Pickerel River Cardinals

Wed Jul 8 11:30:33 EDT 2009

Received: 7/8/09 9:25:02 AM 
From:  "roger legendre" <er_legendre at sympatico.ca> 

                                            ATHLETICS IN A WINNING
MOOD

   The onfield problems of the Pickerel River Cardinals  continued
in the Rick McDonald Memorial Fastball League last evening .
For the second straight time in as many days the Athletics defeated
the Cardinals and this time in a more convincing fashion by the
score of 8 to 3 . The Athletics are fast climbing the league
standings and one more win could volt them into third place ahead
of the Hounds and the North Stars . This was by far veteran Pat
Sr Brennan's best outing of the season as he grabbed his second
mound victory both against the slumping first place Cardinals
. Pickerel did not help their cause with six costly fielding
errors and poor hitting which has plagued them for the last three
games . Jonathan Contin with the help of reliever Alex Ashawasagai
was tagged with his third loss of the season .Both Jonathan and
Alex combin to give up 13 hits , issued six base on balls and
struck out 5 batters . On the other hand Pat gave up but four
hits , issued one single walk and fanned seven batters. New rookie
Eric Legendre had a fine evening for himself as he went 3 for
4 at the dish including a double , two runs batted in , two runs
scored and one stolen base . Teamate J.P. Miron chipped in with
a 2 for 4 at bat (double) while Jeff Ashawasagai hit 1 for 2
in a losing cause for the Cardinals.

      Play resumes Thursday night at the Lorne Brady Memorial
Park in Garson when the 2-6-1 Athletics will attempt to escape
the league cellar when they confront the 3-4-0 Dog House Sportsbar
for the first time this season at 7 PM . In the nightcap scheduled
for 9 PM under the lights  it will be a battle of the titans
when the league co-leaders at 6-3-0 tangle . It will be the slumping
Pickerel River Cardinals taking on the surging Parry Island Hawks
..

       Three league teams : the Parry Island Hawks , the Pickerel
River Cardinals and the J.C. North Stars will be taking part
in the 24 team annual Hunstville Men's Fastball tournament this
coming weekend. Some 51 games will be played starting Friday
evening till the three division championships of Sunday afternoon
at 3 PM .. As always , it promises to be an excellent tournament
with teams from all over .. Parry Island has its first action
Friday night at 7 PM while the North Stars and the Cardinals
don't see their first game of round robin play till Saturday
morning.I'll be travelling to Hunstville early Saturday morning
to cover the tournament and should have results from all three
of our teams as well as other tournament results and details.

         For the Northern Ontario Championships up coming in
late August there are a couple of changes to note:

   New title for the tournament  :

                                  NORTHERN ONTARIO OPEN FASTBALL
CHAMPIONCHIPS FOR LADIES AND MEN

   When? :  August 21st to 23rd in Azilda at the Rick McDonald
Memorial Park

  Important dates : 
                                  The deadline for entry is August
the 14th   (money and team roster
                                   A non refundable amount of
 $100 must be in no later than August the 5th

   Entry fee is always as usual  $380

   Format depending on the final number of teams will be either:

                               A]  Pools  round robin play with
two semi finals and a championship final    or
                               B]  Bracket style double knockout
 championship (still 3 games guarenteed for both situatuons)

   Strong outside interest at the moment which should make this
4th annual tournament the largest ever
                   We have good interest from Val Gagne Hawks
men's team some 40 miles north of Timmins , Ottawa Blitz from
Ottawa Men's Fastball League , 2 to 3 teams from Manitoulin Men's
Fastball league , 2 to 3 teams from NortnShore League , interest
from North Bay Senior Men's League, all of our 5 league teams
; in ladies we've got strong interest from the formation of two
Sudbury teams with a good possibility of the formation a minor
midget select team , the Mudheads from Thunderbay , the Stallions
from Brantford , two Manitoulin teams and one North Bay entry
. I'll be working on getting other teams while I'm in Huntsville
this weekend. We could be looking at between 12 to 14 men's teams
and 5 to 6 ladies' teams which would be our best tournament ever-
that would be fantastic!
                     Look for our league The Rick McDonald Memorial
Fastball League official web site by the end of next week or
early the following week .Things are looking up and good for
fastball in Greater Sudbury and Northern Ontario.

                                  Have a nice week! See you on
the ball fields!

                              Yours in fastball,

                               Roger Legendre

                               League umpire and statistitian

                               Public Relations Liaison/Advisor
for

                               Greater Sudbury Minor Girls Softball/Fastpitch
League &

                               Pick McDonald Memorial Fastball
League 

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