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World Class Fastpitch game coming to Moorefield

June 17, 2013

Moorefield, ON

Big Time Softball Coming to Moorefield Community Park

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Mark Wednesday June 26 on your calender to come out to the Moorefield Ball Park, on Ball Avenue in the friendly, quaint town of Moorefield,  for a fun family evening of Fastpitch.  The World Class game starting at 8:00 pm will  feature an exhibition Men's game between Hill United Chiefs vs South Perth All stars.  A preliminary youth game with a 6:30 start time will feature a battle of the genders between two U12 teams, the Palmerston Marlins Squirt Select girls and the Belmore Sting OASA boys.  This grass roots game will showcase where the game starts for these World Class Players.   Admission to the games will be by donation.

The Hill United Chiefs are two-time defending American Athletic Union National Champion and the #2 ranked team in the International Softball Congress North American rankings. They feature 2 stars of the Australian Steelers Men's National Team in Adam Folkard and Nick Shailes. Folkard is considered the best men's pitcher in the game today. They are also very deep in Canadian talent with 8 members of Team Canada currently starting on their roster. The Canadian boys hail from Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick and Ontario. The Chiefs were finalists in both the ASA Nationals and the ISC World Championship in 2012.


The South Perth All-Stars will also favour the best in local men's talent from the South Perth Fastball League and is expected to include Brandon Horn from Waterloo and Don Scott from Sebringville, both just back from representing Team Canada at the International Softball Federation World Championships, in New Zealand. The South Perth League is no stranger to Moorefield who fielded a team in this loop for many years. Expect lots of local fan favorites from a league that features teams from Elmira, Breslau, Kitchener, Mitchell, Sebringville ,Milverton, Shakespeare, and the 2012 league champion Wellington Sox.
The battle of the genders game will be sure to entertain with ball chants and rhymes from the girls that will drive the boys crazy.  These two teams are both Select house league teams who are focused on their Provincial Grand Championships in August.  Both teams  participate in tournament play and exhibition games through the summer to hone their skills, each group gets together as a team once a week for practice.  The Belmore Sting are grade 5 & 6 boys selected from the Inter County Softball League and the WOAA league.  Their season play so far has been a Silver Medal in the Mitchell Fastball tournament in early June.


The Palmerston Marlins Girls Squirt Select team is made up of four 10 year olds, seven 11 year olds and one 12 year old.  These 12 girls all play for their home traveling house league centres with 2 from Listowel Minor Ball, 1 from Arthur Minor ball, 5 from Mount Forest Minor ball and 4 from the Drayton Moorefield Giants Minor Softball, their coaching staff are all from the Moorefield area.   Their tournament play so far this season have seen them go 3 wins and 2 loses in pool play in Waterloo in late May and this past weekend at the John Cross Memorial in Cambridge they defended their 2012 Gold medal placement with another Gold Medal finish, scoring 69 runs with only 6 runs against in 4 games.


The Township of Mapleton, Moorefield Athletic Association ( MAA) and the Drayton Moorefield "Giants" Minor Softball Association are partnered in hosting this exciting event with hopes to fill the bleachers with hundreds of fast pitch enthusiasts.  The Moorefield Diner will be on site to feed the crowd during the games from the parks concession stand with choices like ice cream,  burgers and fries to deep fried dill pickles.  Come one come all to see some great ball!

 

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