This Week in Fastball - August 3rd - Canadian Jrs (U21) in Owen Sound - Great Lakes -

August 4, 2012

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CANADIAN U21 CHAMPIONSHIPS in Owen Sound August 6th to the 12th..

"Any one of these teams can win it" says Jamie Simpson of the Owen
Sound Volkswagon Selects U21 team.

Jamie's forecast is right on the money..If they are coming to Duncan
McLelland Park next week, they want to win, and they are prepared to
win. We might think that Owen Sound and Walkerton and Wiarton are
strong clubs here in this part of Ontario, but one of the Alberta
teams, Irma Tigers has placed 5 players on the Team Canada Selection
camp being held the week following the Canadian championships in
nearby Cambridge.

The Softball Canada U21s open up on Civic holiday monday at Duncan
McLelland Park in Owen Sound. The 4 Ontario teams all play on Monday,
8:30 am the Wiarton Red Devils vs BC's Fleetwood Marlins on Diam 2,
Walkerton Wild vs Keeseekoose Chiefs of Sask. at 10am on Diam 1, Oshawa
Double B's on Diam 2 at 10 30, vs Irma Tigers from Alberta, and at 12
noon, Owen Sound VW up against Calahoo Alberta Chiefs.

Each Ontario team has a second game on Monday..Walkerton vs Kelly's Pub
Canadian's from Newfoundland at 2pm, Wiarton meets the Newfoundland
team at 9pm Monday...Oshawa meets Keeseekoose (Sask) at 2:30 and Owen
Sound plays thier opening day 2nd game at 7;15 up against the Saskatoon
Bullets...

The full preliminary draw is attached..playoffs begin on Friday evening
with the "lower bowl" consolation round championship round is on
Saturday and runs thru to Sunday afternoon.

This is a great field, 13 teams from BC to Newfoundland, 4 well
matched Ontario teams, teams from Alberta, and Saskatchewan, Quebec and
Prince Edward Island...

Last year Owen Sound produced a great Canadian Men's championship,
Newfoundland vs Kitchener Twins. The Twins won..I wonder if it will
be a Newfoundland vs Ontario again in this years U21 final....or a
rematch of the Ontario championships...

Hope to see many of you Ontario fastpitch softball fans in Owen Sound
this week...

SOFTBALL CANADA ANNOUNCES LINEUP

Softball Canada has announced the National Team Roster for the Pan
American Championships...and 6 Ontario players were named to the
squad....Brandon Horn of Waterloo, Don Scott of Stratford, Greg Garrity
of Courtice, Rowan Lam and Mark Johnson of Glencoe, and Andy Skelton
of Newmarket join the 17 member team.

These Canadian's will be in Medina Columbia Sept 15 - 23rd for the Pan
Am event. This serves as the qualifier for the ISFs in Aukland New
Zealand next March 1st - 10th....

Reviewing the lineup, and checking the rosters of the Legends and Cephas
Roth tournaments, local fans have seen all of these Ontario players
and almost everyone of the other Team Canada roster players on club
teams this summer either in Kitchener or Tavistock....including Bryan
Abrey, Tyson Barkman, Ryan Boland, Jeff Ellsworth, Blair Ezekiel, Jason
Hill, Stephen Mullaley, Mathieu Roy, Jason Sandford,

I am not sure if Brennan Poloyoway was here or Brady Woods...but never
the less, we do get to see some great fastball players locally...

KW CUBS WIN THE GREAT LAKES

Speaking of great ball players, the KW Cubs are off to the Canaidan
Seniors this year on the strength of their win in Jarvis at the
OASA Great Lakes tournament this past weekend in Jarvis...

The KW team got off to a poor start in Game 1 against Jarvis...Paul
Koert went the distance for the Travellers, allowed 3 hits and one run.
Cub's Ryan French allowed 4 runs on 4 hits, got only 2 Ks compared to
Koert's 11Ks.
Ryan Wolfe and Bartorillo HRs for the Travellers..

In the 2nd game on the opening Friday nite draw, the Kitchener Outlaws
got a 2 hit pitching performance from Mel Ross, to beat Palermo/Hammer
1 - 0...Mel allowed 2 hits, and got 11 strikouts for the win. Tim Neil
allowed only 2 hits, and 8 Ks, but the Hammer could not score.

On Saturday the Cubs and the Outlaws met, and the Cubs came out on top
15 - 3. Scott Wagar went 7 innings for the Cubs, allowing 8 hits, and
got 13 Ks..

Palermo was next for the Cubs...and a 9 - 2 win behind the pitching of
Ryan French, 4 hits and 4 Ks for Ryan.

Sunday and Scarborough in the semi finals..Scott Wagar vs Andy Skelton
and Tyson Barkman ...and Wagar another win, this time a Cub run in the
bottom of the 7th to break a 3 -3 tie..

and up against the host, Jarvis's Paul Koert vs Ryan French with help
from Scott Wagar...The Cubs jumped out to a 5 run lead in the first
inning...a 3 RBI homer from Allan Phibbs leading the way....

Final KW Cubs 6 Jarvis Travellers 5...and off to New Brunswick for the
Cubs....and another appearance for a KW team in the national championships..

Other scores...

Scarborough 8 - 1 over Ohsweken
Scarborough 7 - 0 over Niagara
Scarborough 4 - 2 over Sweaburg

Jarvis 11 - Palermo 1
Jarvis 8 - Kitchener Outlaws 1
Jarvis 9 - Niagara 0

Niagara 2 - Sweaburg 0
Ohsweken 3 - Sweaburg 0
Niagara 3 - Ohsweken 2
Sweaburg 8 - Kitchener Outlaws 1

This year the preliminary round resulted in seedings for the two Ontario
Championships..the top 4 for the Great Lakes and the trip to the CASA
Senior Nationals....the lower 4 for the OASA Intermediate "A"
championship.

and for the Intermediate A title game

Palermo 4 Sweaburg 2

Tim Neil got the win for Palermo in relief of Doug Hoffman
and Shawn Winship the loss in relief of Adam Martin...


LINEUPS SET FOR MIDLAND AND THE ISC WORLD TOURNAMENT

Here are the opening games for these Ontario teams heading to the ISC
Worlds in Midland, August 11th to the 18th...

KW Cubs open up with Winterset,

Harriston Wellington Sox, vs Aurora Dolan & Murphy

Alvinston Indians vs Pueblo Bandits

Toronto Gators vs Rocky Mountain Rebels

Kitchener Outlaws vs Big Apple Bagels

Niagara Snappers vs Bar on the Ave. Buzz

Wyevale Tribe vs Quad City Sox

Wiarton Nationals vs Gillies/Huron Wellness

Sweaburg Crush vs NY Bombers

Elmira Expos vs Lanceros of Venezuela

Waterdown Hammer vs Minnesota Angels

Sharkespeare Falcons vs Motor City Shamrocks

St Thomas Evergreen Storm vs Czech Rebuplic

The Jarvis Travellers, Scarborough Force and Hill United have first
round byes...



Three Masters teams from Ontario and several U21 clubs will also make
the trip to the ISCs for championships in those divisions as
well..more on the U21s next week.

ERIE THIS WEEKEND

In the final tuneup for Midland, several Ontario teams headed to Erie
Pennsylvania this weekend for the Ed McCormick Hall of Fame
Tournament...including Hill United who lost their first tournament last
weekend to the NY Gremlins..Scarborough Force, Jarvis Travellers, and
the KW Cubs...Looking forward to good results from each of these teams...

See you in Owen Sound at the Duncan McLelland ball yard next week..


Dennis




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Dennis Dosman
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