By Blair Setford & Jim Flanagan

ISC II Day Five Highlights

The Sweet 16 was narrowed down to the Final Four in ISC II on Thursday night as Corey Costello entered the record book for most strikeouts in a tournament … Costello came into his quarter-final game tied with Jonas Mach of the Thomson, IL Area Merchants at 85, erasing the old record of 80 … after striking out the first batter of the game, the ball was removed from play and Costello eventually pushed the record to 98 and counting as he struck out 13 as the Micksburg, ON Twins defeated Ashland, OH Merchants 2-0 … Gord Scott of Palermo, ON Athletics scattered three hits and struck out nine in a 1-0 win over South Lebanon, PA TNT to reach the semi’s … Perkasie, PA Rise reached the semi’s with a 3-1 win over Kitchener, ON Phoenix Outlaws … Rise pitcher Ben Blonde allowed only two hits to get the win … Ryan Cummings picked up two wins on the day for Tavistock, ON Merchants, tossing a no-hitter (his second of the tournament) at Elora, ON Wellington Brewers in second round action before knocking out Port Elgin, ON Blue Devils on a one-hitter (also his second of the tournament) in the quarters … Earlier in the day, Port Elgin’s Scott Christie tossed a complete game gem to knock out the host Bridgeport, ON PROforma Braves … Jeremy Tracy had a monster home run and pick up the win for TNT over Harriston, ON Mercury’s … Tim Dubois has the game-winning RBI in the 9th as Kitchener knocked out the fan-favourite California Lumberkings … Brad Pender keys a Micksburg rally from down four against Alvinston to win 5-4 … Highlight of the day: Trailing 5-0 into the sixth, Palermo rally for 8(!) runs against the defending champions Elmira, ON Cubs … Gord Scott re-enters the game after reliever Chad Reed pinched a nerve in his shoulder and strikes out the final batter with the bases loaded to preserve the 8-5 win.

Scores

Second round

Perkasie, PA Rise 8 Reading, PA Bob Hoffman’s Garage 1 – 6 innings

Kitchener, ON Phoenix Outlaws 2 Bakersfield, CA California Lumberkings 1 – 9 innings

Tavistock, ON Merchants 3 Elora, ON Wellington Brewers 0

Palermo, ON Athletics 8 Elmira, ON Cubs 5

Port Elgin, ON Blue Devils 5 Bridgeport, ON PROforma Braves 2

South Lebanon, PA TNT 4 Harriston, ON Mercury’s 3 – 8 innings

Ashland, ON Merchants 5 Mitchell, ON Mets 2

Micksburg, ON Twins 5 Alvinston, ON Indians 4

Quarter finals

Rise 3 Kitchener 1

Tavistock 2 Port Elgin 0

Palermo 1 South Lebanon 0

Micksburg 2 Ashland 0

Today (Friday)

Peter Hallman Ball Yard

Diamond 2 9 am Rise vs Tavistock – www.ballparkradio.com

Diamond 2 11 am Micksburg vs Palermo – www.ballparkradio.com

Diamond 1 5 pm – ISC II Championship Game – www.ballparkradio.com

By Blair Setford & Jim Flanagan

For the first time ever, a tie-breaker was held for the ISC II Tournament of Champions and Reading, PA Bob Hoffman’s Garage, lead by Scott Emerich and Art Devoe defeated the Toronto, ON Champion Indians 6-1 to secure the third and final wild card spot in the 24-team single-elimination playoff bracket … not to be outdone, Devoe and Bob Hoffman’s went on to defeat Denver, CO Colorado Rage 1-0 in a first round playoff game to set up an all-Pennsylvania second round match-up against Perkasie, PA Rise … Todd Uhrig, of Elora Wellington Brewers, pitched a perfect game against Hermann, MO Black Gold in a 7-0 first round playoff win … Black Gold was without their ace Eric Steinbeck who had to leave the tournament yesterday due to a death in the family … Bakersfield, CA California Lumberkings upset Ottawa, ON Team Easton Thunder 2-1 on a Jon Nimmo two-run HR in the 6th … Lumberkings’ pitcher Darren Strang tossed a tidy two-hitter for the win … Port Elgin, ON Blue Devils edged Oswego, NY Cutro Professional Inspections (CPI) 5-4 in 8 innings to move on to the second round … Palermo, ON Athletics got 14 strikeouts from Gord Scott and a massive home run onto Homer Watson Blvd. from Glenn Inglehart to eliminate Glencoe, ON Astros … Harriston Mercury’s knocked out Marshall, MI Rice Creek Lightning 5-1 … in the final round robin games, CPI needing to win to make the playoffs got 1-0 victory over Yakima, WA JRW & Associates … JRW gave up only five runs in four games, but never scored a run during pool play … Ashland, OH Merchants, needing to beat Mitchell, ON Mets to make the playoffs, did so with a 3-2 win … Dan Duemo got the save for winner Scott Hershey … Five of the seven pools had three-way ties for first at the conclusion of round robin play … Thomson, IL Area Merchants and Ashland got the other two wildcards with 2-2 records even tho’ that was only good enough for fourth in their respective pools.

