Big week for fastpitch in KW. but first a couple of wrapups from recent
tournaments...
HILLSIDE Waterloo U18 SportsZone Tournament
The Waterloo Hillside park SportsZone Midget (U18) tournament was rained
out on the Saturday. Convenor Bruce Young reconfigured the draw,
re-established the playoff criteria and got the tournament in on Sunday.
KW Kolts picked up top prize with a 12 - 7 victory over the Owen Sound
Midget Selects. The Kolts opened with a 7 - 2 victory over
Fisherville, then 12 - 3 over Paris, and 1 - 0 over Caledonia Royals
Owen Sound Selects over New Hamburg Heat 12 - 5, then Selects 11 - 9
over Cobourg, and 8 - 5 over the KW Black Sox..
Bruce Young reported that the Kolts scored 4 in the bottom of the 5th,
and 6th in the win over the Selects,
Cobourg 10 - 6 over the KW Black Sox, Fisherville 8 - 4 over Paris, and
Fisherville a loss to Caledonia 3 - 1, Caledonia 9 Paris 1...
A rain out on Saturday but a great sunny Sunday for fastball at Hillside
.....giving all the teams a good warm up for the Midget Elims set for New
Dundee..Good work from the KW Minor Crew getting this one in.
Bruce is looking forward to seeing all the clubs back in KW next June
along with a few more U18 teams...
NIAGARA FALLS ISC Qualifier.
I couldn't make Niagara Falls for the ISC Qualifier, nor the Walenda
Walk...but the results on Al's Fastpitch and the reports from Blair
Setford were interesting...wished I could have been there.
Scarborough Force continue to show that they are a "force" to be
reckoned with in Ontario fastball piling up another tournament win at
the Qualifier at Ker Park. The Force forced the "if" game on Sunday
with a 10 - 3 win over the Niagara Snappers, and completed the dailey
double beating the Snappers 4 - 3 in the final...
Tyson Barkman went 7 for the Force in the final..allowing 3 runs on 7
hits and 8 Ks,allowing 2 walks. Andy Skelton 4 RBIs on 2
homers...Andrew Phibbs took the loss for Niagara...also going 7,
allowing 8 hits, 6 Ks and 3 walks...
The Force opened with a 4 - 3 win over Waterdown, Andy Skelton the
winner, Tim Neil (LP).. the Force went into the 7th down 3 - 0 got 4
runs for the win...Nick Dambrosio a 2 run walk off homer to seal the
deal...
Donnacona Blue Sox went 5 inninngs losing 13 - 0 to the Force..
Scarborough defeated Shakespeare 5 - 2 with Andy Skelton on the rubber
for 4 innings...allowing the Falcons 2 runs on 2 hits and 7 Ks..5
walks..Tyson Barkman went 3 innings..0 runs 0 hits 4 ks and 1 walk..
Fred Follings started for Shakespeare went 5 innings, 3 runs, 5 hits, 7
ks....0 walks
Jeff Murphy went 2 for the Falcons...allowing 2 unearned runs...0 hits
and 2 Ks..
The Niagara Snappers dropped the Force with a 7 inning 3 hit game by
Andrew Phibbs, Phibbs got 8 Ks and allowed only 1 walk for the Snappers
win...Adam Dearborn went 2 for 3, Trevor Falk went 3 for 3, including 2
homers and 5 RBIs..
That loss dropped the Force to the left side of the bracket and a
meeting with Elmira..
Andy Skelton got that win for Scarborough....7 innings, 5 hits,
allowing 2 runs...a Travis Martin homer...
Dan Martin allowed 5 runs over 1 1/3 innings...3 of them earned..Casey
Halstead went 5 2/3 giving up 6 hits and 1 run....Frank Lang, Jake
Taylor, Nick Dambrosio and Craig Buttar all went 2 - 4 for the
Force....and a rematch with the Snappers, a must win game to force the
.........."if" game...
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Andy Skelton on the rubber, Ian Wallwork for the Snappers...
Skelton went 5 allowing 3 runs off 6 hits...Wallwork 2 2/3 allowing 8
runs on 8 hits...before giving way to Perry Bartley who gave up 2runs on
5 hits...
