Archive for the ‘2006 ISC II ToC’ Category

2006 ISC II ToC Stats now available

Wednesday, April 11th, 2007

At long last, the 2006 ISC II ToC stats have been posted on the ISC website.

Click here to get your stats fix.

ISC Guides Now Available

Wednesday, April 11th, 2007

[Salt Lake City, UT] – The 2007 edition of the annual ISC World Championship Guide is now available for purchase. This new edition has 152 pages filled with information about the 2006 ISC World Tournament, the 2006 ISC II Tournament of Champions, 2006 Developmental Tournaments for both 23U and U19 teams. It contains historical records of most offensive, defensive and pitching statistics going back to 1947. The 2007 Guide has more photos than any prior editions. The Hall of Fame section has 8-pages of photos of 2006 inductees and the text of a very inspirational talk given by 12 year old Johnathon Baker of Kitchener. It also includes a complete list of all Hall of Fame inductees, by year and the rules for nominating someone for Hall of Fame consideration. Photos of all 32-World Tournament teams, World Tournament umpires, ISC II umpires and ISC Commissioners are in full color. It shows the following from 1947 to present: ISC World Champions, Most Valuable Players, Outstanding Pitchers, Leading Hitters and Most RBI. It has a great feature article on Dave Blackburn and his streaming team’s efforts to successfully provide video streaming of world tournament games from Kitchener last year. There are more than 20 pages of ISC II coverage including dozens of photos, team and individual stats and all-time ISC II records. There’s also the all-time list of ISC All-World players, from 1947 thru 2006, and a separate list of the 47 players making All-World teams 5 or more times. The Guide contains ISC rules and newly revised Region definitions.

Orders for the Guide can be handled in two different manners.

1. From our web site www.iscfastpitch.com click on ISC Products and follow the links. Payment is made by Visa or Mastercard.

2. Mail a $7.50US check or money order, payable to ISC, to Ken Hackmeister – 153 E. 200 S. – #10 Farmington, UT 84025. Or email to iscken@comcast.net to order and pay by Visa or Mastercard. We feel all fastball fans and players will want to have the 2007 ISC World Championship Guide for their collection as well as seeing some very interesting articles, stats and photos.

Ken Hackmeister
iscken@comcast.net

Welcome

Editor’s note: FastpitchWest is pleased to appear as a sponsor, at page 98, and to see that the ISC has included many of Maddy’s photos, started at page 79, a large color photo of Travis Price, featured prominently on the AAU Tournament flyer, and lots of ISC II photos at page 80 and those that follow.

Micksburg wins UOVMFL playoff title for third year in a row

Friday, September 29th, 2006

Micksburg, ON
UOVMFL: http://ca.geocities.com/fitzroyfastball/UOVMFL.htm

The Micksburg Twins won the Upper Ottawa Valley Men’s Fastball League playoff final series with a 4-1 series win in the best-of-seven series over the Pontiac Royals from Bryson, Quebec. All games were very close, with the largest margin of victory being a 3 run win by Micksburg in the final game.

This is the third consecutive playoff title for the Twins in UOVMFL play, who also won the regular season title. Micksburg also finished tied for third at the Tournament of Champions for ISC II teams in Kitchener this summer.

Micksburg was led by ToC MVP Corey Costello, who threw four shutouts in his four wins, allowing only two runs and eleven hits in the 36 innings of work over five complete games in the final. Costello also had two no-hitters.

Veteran lefty Len Burger threw very well for Pontiac before going down to a knee injury. Burger lost the first game despite throwing a two hitter and won the second game in eight innings with a one hitter. Darren Featherstone and Mark Wright also threw for the Royals.

Game four was a hitless game, as Micksburg scored their two runs on a sacrifice fly and a bases-loaded walk.

The only home run of the series was hit by Corey Costello, a solo shot that won the first game of the series by a 1-0 score.

There was some controversy in the series, with allegations of pitchers deliberately throwing at batters, and even a player getting involved with fans. See the links below for stories on each game. The series was plagued by rain as three games had to be postponed.

Pontiac had previously beaten the Shawville, QC Athletics in the semi-finals 3 games to 1 in the best-of-five.

The Upper Ottawa Valley League was down to three teams this season after Beachburg, ON NRTCo dropped out in June. Fitzroy Harbour, ON WC Electric and Quyon, QC Junior Flyers played an affiliate schedule with the league. There has been discussions of a possible team from Cobden, ON joining the league for 2007.

Game Results in the finals:

Game 1 at Micksburg
Micksburg 1 Pontiac 0
WP – Costello (no-hitter); LP – Burger (two-hitter).
Game winning solo HR: Corey Costello
Game 1 story

Game 2 at Bryson
Pontiac 2 Micksburg 1 (8 innings)
WP – Burger (one-hitter); LP – Costello (two-hitter).
Game winning RBI: Chad Milne
Game 2 story

Game 3 at Bryson
Micksburg 2 Pontiac 0
WP – Costello (four-hitter); LP – Burger with relief from Featherstone.
Game winning RBI: Kevin Humphries
Game 3 story

Game 4 at Micksburg
Micksburg 2 Pontiac 0
WP – Costello (no-hitter); LP – Burger with relief from Featherstone (combined no-hitter).
Game winning RBI: Jerry McIntyre
Game 4 story

Game 5 at Micksburg
Micksburg 3 Pontiac 0
WP – Costello (five-hitter); LP – Featherstone with relief from Wright.
Game winning RBI: Barry McIntyre
Game 5 story