Final pool play standings and a playoff bracket are available at www.ballparkradio.com.

Second round ISC II matchups ( all games at Budd Park):

9 am – Reading, PA Bob Hoffman’s Garage vs Perkasie, PA Rise – www.ballparkradio.com

10 am – Bakersfield, CA California Lumberkings vs Kitchener, ON Phoenix Outlaws

11 am – Elora, ON Wellington Brewers vs Tavistock, ON Merchants – www.ballparkradio.com

12 pm – Elmira, ON Cubs vs Palermo, ON Athletics

1 pm – Port Elgin, ON Blue Devils vs Bridgeport, ON PROforma Braves – www.ballparkradio.com

2 pm – Harriston, ON Mercury’s vs South Lebanon, PA TNT

3 pm – Ashland, OH Merchants or Waterdown, ON Hammer vs Mitchell, ON Mets – www.ballparkradio.com

4 pm – Micksburg, ON Twins or Thomson, IL Area Merchants vs Alvinston, ON Indians

5 pm – quarterfinal 1 www.ballparkradio.com

6 pm – quarterfinal 2

7 pm – quarterfinal 3 www.ballparkradio.com

9 pm – quarterfinal 4 www.ballparkradio.com

TB1

Reading PA Bob Hoffman’s 6

Toronto, ON Champion Indians 1

WP: Art Devoe, relief Dale Emerich

HR: Scott Emerich

LP: Steve Ketchell, relief Jason Giffen

HR: Paul Papulkas

Bob Hoffman’s advances into the final wildcard position and will play Denver, CO Colorado Rage in a 7 pm game on www.ballparkradio.com.

To listen, click the Ballparkradio logo below, then click the link for the game you wish to hear.

Wednesday’s Broadcasts:

* All Game Times are Eastern Time Zone *

WEDNESDAY AUG 16 DAY 4
4:00 PM (if necessary)
Reading, PA Bob Hoffman’s vs Toronto, ON Champion Indians – starting at 4:30 pm

7:00 PM
First round playoff game

9:00 PM
First round playoff game

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Wednesday’s Broadcasts:

* All Game Times are Eastern Time Zone *

WEDNESDAY AUG 16 DAY 4

9:00 AM
Millington, MI Up-to-Date Painting vs Perkasie, PA Rise

11:00 AM
Hermann, MO Black Gold vs Harriston, ON Mercury’s

1:00 PM
Waterdown, ON Hammer vs Bakersfield, CA California Lumberkings

4:00 PM (if necessary)
tie-breaker

7:00 PM
First round playoff game

9:00 PM
First round playoff game

Three more broadcasts were added to the archives, from Day 2, for a total of 8 games now available for listening at the main page of Ballparkradio, at www.ballparkradio.com

Day 2 Broadcasts:

Tavistock vs. TNT, PA
Glencoe Astros vs. CPI, NY
Port Elgin vs. Alvinston

Ballparkradio.com is back on the air after a 3 hour rain delay. The revised schedule is posted at
www.ballparkradio.comBroadcasters Lance Winn and Joe Todd are currently (7:30pm EDT Monday) broadcasting the Tavistock vs. TNT PA game. Two more games will be broadcast tonight, Glencoe vs. CPI NY at 8pm and Port Elgin vs. Alvinston at 10pm.

Some game times were pushed back, with a couple games moved to other fields. By the end of the night Monday, we’ll be back on schedule. Our apologies to fans of Rise Fastpitch and Black & Gold, that their game could not be broadcast as it was moved to another field.