There will be a US team in the final four as the Perkasie PA Rise Fastpitch eliminated the Kitchener Phoenix ON Outlaws, 3-1 in a 5pm quarterfinal Thursday night. Ben Blonde had a perfect game into the 5th inning, until a Mel Ross solo home run. Rise tied the game when Chad Walters doubled home Steve Moore who singled with two out. Keith Hammerschmidt followed with a two run homer, giving Rise a lead they would not surrender.
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Perkasie PA Rise Fastpitch First to the Final Four
Thursday, August 17th, 2006Maddy’s ISC II Photos – Day 4
Thursday, August 17th, 2006Maddy’s ISC II Photos, Day 4. Click here to view.
Thursday morning playoff results
Thursday, August 17th, 2006Second Round Playoffs
Perkasie PA Rise, 8, Bob Hoffman Garage, PA – 1
The Perkasie Rise of Pennsylvania eliminated the tournament’s Cinderella team, cross-state rival Bob Hoffman Garage of Reading, PA, 8-1 in 6 innings. Rise shortstop Matt Daley had 5 RBI for the winners, while Mike Smith notched the win. Rise Fastpitch will advance now to the third round, and face the Kitchener ON Outlaws, who defeated the California Lumberkings, 2-1 in 9 innings.
Kitchener Phoenix Outlaws ON 2, California Lumberkings 1, 9 innings
Kitchener ON Outlaws and the California Lumberkings were scoreless through 7 innings, with Dan Martin on the mound for the Outlaws and Darren Strang going for the Lumberkings. Each team scored a run in the 8th, shortstop Carlos Flores driving in the run for California, and Kitchener scoring theirs on an infield out. Brian Teeters just missed a home run, hitting one to the warning track and Flores preventing a run from scoring by snaring a liner towards left to end the 8th inning. California failed to move the runner or score in the 9th. Kitchener won the game when Tim Du Boise hit a flair single to center with the runner scoring.
Tavistock ON 3, Elora Wellington ON Brewers 0 (no hitter by Ryan Cummings)
Tavistock’s Ryan Cummings tossed his second no-hitter of the tournament, a 3-0 win over the Elora Wellingtno Brewers. Tavistock will face the winner of the Port Elgin vs. Bridgeport game, which is just underway at 1pm on Ballparkradio.com
Palermo ON Athletics 8, Elmira ON Cubs 5
The Palermo Athletics overcame a 5 run deficit in the 6th inning for a come-from-behind 8-5 win over defending 2005 ISC II Champions, the Elmira Cubs. Gord Scott was the winning pitcher, striking out the final out of the game with the bases loaded in the 7th.
Port Elgin ON Blue Devils 5, Bridgeport ON Braves 2
Port Elgin pitcher Scott Christie went the distance for the win, while Aaron Whitney struck the big blow, a 3 run homer in the 3rd inning.
Palermo 8, Elmira Cubs 5
The Palermo Athletics overcame a 5-0 deficit with 8 unanswered runs in the 6th inning, to eliminate the defending ISC II champs, the Elmira ON Cubs. Gord Scott retired the final batter with the bases loaded to secure the win.
ISC II Daily Log part 5
Wednesday, August 16th, 2006By 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
Hoffman’s win Tie-Breaker
Wednesday, August 16th, 2006TB1
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.
Bracket for 2006 ISC II
Wednesday, August 16th, 2006Click here for the Playoff Bracket for the ISC II Tournament of Champions.
Final Pool Play Standings & Seeding
Wednesday, August 16th, 2006Click here for Final Pool Play Standings & Seeding for the 2006 ISC II Tournament of Champions.
Maddy’s ISC II Photos – Day 3
Wednesday, August 16th, 2006First-ever ISC II Tie-breaker!
Wednesday, August 16th, 2006To 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
Wednesday ISC II ToC Broadcasts on BallparkRadio.com
Tuesday, August 15th, 2006To 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
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
ISC II Daily Log part 4
Tuesday, August 15th, 2006By Blair Setford & Jim Flanagan
The assault on the record book continued at the ISC II Tournament of Champions on Tuesday. Leading the way is Corey Costello of the Micksburg Twins… On the heels of his 20-strikeout perfect game vs Orangeville, Costello struck out 20 again, tossing a no-hitter against Reading, PA Bob Hoffman’s Garage, with only a walk spoiling another perfect game… Not content with that, Costello came back at 5 pm to strikeout 15 against the defending champion Elmira, ON Cubs in a 3-0 win setting up a potential 3-way tie for first in pool A … Costello has 55 strikeouts in three games … Thomson, IL Area Merchants were facing elimination and needed to beat the host Bridgeport, ON PROforma Braves 3-2 on the strength of a 16-strikeout, 5-hit performance from Jonas Mach who now has 66 strikeouts in 4 games pitched… Kitchener Phoenix Outlaws clinched first place in pool F finishing 4-0 in the round robin with an upset 6-5 win over Elora Brewers … Setting up action Wednesday, Alvinston can wrap up first place in pool D with a win over Palermo, but a Palermo win forces a three-way tie for first … Colorado Rage can force a three-way tie for first in pool A if they can beat Orangeville … The winner of Waterdown & California (1 pm on www.ballparkradio.com) will finish in second in pool B … a Black Gold win over Harriston (11 am on www.ballparkradio.com) coupled with a Rise win over Up-to-Date Painting (9 am on www.ballparkradio.com) could set up a three-way tie for first in pool C … Mitchell Mets will win pool E while Glencoe will finish second … Needing wins to have a chance to qualify are Ashland, playing Mitchell, and CPI playing JRW … the winner of Elora-Stittsville will likely advance to the playoffs while the loser will go home … in pool G, Ottawa’s win over Tavistock would set up a 3-way tie with those two teams and South Lebanon TNT if the latter can beat Toronto.
Pool Play Standings Updated
Tuesday, August 15th, 2006The standings have been updated through Tuesday night’s games (through game 58), with one game still underway.