From Dave Blackburn, 8/19:
The ISC will be webcasting live video of the 2005 World Tournament Semi- Finals, and the Championship game. Those games will take place on Saturday August 20th at Noon, 2:00 PM, for the two semi-finals, and at 4:30 PM CST for the ISC World Championship Game.
Men’s fastpitch softball fans with a broadband Internet connection can watch the ball games in streaming video, on their computers. Just go to the ISC Home Page www.iscfastpitch. com and click the listen live streaming audio button at the bottom of the page. You can also click on www.ballparkradio.com
and click on the ISC Logo.
To full screen the video image, right click on the image and select the full screen option.
Editor’s note: Even if you don’t have high speed connection to watch the video webcast, you can still listen to the game via audio. (it’s the same link to get either, but for audio, just click the second link for audio)
‘Duane Hookom of the Eau Claire organizing committee was instrumental in assisting our effort to assemble a streaming video signal, and link from the Gelein Field Press Box’ said Dave Blackburn, ISC Commissioner of Streaming and Broadcasting. ‘John Onorato of www.Sportsjuice.com has also been incredibly helpful in making this streaming video service available to fastpitch fans worldwide.’
The Noon CST semi-final ball game will feature The world’s #1 ranked team ‘County Materials’ of Marathon Wisconsin, taking on their in-state rival and world’s #5 ranked team, ‘Circle Tap’ of Denmark, Wisconsin.
The 2:00 PM semi-final ball game pits the World’s #2 ranked Farm Tavern of Madison, Wisconsin against the 13th Ranked Todd Martin-lead Hallman Twins from Kitchener Ontario Canada. Earlier on Friday, Martin and the Twins eliminated 2-time defending Champion Broken Bow Spirit by a 4-1 margin, ending The Spirits run of playing in 6 consecutive World Championship final games.
The ISC will crown it’s 59th annual World Champion, at the conclusion of the 4:30 PM CST game that will match the two semi-final game winners.
A`capacity Crowd of over 5,000 is expected at the Gelein Field Ball park for all the action. Internet fans will get all the play-by-play action through Ron Chambers, Ferdi Nelissen, and Dave Blackburn, who will also be produce the webcast.
Editor’s note: Even if you don’t have high speed connection to watch the video webcast, you can still listen to the game via audio. (it’s the same link to get either, but for audio, just click the second link for audio)