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St. Thomas Fastball League 2005 Award Winners

Monday, November 14th, 2005

The St. Thomas and District Fastball League held it’s annual awards banquet on Saturday evening, November 12’th at the Shedden Keystone Complex.

Here are the 2005 award winners from the St. Thomas and District Fastball League.

Batting Awards
Average—–Gary Cooke, Shedden Mission—–.475
Homeruns—–Gary Cooke, Jason Dawdy, Jeff Wilcox, Shedden Mission—–6 each
RBI’s—–Jamie Wolf, Morpeth Magic—–23

Pitching Awards
Best ERA—–Dan Beecroft, Union Storm—–1.46
Most Valuable—–Dan Beecroft, Union Storm—–16 & 3 (.842)

Rookie—–Geoff Gunson, Highgate Rock

League MVPs—–Dan Beecroft, Union Storm, Todd Winkworth, Aylmer Cardinals

League and Playoff Champs—–Union Storm
Dan Beecroft, Dusty Brown, Mark Coleman, Ryan Cummings, Dave Ferguson, Aaron Gould, Brian Harvey, Tyler Lessard, Kevin Lynch, Chris Payne, Jamie Peat, Troy Rick, Chris Wismer coaches: Dan Denniss, Tom Edie

Playoff Finalists—–Glencoe Astros
Greg Eichenberger, John Fletcher, Rich Galbraith, John Gougoulias, Ed Gould, Greg Huston, Rob Ireland, Shane Johnson, Kyle Mitchell, Brett Neal, Ron Pazitka, Bill Piskorowski, Tim Stover, Chris Welch, Jamie Welch, Shaun Winship, Ryan Wolfe Coach: Chris Manchester

Playoff MVP—–Dan Beecroft, Union Storm

Memorial Awards

Elmer “Dude” Locke Memorial Award for “Sportsmanship and Dedication”—–Barry Luscombe, St. Thomas and Aylmer Umpire’s Association

Jeff Carder Memorial Award for “Enjoyment and Love of the Game”—–Mike Unwin, Shedden Mission

Steve Palmer Memorial Award for Excellence in Defensive Ability and Performance —–Rich Galbraith, Glencoe Astros

Lorne Thomson Memorial Award for Coach/Manager of the Year—–Matt Haskell, Blenheim Homerun Restaurant

Team MVPs
Alvinston Indians—–Doug Charlton
Aylmer Cardinals—–Todd Winkworth
Blenheim Homerun Restaurant—–Paul Ceppi
Glencoe Astros—–Shaun Winship
Highgate Rock—–Ben Blonde
Morpeth Magic—–Jeff Hope
Shedden Mission—–Gary Cooke
Union Storm—–Dan Beecroft

The players and coaches from the League that were members of the St. Thomas Evergreen Centennials, the 2005 Canadian Senior Men’s Champions were also recognized.

Dan Beecroft, Mark Coleman, Brian Harvey, Tyler Lessard, Chris Payne, Kevin Lynch, Troy Rick, Chris Wismer, Ryan Wolfe

Bill Horne, head coach/manager, Dan Denniss, coach, Tom Edie, coach

batgirl: Taylor Edie

Aaron Gould
Union Storm

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Joseph & Woolridge among those pitching in Dominican winter league

Wednesday, November 9th, 2005

Ontario ISC II pitchers Mike Joseph (incorrectly noted as an American) and Tracy Woolridge are among a dozen North American pitchers playing in the Dominican winter league.

Here’s a horrible translation of a story that appeared in a local Dominican paper and was posted on the Illinois Fastpitch board.

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ISC Rules Changes that impact ISC II

Friday, November 4th, 2005

In actions taken by the International Softball Congress Board of Directors when they met in August in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, several different areas of regulations were addressed. Among the changes were:

ISC AREA DEFINITIONS – – a new list is displayed on the ISC Web Site at http://www.iscfastpitch.com/webstart/forms/ardef.htm From the front page of the ISC Web Site, click on Rules & Form. States and Areas affected include: California; Nevada; Colorado; New Mexico; Arizona; Canada West; Minnesota; Wisconsin; Illinois; and Northern Illinois. Generally, the changes liberalize and expand areas. Area Definitions are the responsibility of the affected Area Commissioners. This same document will appear in the 2006 ISC Guide to be published in next spring.

ISC-II TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS ENTRY FEES – – Beginning in 2006, entry fees are: $250 for Area and Travel League Champions and $300 for Host Team, Defending Champ, Runner Up, and any invited teams.

PLAYER HARDSHIP REQUESTS – – Requests are to be sent to the appropriate ISC Area or Travel League Commissioner who will approve or disapprove before sending it on to the ISC Executive Director.

PARTICIPANTS OWING ISC, COMMISSIONERS, OR TEAM SPONSORS – – No one will be allowed to participate in ISC programs if they owe any money, equipment, or other property belonging to the ISC, its Commissioners, or Team Sponsors.

Gordon Wise – – – ISC Information Officer
www.iscfastpitch.com
sgwise(at)woh.rr.com

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2006 Snapper Shootout firming up – updated

Monday, October 31st, 2005

A very early look at who is, so far, apparently coming to the 2006 Snapper Shootout:

Niagara, ON Snappers – defending champions finished 5th at the 2005 ISC II ToC.

