This Week in Fastball
August 17, 2011
Kitchener, ON
This Week in Fastball....ISC World Tournament Edition...
It just feels like a changeup.....everything is slow.....slow...slow
locally on the fastpitch watch...
The South Perth is in slow motion, with several teams in Quad Cities
Iowa/Illinois competing at the ISC Worlds....KW Cubs, Elmira Expos,
Wellington Sox, Hickson Reds, Shakespeare Falcons, Mitchell Mets,
The complete schedule and results are at these Google seach addresses
ISC fastpitch 2011 and look for
2011 ISC World Tournament Master Schedule
Also Al's Fastball List
look to news, then find 2011 ISC World Tournament and
World Tournament Master Schedule
Some scoresinvolving our local teams.....
....Mitchell 6 - Davenport iowa 0 in game 1 to open the tournament
Hickson Red 5 - Quad Cities Titans 0
Shakespeare Falcons 2 - Appleton Wisc 0
Sweaburg Crush 2 Topeka Kansas 0
Seatle Wash 2 - Alvinston 0
Wellington Sox (Harriston) 4 - Ackley iowa 2
Aurora Ilinois 5 - Wyevale 4
Cobourg Force 2 - The Bar of Appleton Wisc...0
Toronto Gators 9 Iowa Cocks 7
Elmira Expos 4 - Walcott Iowa 3
Midland Explorers 4 - Sweaburg Crush 0
Jarvis Travelers 7 Elhart Ind. 0
Mitchell Mets, 8 Ashland Stock Pak 4
St Paul Minn. 8 - Hickson 0
Harrisburg Penn, 4 - Shakespeare 2
Bakersfield Calif. 4 - Wellington Sox 2
Owen Sound Selects 4 - Halifax NS 0
Peublo Bandits, Calif. 3 - Gators 0
Davenport iowa 2 - Cobourg Force 0
KW Cubs 5 - Pete's Blue Illinois 1
NY Chicago 7 - Elmira Expos 0
Elmira Expos 11 - Davenport 3
Gators 2 - Appleton 1
Alvinston 4 - Stockton Calif 3
Cobourg Force 1 - Wyevale 0
Wellington Sox 8 - Anadarko Okla 1
Sweaburg 10 - Ottumwa Iowa 7
Shakespeare 6 - Winterset 1
Hickson Reds 10 Walcott 5
Elmira 2 Elkart 1
Jarvis 14 - Mitchell 0
Saskatoon Diamond Backs 3 - Owen Sound 1
Wellington 18 - Aurora 5
Shakespeare 7 Hickson 0
Wyevale 5 - Hickson 1
Wyevale 8 - Elmira 7
Winterset 1 - Wellington Sox 0
Jarvis 4 - St Paul 1
Shakepeare 7 - Sweaburg 1
The KW cubs lost a tough one to New York city's NewYork/Chicago...
Ryan French went 7 innings allowed 3 hits, 3 walks and 7 Ks, and
lost to Andrew Kirkpatrick 3 - 0, Kirkpatrick allowed 4 hits, 1 walk
and 15 Ks
KW Cubs 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0
NY Chicago 0 0 0 1 1 1 x 3 3 0
Cubs left 6 on base..NY left 4,
Wednesday's games included a 8 - 0 win for the Cubs over Wyevale and a
7 - 2 win over Stockton California
And the Alvinston Indians beat the Owen Sound Selects 4 - 2
If you follow the directions to the ISC web site and find the schedule
and results, and click on the winning team, you can get a blow by blow
of each game...
Thanks to my computer guy John MacTavish for those instructions...If you
want to know anything about fastpitch..go to "Johnny Mac"
TOM CLANCY
Tom Clancy, forwarded a note from Keri Ryan asking for volunteers to
assist with the upcoming Rookie Ball tournament.... Rookie ball is
played with a pitching machine, the games will be played at Peter
Hallman, SW Optimists, ( I have a story about that park) Wilson Ave,
Rosenburg and Budd. Those venues are familiar to many of you. Keri
mentions that she will need convenors (game controllers), scorers,
announcers and scoreboard operators, with emphasis on the first two....
Give Keri a call at 519 578 6477 keri.ryan@PIB.com or Tom Clancy at
candtclancy@rogers.com
The story about the SW Optimists Park...I was helping my daughter's
teacher with Emily's grade 8 softball team...We were to play at SW
Optimists park, I drove 5 girls to the park..read the schedule, Our
Lady of Lourdes plays on Diam 3, home team, vs Holy Rosary...Went to
Diamond 3, set up on the bench, got the girls warming up, and along
comes the convenor...with these huge bristol boards with numbers 1 2 and
3 on them...and covers the nice City of Kitchener diamond
numbers....puts #1 over top of #3, puts #2 over top of # 2 and puts #3
over top of #1....We move back to Diamond 1 which is now Diam #3...so
does Holy Rosary, and so do 2 other teams...I forwarded her name to Roy
Stout for a ISC Game Control position.
UNDER 23 OASA Classification for Junior Men
George Ryder is proposing an amendment to the OASA at their Annual
General Meeting set for November. Al Staats has been working hard
to build support to continue with the under 23 age group for junior
men fastpitch. The OASA is being asked to approve that the under 23
classification as well as continue along with the under21 grouping.