The Snappers opened with 3 runs...Trevor Falk 2 RBI homer and Mike
Bateman a homer..
But the Force responded with 10 of their own...5 RBIs credited to Craig
Buttar, AndySkelton a homer as well..forcing the "if" game and leading
to the Scarborough win...
the rest of thKW area teams results..
Niagara Snappers 6 - 0 over the Outlaws
and a win for the Outlaws 2 - 0 over Donnacona
followed by an Outlaw loss to Alvinston...12 - 3
Elmira Expos 5 - 2 over Alvinston,
Expos 11 - 1 over Oshweken
and an Expo loss 6 - 1 by the Snappers
followed by a win 9 - 2 over Perry Island
and another win over Alvinston...this time 5 - 0
Hickson Reds lost 5 - 3 to Donnacona Blue Sox
and to Waterdown 9 - 2
Shakespeare Falcons 11 - 6 over Wyevale
and Falcons 10 - 0 over Cree Nation
and a loss to Alvinston...4 - 1
Alvinston picked up a win...2 - 1 over the Toronto Gators
the Gators also lost the opener to Oshweken 1 - 0
It sure sounded like a great tournament on Ball Park Radio...and the
results were outstanding for Scarborough and Niagara. Expos looked
strong in Blair Setford's updates.
LEGENDS of FASTBALL CLASSIC Thursday to Sunday June 21st to 24th
LEGENDS SCHEDULES in PDF
Peter Hallman Ball Yard will again host the Legends, the 9th edition of
this tournament..with guests from as far as New Zealand and Argentina
invited.
Six of the top 20 ISC teams in the lineup...
The KW Cubs open up Thursday night with 2 games, at 7pm against New
Zealand Black Sox, and at 9pm against the Toronto Gators...
Also on Thursday...St Thomas Storm plays the Port Elgin Blue Devils at
7pm and then the Argentina national team at 9 pm..
Junior division action on Thursday at 6pm Stratford/New Dundee Memorials
vs the Owen Sound Junior Selects.
This year 4 good young junior clubs will play for the Legends "MTE
Engineering" U21 championship...The Stratford/New Dundee Memorials,
Wiarton Red Devils, Walkerton Wild and Owen Sound Selects.
Friday nite at 6pm we will see the Walkerton Wild play the Wiarton Red
Devils..a Bruce County match-up of two good young junior teams..
Pool play continues thru Saturday, championship elimination round on
Sunday morning with a championship game set for 1pm..
A new Legends bracket this year...the Jack Fireman Masters
Division....with the Toronto Gators, Stoney Creek Scrappers and the host
Waterloo Classics...
Waterloo and the Gators open on Friday evening at 7pm.
Other Master division play sees Stoney Creek up against the Waterloo
Classics Saturday at 8am. 10AM will see Toronto vs Waterloo... and at
noon..Toronto at Stoney Creek.. Two more Masters pool games leading to
the championship on Sunday afternoon at 3 pm.
Back to Friday's matchups in the Legends division..highly ranked Hill
United out of 6 Nations opens up against the home town Cubs..Friday at
7pm...Midland Explorers vs New Zealand at one of the 9pm games, also at
9pm a real heavy weight matchup..Jarvis and NY Gremlins...
Pool play all day Saturday, in the Legends division..the schedule is
attached...Al's Fastpitch will bring you up to date game by game if you
can't make the ball yard.
Sunday...11...3rd vs 2nd in a crossover, ...at 1pm..winner of 11am plays
#1 and at 1pm...the 2 survivors go for the title..
The 3 brackets have been set, the umpires have been assigned, Ball Park
Radio is warming up, the pies are in the oven, the bar b cue is heated
up, and the beer is chilling...
See you at Peter Hallman Ball Yard...Thursday, Friday, Saturday and
Sunday...
Follow the action all weekend: Schedule and Results
The New Zealand Black Sox and Argentina are playing tonite in
Moorefield, 40 minutes north of KW. They are warming up for Thursdays
opening games of the Legends of Fastball Classic set for Peter Hallman
Ball Yard in Kitchener..
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Dennis Dosman
Dosman Printing
519-888-0304
fax 888-9352
30 Avondale South
Waterloo, ON N2L 2B8
