FW: Softball Canada Media Release / Communiqué de presse

[Al's Fastball News]

Junior Women's Pan American Championship III

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 
August 11, 2010 

Canada notches two more wins at Pan American Championship 

(Bogota, Colombia) The Canadian Junior Women's National Team
won their second game of the Pan American Championship in Bogota
yesterday with a convincing 9-3 win over the host country Colombia,
and then defeated Peru by a 12-0 run-rule score this morning.
Canada now has a 3-1 record, and will play a doubleheader on
Thursday against Mexico (noon EDT) and the United States (2:00pm
EDT) to end the preliminary round. 

Against Colombia, Canada banged out 17 hits and pitchers Shanna
Wilson (Peterborough, ON) and Karissa Hovinga (La Vista, Nebraska)
combined for a four-hitter including 15 strikeouts. 

Canada opened the scoring with two runs in the first as Jennifer
Gilbert (Mckinney, Texas) led the inning off with a triple to
left-centre field and scored on a Victoria Hayward (Mountain
View, California) slap single. Jacqueline Omichinski (Abbotsford,
BC) sacrificed Hayward to second and Hayward scored on a Katelyn
Bedwell (White Rock, BC) single to left field. Canada made it
5-0 in the third. With one out, Bedwell singled and advanced
to second on a groundout by Natasha Szlapetis (Brampton, ON).
Natalie Wideman (Mississauga, ON) then singled and Erika Polidori
(Brantford, ON) scored both runners with a double down the left
field line. Kristy Noble (Uxbridge, ON) followed with a run-scoring
single. 

With Canada up 5-0, Colombia mounted a rally with three runs
in the top of the fourth as they scored two with two singles
and a double, and scored their third on a throwing error. Canada
responded with four runs in the bottom of the inning as they
managed five consecutive hits with two outs. Bedwell singled
and scored on a Szlapetis double in the gap, Wideman singled,
and Szlapetis scored on Polidori's single to centre. Noble scored
two runners with a double off the fence. 

In the fifth, Canada loaded the bases with singles by Hayward
and Omichinski and an intentional walk to Bedwell but could not
drive in the winning run to win via the run-rule. 

Shanna Wilson picked up the win as she went five innings giving
up three runs on four hits and striking out 10. Karissa Hovinga
finished the game with five strikeouts in two innings of work.


Bedwell and Wideman led Canada with three hits each. Four players
added two hits as Polidori and Noble had three RBI's each, while
Gilbert and Hayward also notched a pair of hits. Shannon Davidson
(Whitby, ON), Omichinski and Szlapetis each chipped in with a
hit. 

Canada then continued its winning streak with a 12-0 win against
Peru. Jocelyn Cater (Delta, BC) struck out nine and held Peru
to just a one hit through four innings. 

Canada did all of its scoring in the bottom of the first with
a string of singles by Jennifer Gilbert, Victoria Hayward, Jacquie
Omichinski and Katelyn Bedwell. Four walks and four more singles
led to a twelve run first inning and that was all the team needed
to complete the game. Gilbert, Hayward, Omichinski and Bedwell
led the team offensively with two hits each. 

-SC- 

For more information, please contact: 

Gilles LeBlanc 
Manager - Marketing and Communications 
Softball Canada 
(613) 523-3386 ext. 3105 
gleblanc at softball.ca

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