfans
are going to be treated to some great action.”

The players selected to represent the United Statesthis season
as part of the 2007 USA Softball Men’s National Team are:

Gregg Cascaes (Apple Valley, Minn.)
Frank DeGroat, Jr. (Ringwood N.J.) 
Chris DeLarwelle (Appleton Wis.) 
Nate Devine (Merced, Calif.)
Lucas Goring (St. Paul, Minn.)
B.J. Hunhoff (Harrisburg, S.D.)
Chris Hunt (Whittier, Calif.)
Tim Hunt (La Habra, Calif.)
Adam LaLonde (Kentwood, Mich.) 
Terry Luster (Bunceton, Mo.) 
Chris Miljavac (St. Joseph Mo.)
Blake Miller (Albany, Ga.)
Daryn Miller (Creve Coeur, IL)
Omar Moraga (Tucson, Ariz.)
Matt Palazzo (Des Moines, Iowa)
Philip Perkins (St. Michaels Ariz.) 
Travis Price (Santa Ana, Calif.)
Cody Thomson (Auburn, Wyo.) 

The 2007 USA Softball Men’s National Team will be coached by
Head CoachPeter Turner and Assistant Coaches Thad Brown and Avon
Meacham. 

About ASA 

The Amateur Softball Association, founded in 1933, is the National
GoverningBody of softball in the United States and a member of
the United StatesOlympic Committee. The ASA has become one of
the nation’s largest sportsorganizations and now sanctions competition
in every state through a network of84 local associations. The
ASA has grown from a few hundred teams in the earlydays to over
240,000 teams today, representing a membership of more than threemillion.
For more information on the ASA, visit www.asasoftball.com. 

About USASoftball 

USA Softball is the brand created, operated and owned by the
ASA that links theUSA Men’s, Women’s, Junior Boys’ and Junior
Girls’National Team programs together. USA Softball is responsible
for training,equipping and promoting these four National Teams
to compete in internationaland domestic competitions. The USA
Softball Women’s National Team is oneof the only two women’s
sports involved in the Olympic movement tocapture three consecutive
gold medals at the Olympic Games since 1996. The U.S.women have
also won eight World Championship titles including the last sixconsecutive.
For more information about USA Softball, please visitwww.usasoftball.com

 

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