{"id":645,"date":"2006-08-18T20:00:08","date_gmt":"2006-08-19T04:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/thedeuce\/?p=645"},"modified":"2006-08-19T11:58:54","modified_gmt":"2006-08-19T19:58:54","slug":"isc-ii-daily-log-part-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/thedeuce\/?p=645","title":{"rendered":"Tavistock ON Merchants Win 2006 ISC II Tournament of Champions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ISC II Daily Log part 6<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>By Blair Setford &#038; Jim Flanagan<\/p>\n<p>Tavistock, ON Merchants were heartbroken in 2004 in Fargo but they are champions in 2006 in Kitchener, defeating Palermo, ON Athletics 3-2 in 8 innings in a well-played championship game in front of about 3,000 fans on PHBY #1 Friday afternoon &#8230; winning pitcher Steve Cook came on in the 7th inning in relief of starter Ryan Cummings with the score knotted at two &#8230; Palermo had jumped out to a 1-0 lead only to see Tavistock leapfrog ahead with a two-RBI single by Jamie Rader &#8230; the Athletics tied the game in the fifth as Chris McColl drove in Peter Dobbin &#8230; in the top of the 8th, Palermo was unable to score the runner placed on second as the international tie-breaker was in effect &#8230; in the bottom of the 8th, Mark McKay drove in Brad Roth with the winning run, setting off the celebration on the field and in Tavistock &#8230; Paul and Tyler Newman presented the Gord Newman Memorial ISC II Championship Trophy, named for their father, to Tavistock manager Steve Kaufman &#8230; earlier, Tavistock ran over the Perkasie, PA Rise 8-2 in the first semi-final &#8230; back-to-back home runs by Brad Roth and Kevin Thompson led the way while McKay was 3-4 with 3 rbi&#8217;s &#8230; Cummings got the win, going five strong innings with Steve Cook shutting down the Rise over the final two innings &#8230; Palermo knocked off ISC II strikeout king Corey Costello and the Micksburg, ON Twins 6-1, scoring single runs in each of the first three innings capped off  by a three-run fourth, including a line drive HR by Keith Rankin and a triple by Brian Prowse &#8230; Gord Scott picked up another complete game win for Palermo &#8230; Costello pushed his tournament strikeout record to 101 with three strikeouts in three innings of work. <\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iscfastpitch.com\/uploads\/File\/2006-93.HTM\">Click here for box score to 2006 ISC II Championship Game.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thank you to the ISC II host committee, all the volunteers, the grounds crew staff, our ISC II game controllers, umpires, statisticians and broadcasters for a job well done in producing the 2006 ISC II Tournament of Champions &#8230; Hats off to all the teams, players and fans for making the 2006 edition of the ToC the best yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISC II Daily Log part 6 By Blair Setford &#038; Jim Flanagan Tavistock, ON Merchants were heartbroken in 2004 in Fargo but they are champions in 2006 in Kitchener, defeating Palermo, ON Athletics 3-2 in 8 innings in a well-played championship game in front of about 3,000 fans on PHBY #1 Friday afternoon &#8230; winning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/thedeuce\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/thedeuce\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/thedeuce\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/thedeuce\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/thedeuce\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/thedeuce\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/thedeuce\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/thedeuce\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/thedeuce\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}