FASTBALL this week...Cephas Roth Memorial/Tavistock

July 13, 2011

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Big time foul ball last week...I gave the Outlaws the win  over the very hot Wellington Sox in the Mitchell Mets tournament....The Sox were the winners ....and  are they ever  winning...racking up a record  of 12 wins against 1 loss in the South Perth League..way out in front (by 40 runs)  in runs  scored....way down low  in runs scored  against... Mel Ross and Todd Uhrig 2nd lowest in runs allowed, Jeremy Creeden and Todd Uhrig in the top 6 in batting avg. Jeremy leads the league in homers, and Jim Culling and Scott MacDougall are also high in HR production. 

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Just about the right time for  a great fastball tournament...the weather is hot, the teams have a few tournaments and league games in the scorebook, the OASAs are around the corner, teams are ramping it up for the ISCs.  It's time to start putting the foot to the floorboard and seeing if the bats can produce some  runs, if  the gloves can provide some great defence and if the pitcher's can efficiently provide a lot  of outs over 7 innings..

Let's head to Tavistock this week and enjoy eight  great teams at the ball  yard. 

No need to discuss Jarvis, they are a great team, ranked #1 for every good reason..pitching, hitting and defence, no shortcomings there.

Midland Explorers, showed well at the Legends a couple of weeks  ago, making it  to  Sunday afternoon....Last year they were back in Michigan before the Tavistock championship game began....don't think they will  surprise the border guards this year

Owen Sound....what do they lack???  Like Jarvis, solid top  to bottom of the lineup,  offence, defence, grinders from the opening pitch to the 21st out and preparing for the Canadians in late August with a solid team of great Ontario ball  players...

Argentina Juniors....looking forward to seeing this club...

Local teams...from the Tri County...Sweaburg Crush,  checking the TriCounty Web site and it looks like the Crush are winning a lot of games, only a couple of losses..

The South Perth....KW Cubs, Shakespeare Falcons  and Elmira Expos...three top clubs....from one of the most competitive  fastball leagues anywhere.  The Cubs blew thru the Springfield  ISC Qualifier undefeated, winning all games in  less that the regulation 7....no hitters and one hitters...and beat the New Zealand  Black Sox at New Dundee 5 - 0 and left runners  on base several times...

The Expos have run out of steam lately.  Looking at the South Perth stats shows the Expos low on run production but on the other hand, they don't allow  much.  The Casey Halstead and Dan Martin duo keeps  the base runners to a minumum..but lack of production hurts...  Up against some of these high production clubs  in Tavistock,  the lack  of runs may hurt the Expos....

Shakespeare Falcons are 6 - 3 in South Perth league play...2nd to Wellington...The Falcons have some nice hitting..Dave Kollman; .467, Reid Yantzi; 417, Matt Mclaren.375, Jamie Boyd .350 and Sam Forbes at .333


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The OASA Great Lakes is coming up very soon..Civic Holiday weekend..July29th, 30th, 31st. This is the weekend every year since wooden bats and no batting helmets that the Ontario senior and intermediate teams have taken to the diamond to claim provincial supremacy, this year it is at Doug Fischer Memorial in New Dundee.

......I have the Senior Elimination Draw set for New  Dundee...Seniors will play all their games on the Saturday......

11AM...Owen Sound Selects vs Port Elgin  Blue  Devils

1pm.....Selects vs  Hallman Twins

3pm.....Blue Devils vs Hallman Twins

7pm...2nd vs  3rd semi final

9pm ..Winner of 7pm plays 1st place team

and who says there are no surprises anymore

The Intermediate tournament draw will  be out shortly..

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Game of  the week....Wednesday night,  Breslau Stadium...Badgers vs the KW Cubs...

Badgers won in the bottom of the 7th..had trailed 2 - 1 from the 4th, til the 7th..two on base for Breslau and Brandon Horn knocks in one runner on a double, other runner out at home on a 8 - 4 -  2 throw to the plate......Horn at 3rd.... tied and 1 out.....and second baseman Jim White long fly ball to deep centre,   RBIs Horn for the win...nice game..,

Andrew Phibbs WP, Ryan French LP

I managed to get a good seat right behind the screen for this one but moved back a  few rows when it got crowded behind the screen around the bottom of the 3rd...

Cub's Brad Thomson off  to Europe with Emily...scouting trip..will be back  in time for the Great Lakes...

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Ponsonby....Last weekend, the Kitchener Outlaws rode the arms or Dan Martin and Kevin Buckley to the Groves Memorial Hospital Charity Tournament....They outlasted the Cobourg Force who had to  meet the Outlaws twice on  Sunday...The hot sun and long day took its  toll on  the Force, they won  the opener, but could not stay with the Outlaws in the forced  double elimination Championship game.

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Tavistock....8 teams.......4 days....2 diamonds....1 heck of a lot of fastball fun....

See you in Tavistock....

Dennis