South Lebanon, PA TNT – 2nd at the Elkland Labour Day tourney, featuring pitcher Jeremy Tracy.

Mississauga, ON Arrows- 3rd in the GHFL in 2005, 2-2 at last year’s Shootout.

Alvinston, ON Indians – tied for 3rd at the ToC – 3-2 at last year’s Shootout.

Orrville, OH Orr Park Knights – merged with the NY Bombers, adding pitchers Chuck Smith and Justin Heyman.

Waterdown, ON Hammer – 2nd at the Elkland First Tournament, won the Waterdown league.

Niagara, ON Selects – 1-2 last year, but upset Tavistock, the Selects are looking to playing the ISC II qualifier, too.

Elmira, ON Cubs – 2005 ISC II Champions with ToC Top Pitcher and MVP Casey Halstead.

Perkasie, PA KMV Rise – disappointing ToC, but rebounded to win Elkland Labour Day tourney – were 2-2 last year.

Jarvis, ON Rock – perennial power in the Erie league with ace Dave “Farmer” Martin.

Harrisburg, PA PA Power – ASA “C” Champions.

Toronto, ON Champion Indians – 2005 Ontario Challenge Cup champions

Oswego, NY CPI (formerly McKie Sports) – 12th at ISC II ToC

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Happy Halloween

Monday, October 31st, 2005

Happy Halloween from Fastpitchwest & Ballparkradio. Keep an eye out for those little folks tonight.


Photo: Maddy’s award winning pumpkin carving. Any resemblance to the editor purely coincidental. (click to enlarge)

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New at GHFL.ca

Saturday, October 29th, 2005

New at GHFL.ca:

2006 ISC II Preview Page

Plant your Flag on GHFL.ca

Game 57 Photo Sequence

Cheers,

Blair

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Stake Your Flag at Fastpitchwest’s Readers Map

Wednesday, October 26th, 2005


Frappr is a new online mapping service which allows readers of Fastpitchwest.com to post a flag showing where they are, add a note (and photo if they wish). Just enter your name and zip and Google Maps does the rest !

Take a look, or better still, add yourself to our map.

Check out our Frappr!
Click here to view and/or add yourself to our map !

We strongly encourage you to post a photo; as you will see, it’s more fun to peruse the flags when photos are attached ! Feel free to use a photo of yourself posted at Fastpitchwest. The Frappr system will automatically resize the photo for you. Note that you can “zoom in” on any flag by using the grid on the left hand side of the page. (Zooming in will show you the city and surrounding area for the zip code entered)

Update: Thanks to those of you who have take the time to “plant your flag” on the map, and especially those posting photos (most have). If you decide you’d like to change your photo, or run into any problems, please email me (jim (at) fastpitchwest.com and I’ll delete you and you can do it again.

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Union, ON Storm looking for pitching help for AAU

Friday, October 21st, 2005

The Union, ON Storm is looking for a pitcher for the AAU tournament in Orlando, FL in January 2006. Click here for contact information. The tournament is played at Disney’s Wide World of Sports complex, one of the finest fastball facilities in the country. The fastball diamonds are adjacent to the Atlanta Braves spring training facility at the complex.

Last year’s tournament hosted a number of international teams, hailing from the Caribbean, Venezuela, Mexico, Canada and the U.S., 28 teams in all. For a complete recap of last year’s tournament, click here.

For a look at the five galleries of photos from last year’s tournament, click here.

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GHFL.ca Forum is back

Wednesday, October 19th, 2005

The popular GHFL.ca Forum is back online after an “interesting” diversion and a lesson in internet security, if nothing else.

In the next day or two, we will be upgrading the forum software to a more secure version provided by phpbb. This will NOT affect your registration, screen name(s) or password. Please note that at no time was your personal computer security at risk to a virus or spyware if you logged into the Forum during the past few days.

With the help of Jim Flanagan and phpbb, we have been able to recover all the posts up to October 8, so if you had something to say after that, please re-post it.

Thanks for your patience and welcome back!

Cheers,

Blair Setford
www.ghfl.ca

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Additional Photos at FastpitchWest

Monday, October 17th, 2005

More of Maddy Flanagan’s pictures from the 2005 ISC II Tournament of Champions can be found at FastPitchWest.com at by clicking here. Click menu buttons for galleries 7 & 8.

Ontario ISC II fans in particular will want to click here to see this one.

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GHFL.ca forum hacked

Monday, October 17th, 2005

Unfortunately, some loser who clearly has far too much time on his hands due to an inability to get a real job has hacked the ghfl.ca forum. I am working with Jim Flanagan to get the forum back online and, hopefully to recover all of the posts. We will keep you advised via Al’s Fastball List, The Deuce and other fastball boards when the ghfl.ca forum is back up and operating.
Cheers,
Blair Setford
www.ghfl.ca

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Get “The Deuce” Via Email

Saturday, October 15th, 2005

For those of you who like knowing when new posts go up at “The Deuce” blog, but don’t like to bother with checking back all the time, we have an easy, automated solution — Feed Blitz. In short, you just sign up to receive “The Deuce” via email.

For more info, click the “Feed Blitz” logo above, or the link over there at the upper right that says “Get “The Deuce” via Email”

p.s. if you do sign up, come back and post a comment here and let us know how it’s working and if you like the new feature.

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