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2005 Laverne Reichert Memorial ISC II Ontario Challenge Cup Scores

Saturday, August 27th, 2005

2005 Laverne Reichert Memorial ISC II Ontario Challenge Cup
Hillsburgh, Ontario

Winner of this 16-team double knockout tournament will receive a berth in the 2006 ISC II Tournament of Champions.

Friday night games
Jarvis Rock 5 Owen Sound Crunch 4
Kingston Cowboys 3 Mitchell Mets 0
Toronto Indians 9 Minesing Monarchs 3
Hamilton Hawks 3 Breslau Majors 1
Orangeville Resolve Kings 5 Elora Rage 3
Salford Storm over Blenheim Home Run
Kitchener Phoenix Outlaws 5 Hillsburgh Stallions 3
Niagara Snappers 7 Rockwood Drexler Construction 1

Saturday morning 8 am games
Breslau Majors 3 Owen Sound Crunch 2 – Crunch eliminated
Mitchell Mets 3 Minesing Monarchs 1 – Monarchs eliminated
Kitchener Phoenix Outlaws 6 Niagara Snappers 4 – 2-run walk-off HR

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16 Teams at Elkland “First Weekend” Tournament

Friday, August 26th, 2005


UPDATE: Oswego, NY McKie Sports won the Elkland First Weekend Tournament, defeating Waterdown, ON Hammer in the final. Elkland was third, PA Power 4th and Ashland 5th.

Elkland, PA- With 16 teams ready to do battle, The 2005 12th Annual Elkland “First Weekend” Tournament will begin tonight at 6:30, with Morgan and Margraff taking on Keeneyville. Here are the 16 teams that will be participating this weekend in Elkland:

1. Elkland Fastpitch Team, Elkland, PA (27-6 record in ’05, 7th place finish at NAFA A-Major)
2. Ashland Merchants, Ashland, Ohio- 9th Place finish at ISC II World Tournament
3. Ricola Coughdrops, Morris Plains, NJ- 2004 3rd Place finish in the NAFA A-Major Div.
4. McKies Sports, Oswego, NY- 2004 ASA Class A National Champions
5. Harmonia Club, Williamsport, PA
6. Beverage Barn, Williamsport, PA
7. R/R Tents, Williamsport, PA
8. PT Awards, Williamsport, PA
9. Keenyville Fastpitch, Keeneyville, PA (8-14 record in 2005)
10. Morgan and Margraff, Elkland, PA (8-11 record in 2005)
11. Kreider and Flick, 2004 ASA Class B National Champions
12. Northern Merchants, Poland, NY(2004 Team Record 17-12)
13. Marysville VFW, Marysville, PA (Two Time ASA Class C PA State Champions)
14. PA Power, Pennsylvania (Attended 2005 NAFA A-Major World Series)
15. Big Johns, Lackawanna, NY (2003 NSA World Series Champions)
16. Waterdown Hammer(2004 Team Record 41-29-3)

Game results from the tournament will be reported early next week on. Thanks,

Bruce Hackett
ESA Website Admin.

brucehackett61@hotmail.com

http://www.eteamz.active.com/elklandsoftball


Editor’s note: Will we see any of these teams at the ISC II Tournament of Champions in Kitchener in 2006? Mc Kie’s Sports, Oswego, NY and Ashland, OH were there in 2005. To the rest, we say “come and compete!”.

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All 2005 Broadcast Archives Now Available through Ballparkradio.com

Thursday, August 25th, 2005


To all fastball fans:

The archives for the 2005 ISC II Tournament of Champions played at Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin are now available via Ballparkradio/Sportjuice. The 2005 Archive consists of 26 games.

For easy access:

* Go to Ballparkradio, http://www.ballparkradio.com
* Click the ISC II Tournament of Champions logo at the top of the main page;
* Once you get to the ISC II Sportsjuice page, hold down the Control Key (to avoid your pop-up blockers, if you use them) click on the green rectangle near the top right that says: archives
* From the drop down menu, choose the game you want to listen to and play.

Please Note: In all Sportsjuice archives, you can now scroll through the timeline of the game by clicking, holding, and dragging the slider bar to listen to whatever portion of the game you want. This is different from previous years’ archives, where Sportsjuice games
could only be heard linearly, from start to finish.

The ISC II scoreboard, with links to the box scores and play-by-play is a great companion while you’re listening. It enables you to jump around (fast forward or go backwards) during the broadcast to find a particular hit or play.

For those who have inquired, we will be making audio CD’s of the games available for purchase. Watch The Deuce Blog at Fastpitchwest.com (www.fastpitchwest.com/thedeuce) or Al’s Fastball for further announcements.

