By RUSTY BRYAN
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RONCHI DEI LEGIONARI, Italy — Sisters Morgan and Ali Parkerson, who combined to make the All-Europe team five times when they played for the Lakenheath Lancers and who now start for the national fast-pitch softball team of Great Britain, can plan on spending part of next summer at the International Softball Federation’s World Championships at Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Canada.
With Morgan, 23, playing first base, and Ali, 19, at second, the Brits downed the Czech Republic 2-0 Friday night to advance to the losers-bracket final and clinch third place in the 20-nation event which ended Saturday. The top three teams from the European tournament qualified for next summer’s Worlds.
Ali Parkerson managed the family’s lone hit, a single, in four combined at-bats against the Czechs.
In Saturday’s losers-bracket final, the sisters were a combined 0-5 in a 1-0 loss to Italy that sent the Italians to the tourney title game. Paola Cavallo two-hit Great Britain in the game, Italy’s second 1-0 tourney victory over the Brits. Stella Terazzi three-hit Britain on July 31.
Italy’s staff was less effective in Saturday’s title game, surrendering 10 runs to tourney champion Netherlands in a 10-3 defeat.
The trip to the Worlds, which will take advantage of the 20 hours of daylight which characterzie a Yukon summer day, will be the second for Morgan Parkerson. A graduate of Western Washington University, Morgan Parkerson played on the British team in the 2010 Worlds in Caracas, Venezuela. Ali Parkerson, a sophomore at Western Oregon University, is in her first season with the British national team.
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