Ontario Challenge Cup update
Blenheim 5 Rockwood 4
Blenheim advances to play Kitchener Phoenix
Jarvis 2 Mitchell 1
Jarvis will play winner of Blenheim-Kitchener
Winner of that game will play loser of Toronto-Orangeville.
Ontario Challenge Cup update
August 28th, 2005Saturday & early Sunday scores & Sunday schedule for 2005 Ontario Challenge Cup
August 28th, 2005
2005 Laverne Reichert Memorial ISC II Ontario Challenge Cup
Hillsburgh, ON
Saturday & early Sunday scores & Sunday schedule
Saturday 10 am
Toronto Indians 2 Kingston Cowboys 1
Blenheim Home Run 5 Elora 4 – Elora eliminated
Rockwood Drexler Construction 3 Hillsburgh Stallions 0 – Hillsburgh eliminated
Noon
Jarvis Rock 1 Hamilton Hawks 0
Orangeville Resolve Kings over Salford Storm
Niagara Snappers over Breslau Majors – Breslau eliminated
2 pm
Mitchell Mets over Salford Storm – Salford eliminated
Rockwood over Hamilton – Hamilton eliminated
Blenhem 8 Kingston 6 – Kingston eliminated
Rain washes out play for the remainder of the day at the conclusion of the 2 pm games.
Sunday
4 pm Saturday games started at 8 am Sunday
Loser’s bracket:
Mitchell 5 Niagara Snappers 1 – Niagara eliminated
Winner’s bracket
Toronto 4 Jarvis 3
Orangeville 5 Kitchener Phoenix Outlaws 2
Toronto & Orangeville play in winner’s bracket final at 11 am
Kitchener plays winner of Blenheim-Rockwood – Rockwood leading 3-0 as of 10:45 am.
Winner of Kitchener game to play winner of Jarvis-Mitchell.
First championship game is scheduled for sometime between 5 pm & 6 pm at Barbour Field in Hillsburgh.
Streaming of Video and Audio Broadcasts from International Softball Congress Tournaments in Wisconsin Draw Larger Crowds
August 27th, 2005Streaming of Video and Audio Broadcasts from International Softball Congress Tournaments in Wisconsin Draw Larger Crowds
“Is anybody ‘out there’ listening? Or watching?”
Those questions are always a key concern when any form of communication is produced and presented to audiences – – particularly audiences which are not at the scene of the action being described.
Well, they WERE out there listening, and they WERE out there watching when the streaming of audio broadcasts and the live streaming video were coming from Eau Claire and Chippawa Falls, Wisconsin, last week during the I.S.C. World Tournament and the ISC-II Tournament of Champions.
The numbers are in, and they are good – – – VERY good! Read the rest of this entry »
2005 Laverne Reichert Memorial ISC II Ontario Challenge Cup Scores
August 27th, 20052005 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
16 Teams at Elkland “First Weekend” Tournament
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!”.
Port Elgin Blue Devils Run Record to 21-1
August 26th, 2005Bluewater Fastball Leagueat Clifford, Ontario
Port Elgin Blue Devils 7 Clifford Lumber Kings 0
Darryl Banks tossed a complete game 3 hit shutout for the Blue Devils who are 21 & 1 on the year in league play.
Mike Reilly & Brian Lantz had two hits in the victory for Port Elgin who had lost their first league game the night before to the Howick Hitmen.
Port Elgin will host the Scenic City Automotive Crunch on Wednesday night at Lakeview Park in Port Elgin.
Then on September 1st, the Blue Devils will face the Aces in Chepstow.
The league championship tournament is set for the weekend of September 9th to 11th at Chepstow.
For more on the Bluewater Fastball League visit their web site at www.bwfl.stats.8m.com
Fred Wallace
Bayshore Broadcasting
fredww5@hotmail.com
Editor’s Note: The Port Elgin Blue Devils recently finished 2nd among 38 teams at the ISC II Tournament of Champions, taking a 7-0 record into the title game. Enroute, they knocked off the two-time defending champions, the Harriston Mercurys of Ontario.
The team’s average age? 24.
All 2005 Broadcast Archives Now Available through Ballparkradio.com
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: 
* 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
Quite a Night for Ottawa Trio
August 25th, 2005Thunder’s ISC II Pitching Staff Holds Opposition to Three Hits in Three Games, with Cory Costello tossing a Perfecto
[Ottawa, ON]-On Wednesday August 24, in three different league playoffs games with their club teams, the three pitchers from the ISC II #3 Ottawa Team Easton Thunder squad all excelled after their return from the Tournament of Champions in Wisconsin.
At Stittsville, ON: Dan Bradley, pitching for Stittsville 56ers, threw a two hit complete game shutout over the Fitzroy Harbour WC Electric in a 1-0 victory. Bradley had seven strikeouts in the victory. Fitzroy Harbour pitcher Brad Porter, a pitcher on the 2004 roster for the Thunder, also threw a two hitter – the only run was unearned. Stittsville leads the Greater Ottawa Fastball League best-of-five semi-final two games to none.
At Manotick, ON: Dan Konkle, pitching for Kanata Team Easton, threw a one hit complete game shutout over the Manotick Lomor Printers in a 5-0 victory. Konkle had eighteen strikeouts in the victory, and did not go to more than two balls on any batter. Kanata leads the Greater Ottawa Fastball League best-of-five semi-final one game to none.
At Beachburg, ON: Corey Costello, pitching for the Micksburg Twins, threw a perfect game, his second of the season, in a 7-0 victory over Beachburg NRTco. Costello had sixteen strikeouts in the win. Micksburg defeated Beachburg three games to none and now move on the Upper Ottawa Valley Men’s Fastball League final against Campbell’s Bay, QC Royals.
In one night combined totals for Bradley, Konkle and Costello:
21 innings, 0 runs allowed, 3 hits, 3 walks, 41 strikeouts.
regards,
Adam Brown
Fitzroy Harbour, ON West Carleton Electric
http://ca.geocities.com/fitzroyfastball/GOFL.htm
http://ca.geocities.com/fitzroyfastball/UOVMFL.htm
Editor’s Note re: Al’s Fastball Archives
August 25th, 2005As 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
Message from Al Doran re: Al’s Fastball Archives
August 25th, 2005We 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.
-ScottThis does not sound good.
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Website for Reichert Memorial ISC II Ontario Challenge Cup
August 24th, 2005Hillsburgh, ON
To All teams and Fans attending the 2005 Laverne Reichert Memorial ISC II Ontario Challenge Cup in Hillsburgh this weekend.
A previous announcement listed an incorrect tournament web site. The following web site contains the latest information concerning the
tournament, including a downloadable draw, hotel information, etc.
Click here for the correct link to the tournament website.
Regards,
Terry Bennett
Hillsburgh Minor Softball Association
Terry@pcconnect.ca
Glencoe Astros Newest Team Website Link at “The Deuce”
August 24th, 2005The Glencoe Astros are the newest addition to the list of Team Website links at “The Deuce” blog. Click here to visit their site, or use the new link under “Team Websites” in the right hand margin of this page.
Does your ISC II team have a website or webpage, but not listed here at “The Deuce”? Send us the link via email to jim@fastpitchwest.comand we’ll add you to the list.