The ISC II broadcast crew sends out a big thank you to all who tuned into the broadcasts. We thoroughly enjoyed the hundreds of emails received from members of the listening audience, which topped 8,000 in terms of hits on the game links, and we appreciate the kind words and encouragement. All of us are looking forward to even bigger and better things in 2006 in Kitchener, ON.

Cheers,
The ISC II Broadcast Crew
Blair Setford, Jim Flanagan ,
Joe Todd, Brett Bresnahan,
Lance Winn and Chris Bach

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Editor’s Note re: Al’s Fastball Archives

Thursday, August 25th, 2005

As a member of Al Doran’s Mailing List and daily reader of his Escribe archive, I was sorry to hear of the continuing problem in trying to restore service. [See Note from Al in story below] Al did a remarkable job at the ISC Word tournament, getting scores, boxes, play-by-play and more posted promptly to the ISC website, www.iscfastpitch.com. However, I think we all missed our daily dose from Al in the old familiar Escribe format for the mailing list archive. It was especially unfortunate that the crash took place during the ISC World Tournament.

Fastpitchwest.com has provided a temporary home for Al’s archives, and will continue to do so as long as necessary. We ask only that you bear with the fact that our archive page is a bit less user friendly than the old Escribe page. As Al noted:

“For now we are not calling it the TEMP site, its our only site at the moment.”

The biggest complaint about the archive page that we are hosting is that the newest items are at the bottom instead of the top of the page, requiring readers to scroll to the bottom to see the latest news. I have the same complaint myself. Unfortunately, the software that we use at present to generate the archive page for Al’s does not permit me to change that format. (Control-End keys together will take you quickly to the bottom of the page on most browsers)

While Al looks at his options, we are researching software that would archive the emails in a format similar to Escribe. In the meantime, we have shortend the URL to eliminate the “.htm” at the end, to simplify things, to just:

http://www.fastpitchwest.com/alsfastball

Please pass this web address/URL along to your friends so they can find Al’s Archive. You can bookmark it by clicking the link and then Control D.

—
Jim Flanagan
Editor, Fastpitchwest.com
Co-editor, “The Deuce” Blog

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Message from Al Doran re: Al’s Fastball Archives

Thursday, August 25th, 2005

We pass along the following note from Al Doran regarding the recent problems the Escribe site that had been hosting his mailing list:

eScribe is down and maybe out, maybe for good.

eScribe went down over a week ago, just as the ISC’s were getting underway. This is not the first time they have crashed and been down for more than a few hours. In June 2004 they went down and were down for weeks while the owner bought and set up all new servers.

eScribe is privately owned, my company has nothing to do with it. Al’s Fastball is just one of hundreds of list servers that make use of the services provided by eScribe. This service has always been free.

Last year in June we learned that the owner, Scott Paterson, was working with a couple of unpaid volunteers to keep eScribe going. He had to buy expensive computer equipment to replace the servers that had worn out and died.

This week we learned that they major technical problems and the prognosis is not good.

See Scott’s note to me today:

Al

Dead power supply and lack of financial support and non-paid volunteers. Going to try to fix it myself as soon as I have time, but really, with no end-user financial support, it’s most likely done for.
-Scott

This does not sound good.
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2005 Laverne Reichert Memorial ISC II Ontario Challenge Cup

Sunday, August 21st, 2005

Here is the schedule for the first round games of the 2005 Laverne Reichert Memorial ISC II Ontario Challenge Cup to be held in Hillsburgh, Ontario (with a big assist from Rockwood.)

Game 1 Owen Sound Crunch vs Jarvis Rock 9:00 pm at Rockwood (Rockmosa)
Game 2 Hamilton Hawks vs Breslau Majors 7:00 pm at Rockwood (Lloyd Dyer)
Game 3 Mitchell Mets vs Kingston Cowboys 9:00 pm at Hillsburgh (Victoria Park)
Game 4 Toronto Champion Indians vs Minesing Monarchs 9:00 pm at Hillsburgh (Barbour Field)
Game 5 Orangeville Resolve Kings vs Elora Rage 7:00 pm at Hillsburgh (Victoria Park)
Game 6 Blenheim HomeRun vs Salford Storm 9:00 pm at Rockwood (Lloyd Dyer)
Game 7 Hillsburgh Stallions vs Kitchener Phoenix Outlaws 7:00 pm at Hillsburgh (Barbour Field)
Game 8 Niagara Snappers vs Rockwood 7:00 pm at Rockwood (Rockmosa)

