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Once again over the weekend and today, Monday, we made a decision not to send out our newsletter to over a thousand people for each of the
many reports we have received Friday to Monday.
Reason is simple, and good news: there was too much news!
This is becoming a habit and we love it. Many fans have told us they love it too. They can get the news at either our main news site:
NEWS-1 http://www.alsfastball.com/
or at our back up site:
NEWS-2 http://fastpitchwest.com/alsfastball
Also, more and more people have signed up for RSS and get each news update by an automatic news feed, see
http://www.alsfastball.com/index.php?page=124
Over the weekend it was heartwarming to see so many of "our roving reporters"sending in regular updates from their tournaments.
Only a few tournaments failed to report in and we know who they are. We know they will try harder next year.
Just a sample of reports that came in on a regular basis over the weekend and the star reporters who did the work to make it happen:
Blair Setford, ISC VP and ISC II Commissioner reporting on ISC II Regional Qualifier from Innerkip, Ontario
not only did Blair send us updates each day with a recap of all the games, but during the day he sent updates game by game via
his blackberry so the fans could follow the action from Innerkip all weekend.
His full recap is at:
http://www.alsfastball.com/uploads/File/2007%20Canada%20East%20ISC%20II%20Qualifier%20in%20Innerkip.htm
His individual reports are on our News site and you can see the full month of Juneat:
http://www.alsfastball.com/index.php?page=25
Excellent work Blair - many thanks.
Congrats to the host crew in Innerkip for holding another great tournament.
Congrats to top teams:
Order of finish:
Wyevale Tribe
Bucktown Bees
Harriston Mercury's
Port Elgin Blue Devils
T5 Elmira Cubs, Alvinston Indians
T7 Glencoe Astros, Shakespeare Falcons
Stu Taylor, Tournament Director, reporting on his 41st Annual Eau Claire Classic from Wisconsin.
Terrific game reports on a timely basis.
His recap is at
http://www.alsfastball.com/uploads/File/2007%20Eau%20Claire%20Classic.htm
Regular reports on our NEWS-1 at
http://www.alsfastball.com/index.php?page=25
Another great tournamentrun by Eau Claire
Congrats to The Farm on their win and all the teams for participating.
Jim Flanagan reporting for and with Tom Ree from the 2007 Portland DeMarini Rose Cup
Full recap at Fastpitchwest.com and
http://www.alsfastball.com/uploads/File/Rose%20Cup%202007.htm
Individual reports on NEWS-1 at
http://www.alsfastball.com/index.php?page=25
Congrats to Broken Bow on their win and all the teams for participating.
Our good friend Pavel Prachar, Technical Commission at the ISF Men's World Cup in Prague.
This was their first major tournament in Europe and it sounded like a major success.
We appreciated being kept in the loop by Pavel as well as by Brian McCall of USA Softball
(reporting on Team USA) and by our good friend Norman Ames Decos EHS Fastpitch, Haarlem, The Netherlands
who kept us up to date on his team and tournament progress as well.
Many reports complete with USA team stats at http://www.alsfastball.com/index.php?page=25
Congratulations to Pavel and his host committee, all the teams who participated and in particular to Japan
who won the cup.
Gary and Brett Baughman who had the pleasure of reporting from Walcott Iowa for the past two weeks
on their Regional ISC Qualifier. Their reports are at
http://www.alsfastball.com/index.php?page=25
complete with Game Stats.
Those are just a few of the major stories over the weekend. Check http://www.alsfastball.com/index.php?page=25
to get all the updates.
This coming weekend is one of the big ones, and one that many fans have been waiting for as it will seesome major match ups.
The 4th edition of the World Fastball Invitational in Monkton, June 28 to July 1 promises to live up to if not surpass its previous
major success as a key stop on the tournament calendar. Check the Monkton logo link on our front page for all the updates
http://www.alsfastball.com/
Hopefully we will see you in Monkton.
Thanks,
Al
Follow all theaction this summer at:
Al's Fastball News
*Email: fastball@pmihrm.com
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NEWS-2: http://fastpitchwest.com/alsfastball
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2007 Season Plans for AlsFastball
www.alsfastball.com
We plan to be in
Monkton – June 29 – July 1 – Men’s WorldFastballInvitational
Orillia – July 14-16 – World Series of Fastball
Kitchener – August 10-18 – 2007 ISC World Tournament
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