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Media Release<br>
For immediate release<br>
June 30 / 2004<br><br>
2004 Canadian Masters Fastball Championship Update.<br><br>
( Cobourg, Ont. ) The newly formed Canadian Masters Fastball
Association<br>
have been working in overdrive gear making preparations for their
inaugural<br>
Canadian Masters<br>
Fastball Championship. The tournament is really starting to take shape
from<br>
designing our own logo<br>
to bringing on a Western Canadian Representative and appointing a
tournament<br>
convener.<br><br>
The Canadian Masters Fastball Championship is not affiliated with
Softball<br>
Canada but the tournament will have all the bells and whistles and glitz
and<br>
glamour of a true<br>
Canadian Championship.We will have Gold medals and jackets for the
Canadian<br>
Champions and Silver<br>
and Bronze medals for 2nd and 3rd place teams. We will have the
usual<br>
souvenir t-shirts, hats<br>
etc. for sale and a photographer will be on hand to take team
photos.<br>
We will have 1st and 2nd Team All - Canadian awards.<br><br>
Cobourg Legion Fields was the host site of the Canadian Masters
Championship<br>
back in the late 90's. Harry Jeschke and his merry crew did a
fantastic job<br>
hosting the tournament<br>
and Harry is famous for keeping the diamonds in pristine
condition.<br><br>
We will be using the official rules of Softball Canada for the most part.
We<br>
will need to tweak some of the rules regarding age eligibility etc.<br>
Ontario, Softball Canada and the Eastern<br>
Canadian's all have different age rules so we strived to even the
playing<br>
field to attract teams from every province.<br><br>
Pitchers and players must be a minimum of 40 years of age in the year of
the<br>
event ( as per Softball Canada ) however ALL teams will be allowed 5
"<br>
UNDERAGE " players between the age of<br>
35 - 39. Thirty-five year old players must be 35 as of Jan. 1st
2004. These<br>
underage players can not<br>
pitch. For non-Ontario teams that use 40 year old players exclusively
they<br>
will be permitted to pick - up<br>
a maximum of 5 underage players from anywhere within their own province.
All<br>
teams will have to register and<br>
compete in their own provincial tournament to be eligible for the
2004<br>
Canadian Masters Fastball Championship.<br>
We may offer all-star status to teams wishing to come that don't have
a<br>
provincial tournament to compete in.<br>
We will be offering a men's division only for 2004 but would be more
then<br>
happy to accept women's teams in 2005.<br><br>
There will be 5 berths available for each province so in theory any
team<br>
competing in their own provincial tournament<br>
is eligible to play in the 2004 Canadian Masters Fastball
Championship.<br><br>
We have revised our tournament date by dropping Thursday and<br>
kicking things off on the Friday. The official date is Friday Sep.
3rd.<br>
through Sunday Sep 5th. with Monday Sep. 6th set aside for rain out make
up<br>
games.<br><br>
Stay tuned for our next press release to be issued on or about Monday
July<br>
5th. In our next press release we will be naming our Western rep.
and<br>
tournament<br>
convener and we will also be announcing 3 automatic berths.<br>
We will also announce the tournament format and entry fee.<br><br>
Softball Canada has been in contact with us and we have asked for
their<br>
guidance and support for our pilot project.<br>
We are striving to do everything Softball Canada does since they do<br>
everything on such a grand scale.<br><br>
In summary, we want to host the 2004 Canadian Masters Fastball
Championship<br>
with enough flexibility to accommodate every province but most
important<br>
is the fact we want this tournament to have the look and feel of a
Canadian<br>
Championship.<br><br>
Canadian Masters Fastball Association Executive<br><br>
Wayne Wells - President<br>
wwells39@cogeco.ca<br><br>
Dave Birnie - Vice President<br>
ranger11@idirect.com<br><br>
Alex Rutherford - Treasurer<br>
rutherfordfinancial@bellnet.ca<br><br>
Sylvia Ryan - Secretary<br>
sylvia.ryan@rogers.com<br><br>
<br>
Dave Birnie<br>
Vice President<br>
Canadian Masters Fastball Association<br>
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