The CASA has moved to the younger classification across the country.
Ontario will continue to send a junior under 21 team to the nationals
and declare an under 23 as well. George is looking for support for
this amendment...
George Ryder is at georgeryder@bell.net
MINOR BALL PROVINCIALS
Some minor ball championships for a couple of local minor ball teams
include:
Squirt Select Provincials in Richmond Hill. The Squirt team went 3 and
1, opening with a loss to Topham Park 2 - 0, then 3 wins, 10 - 4 over
Micksburg, 14 - 0 over Port Perry and a 7 - 6 decision over Georgian Bay
KW Bantam Kolts went 2 and 2 in Cobourg Aug 6 and 7th...Jon Baker threw
a 1 hit, 13 Ks and Mike Arnott had the winning RBI in a 2 - 0 win over
Port Perry,
Fullerton lost to the Kolts 5 - 4 again Baker got the win, on 8 hits,
and 15 Ks, (the game went 9 innings), Brody Stevenson the winning RBI,
Pickering beat the Kolts 4 - 1 and Teeswater eliminated them with a 1 -
0 win on Sunday morning.
ONTARIO CHALLENGE CUP set for New Dundee, Doug Fischer Park.
Coming up, the Ontario Challenge Cup is being held in New Dundee this
year....Teams from several fastball leagues will be competing to play
in next years ISC tournament. The OCC is expecting 12 to 14 teams from
several fastball leagues across southern Ontario, Games will begin on
the Thursday night. For more information...Joe Todd at
ftode739@rogers.com .....or Blair Setford blairjs@rogers.com ...
the Kitchener Selects are the host club. Mike Brown at
brown.mike.85@gmail.com
MIDGET B's in Milton
Jerry Smith has emailed me with the news that fastball fans will be
interested in knowing that Mitchell is hosting the Midget B's this
month...August 20th and 21st. For more information on that contact
Jerry at jsmith@mornington.ca
WLU GOLDEN HAWKS TRY OUTS
Matt Allen...... matt_allen44@hotmail.com .... sent a note advising
that tryouts for the WLU Golden Hawks fastpitch team will be held
soon...for more info contact Matt and check out
www.laurierathletics.com/createarticle.php?id=5440
OWEN SOUND HOSTS THE CANADIAN MEN'S CHAMPIONSHIPS
The schedule has been released for the CASA Men's championships in Owen
Sound...and here are the opening games
August 28th...Sunday...11am...Hallman Twins vs Quebec (Quyon Flyers)
1 pm....Port Elgin vs Vancouver
3pm...Kitchener vs St John's Newfoundland
Opening ceremonies at 5pm
Darren Zack will be honoured.
6:30 PEI vs Owen Sound Selects
8:30 Frederickton NB vs Vancouver BC
Games continue all week with the Canadian Championship game set for
Sunday Sept 4th...
Other games to note for Ontario fastball fans..
Owen Sound then plays Kitchener Hallman Twins on Monday at 8:30
then meet Vancouver at noon on Tuesday
Fredericton 8;30 Tuesday evening
St John's NL Wed at 2pm and Port Elgin at 6:30 Wednesday
On Thursday they meet Quebec to close out the 7 game round robin at 8:30
Kitchener Hallman Twins 4th game is Tuesday at 6:30 vs Port Elgin
then Wed at 4pm vs Fredericton NB,
Thursday at 10 am vs PEI and at 4pm vs Vancouver
Port Elgin's meets Fredericton Monday at noon, and St John's Nfld at 4pm
On Thursday they play Quebec at 2pm and and PEI at 6:30
The complete schedule is on the Softball Canada web site. look for
Championships and Owen Sound Senior Men's
Tentative rosters for the Canadians in Owen Sound show 4 teams that
should be in the final four....
Owen Sound Verge Selects have been building their club for a couple of
years now to compete as host club, and Ontario Champions..Leahy,
Skelton, Wideman, Thompson, Lang, Dambrosio, Lyon, and lots of other top
Ontario players will be ready to take the field and win the Canadians
British Columbia's team looks strong...Nick Underhill, Dereck Mayson,
Tyson Barkman, Rick Smith, Greg Ormsby, Kevin Schellenberg, Scott
newitt, Rob Geisbrecht, Chris Waverick, Kelly Wenstrom, plus, plus
Newfoundland are rumoured to be sending the following greats and have
to be a favorite for the final four.... Cleary, the 3 Ezekiels, Colin
Abbott, Mullaley, Ian Ferhman,
Kitchener Hallman Twins...look something like this...Don Scott, Grant
Patterson, Andy Jackson, Rob O'Brien, Andrew Phibbs, Allan Phibbs, Dave
Bailey, Greg Courneyea, Ryan Wolfe, Dale Levy, AJ Moses, Pat Graham,
Brendon Horn, Brian Roote, Chad Crawford, Terry Martin, and Scott Lealess.
Much of this is pure speculation, more details later on this...the
rosters have not been posted as yet on the Softball Canada web site....
See you in Owen Sound....it looks like a great week of fastball....
All this and food, beer, great ball park, Fred Wallace on the
microphone, and great Grey County hospitality...It takes a lot of work,
preparation, planning, logistics to put on a Canadian
championship....Owen Sound has the ability to get the job done...this
will be a great week of fastball
see you behind the screen....
Dennis
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