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FRIDAY SCHEDULE – UPDATED

Friday, August 19th, 2005

8 am D1 Ottawa vs Black Gold – broadcast on ballparkradio.com channel 1 – tied 1-1 in 5th – Costello in to pitch
8 am D2 Niagara vs Ashland – resumed in B3 – broadcast on ballparkradio.com channel 2 – Niagara 6 ashland 4
8 am D3 Tavistock vs Elmira – Elmira leading 3-0
8 am D4 Harriston vs Port Elgin – Port Elgin wins 3-1

9:30 am D2 Niagara vs Alvinston – broadcast on ballparkradio.com channel 2

11:30 am Winner of Ottawa-Black Gold to play Port Elgin on D1 – broadcast on ballparkradio.com channel 1
11:30 am Winner of Alvinston-Niagara to play winner of Tavistock-Elmira on D2 – broadcast on ballparkradio.com channel 2

2 pm Championship game on D1 – broadcast on ballparkradio.com channel 1

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11 am and noon games on Thursday

Thursday, August 18th, 2005

Harriston rocking Reasnor with back-to-back home runs on first two batters in T1 to take a 2-0 lead… Port Elgin still up 1-0 in 4th over CT Lumberjacks…

3-0 for Harriston in B3 … 1-0 for Port Elgin going into T7 …

Update: Circle Tap rallied for one run in the bottom of the 7th to tie the game at 1. Into the 8th we go….

Update: Port Elgin has scored 3 runs in the top of the 8th, lead 4-1, Scott Bordelini on in relief of Dave Miller…

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Second round playoff games underway – broadcast schedule and some tidbits

Thursday, August 18th, 2005

Two alternate channel broadcasts today – at 3 pm eastern Bridgeport vs Elmira and at 5 pm eastern Niagara vs Ashland.

Tune in to ballparkradio.com and click on the “Channel Two” link for those games.

On channel 1, right now is Port Elgin vs Circle Tap Lumberjacks – PE is up 1-0 through 3.5 innings.

At 2 pm eastern is Tavistock vs McKie’s Sports.

At 4 pm eastern is Alvinston vs Fisher Group

At 5 pm eastern is Ottawa vs Black Gold in a quarter final game

At 7 pm easter is another quarter final with winner of Tavistock/McKie’s vs winner of Bridgeport/Elmira.

Had Corey Costello on the radar gun at 76 mph this morning and Eric Steinbeck of Black Gold at 73 mph. Bradley also hit 73 mph. Dan Konkle was 72 the other night and Shane Bouman was 72 as well.

Harriston will be the visiting team in their game vs Reasnor RPMs – about to get underway 15 minutes early on D2.

Passed at the board of directors meeting yesterday was a motion to provide a provisional berth in the following year’s ISC WT for the ISC II division.

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Playoff Broadcasts at 5:45 and 8pm CST Tonight!

Wednesday, August 17th, 2005

5:45pm Coburg, ON vs. Memphis Posse
8pm Colorado Rage vs Mc Kie Sports

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Day 4 at ToC – Day 2 of games

Monday, August 15th, 2005

Few extra innings games today … Colorado Rage & Fisher Group go 12 before Rage win 4-3 … Memphis Posse beat Regina C21 Angels 7-6 in 10 and Ottawa won 5-4 over ASB Villard in 8 innings … What happened to Snappers’ bats – 7 hits in two games and only two runs – both on HRs by Scott Young… Darren Young looked good for Wichita in beating Snaps 2-1 … Eric Steinbeck strikes out 13 as Black Gold wins 2-1 with run in B7 to beat Bar of Appleton … Lloydminster and Gladstone struggling at 0-2 and 1-2 respectively… Alvinston upsets Palermo 6-2 … Cobourg 2-0 … Elmira 2-0 … McKie’s rebounds to win 2, now 2-1 … Harriston beats JRW 3-1… Earl’s club gets HR to win 5-3 over Richwrap … Port Elgin scores 1 in B7 to beat Wilber Lime 5-4 … Dan Martin looks very impressive in ISC II debut winning in relief of Matt Hamilton beating last year’s NAFA AA champs … Bridgeport rebounds with a win …

once again, absolutely terrific weather today in CFalls …

broadcasts tomorrow (all times central):
Black Gold vs Snappers at 3 pm
Tavistock vs Lloydminster at 5 pm
Ottawa vs Sioux Falls at 7 pm
Rise vs CT Lumberjacks at 9 pm

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Monday’s Niagara Snappers game on BallParkRadio.com

Monday, August 15th, 2005

BallParkRadio.com’s Blair Setford will be covering Monday’s 3:00 pm central (4:00 pm eastern) game featuring Niagara, ON Snappers vs Wichita, KS Athletic Club live from Casper Park in Chippewa Falls, WI.

Please click http://www.sportsjuice.com/providers2/index.php?tname=ballparkradio to listen to the game.

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