Final Order of Finish for 2006 ISC II T of C

Thursday, September 7th, 2006

1 Tavistock, ON Merchants (7-1)
2 Palermo, ON Athletics (6-3)
T3 Micksburg, ON Twins (6-2)
T3 Perkasie, PA Rise (5-2)
T5 Ashland, OH Merchants (4-3)
T5 Port Elgin, ON Blue Devils (5-2)
T5 South Lebanon, PA TNT (4-2)
T5 Kitchener ON Phoenix Outlaws (5-1)
T9 Alvinston, ON Indians (4-1)
T9 Mitchell, ON Mets (3-2)
T9 Harriston, ON Mercury’s (4-2)
T9 Bridgeport, ON PROforma Braves (3-2)
T9 Elmira, ON Cubs (3-2)
T9 Elora, ON Wellington Brewers (3-3)
T9 Bakersfield, CA California LumberKings (3-3)
T9 Reading, PA Bob Hoffman’s Garage (3-4)
T17 Thomson, IL Area Merchants (2-3)
T17 Waterdown, ON Hammer (3-2)
T17 Marshall, MI Rice Creek Lighting (3-2)
T17 Glencoe, ON Astros (3-2)
T17 Denver, CO Colorado Rage (3-2)
T17 Ottawa, ON Team Easton Thunder (2-3)
T17 Oswego, NY Cutro Professional Inspections (2-3)
T17 Hermann, MO Black Gold (3-2)
25 Toronto, ON Champion Indians (1-4)
26 Kingston, ON Cowboys (1-3)
26 Stittsville, ON 56ers (1-3)
26 Orrville, OH Orr Park Knights (1-3)
26 Millington, MI Up-to-Date Painting (1-3)
26 Grande Prairie, AB Pride (1-3)
31 Sydney, NS Cardinals (0-4)
31 Yakima, WA JRW & Associates (0-4)
31 Harrisburg, PA PA Power (0-4)
31 Orangeville, ON Resolve Kings (0-4)
31 Fitzroy Harbour, ON West Carleton Electric (0-4)

All 29 ISC II T of C Broadcasts Now Available on Ballparkradio.com

Sunday, August 27th, 2006


Click here for the entire Archive for all twenty-nine (29) broadcasts for the 2006 ISC II Tournament of Champions. Remember the files are large so be patient as they load into your computer. You will notice that after the first time loading, the files load much quicker.

For the ISC II broadcast crew of Blair Setford, Joe Todd, Lance Winn, Chris Bach, David Bakker, Kyle Smith and myself, the 2006 T of C broadcast program marked our largest undertaking ever, 29 of the 93 games played, over six days, including seven games on the second to last day of the event, starting at 9am and going off the air after midnight. We appreciated the incredible support received for this program, including the many of you who sent emails during the broadcasts. You can still send your emails to us at live (at) ballparkradio.com

Maddy’s ISC II Photos – Day 6

Saturday, August 26th, 2006


We are pleased to share a link to the galleries for “Day 6” of the ISC II Tournament of Champions, August 18, 2006.

Click “Maddy’s Photos” logo above, then the menu buttons for Galleries 12, 13 and 14. .

Which ones are your favorites? Email maddy (at) maddyphotos.com

Maddy’s ISC II Photos – Day 5

Saturday, August 26th, 2006


We are pleased to share a link to the galleries for “Day 5” of the ISC II Tournament of Champions, August 17, 2006.

Click “Maddy’s Photos” logo above, then the menu buttons for Galleries 9, 10 and 11.

Which ones are your favorites? Email maddy (at) maddyphotos.com

Maddy’s ISC II Photos – Kitchener & Budd Park

Saturday, August 26th, 2006


We are pleased to share a link to some photos of Budd Park taken prior to the start of the tournament, as well as a number taken in Kitchener and the surrounding countryside during the week.

And just for good measure, here is a bonus shot that Maddy didn’t include in the Kitchener gallery that I think it he best shot of all. It was taken in the countryside, about a half hour from the fields.

Click “Maddy’s Photos” logo above, then the menu buttons for “Kitchener” and “Budd Park”

Maddy’s ISC II Photos – Day 4

Saturday, August 26th, 2006


We are pleased to share a link to the more extensive galleries for “Day 4” of the ISC II Tournament of Champions, August 16, 2006.

Click “Maddy’s Photos” logo above, then the menu buttons for Galleries 6, 7 and 8.

Maddy is continuing to work on photos from the tournament, and we will be posting additional galleries very soon. Which ones are your favorites? Email maddy (at) maddyphotos.com

Maddy’s ISC II Photos – Day 3

Friday, August 25th, 2006


We are pleased to share a link to the more extensive galleries for “Day 3” of the ISC II Tournament of Champions, August 15, 2006.

Click “Maddy’s Photos” logo above, then the menu buttons for Galleries 4 and 5.

Maddy is continuing to work on photos from the tournament, and we will be posting additional galleries very soon. Which ones are your favorites? Email maddy (at) maddyphotos.com

Maddy’s ISC II Photos – Day 2

Thursday, August 24th, 2006


We are pleased to share a link to the more extensive galleries for “Day 2 of the ISC II Tournament of Champions, August 14, 2006.

Click “Maddy’s Photos” logo above, then the menu button for Gallery 3.

Maddy is continuing to work on photos from the tournament, and we will be posting additional galleries very soon.

ISC II Semi-Finals Added to Broadcast Archives – Games 91 & 92

Thursday, August 24th, 2006


We’ve added two more games to the ISC II Broadcast Archives at Ballparkradio, Semi-final games 91 and 92, between Rise Fastpitch/Tavistock and Micksburg/Palermo, respectively.

There is a bit of pre-game on Game 91 as we were making sure that our broadcasts were going out from the new location at Peter Hallman Field number 2, but you can skip over it and jump to the action.

Click here for the ISC II archive page at Ballparkradio.com, then click “Game 91 or 92” to listen. Remember the files are large so be patient as they load into your computer. You will notice that after the first time loading, the files load much quicker.