OKLAHOMA CITY - The USA Softball Men’s National Team player pool will travel to Altamonte Springs, Fla. next week to compete in a Men’s Fast Pitch International tournament conducted by the International Sports Group Union (ISGU), the Amateur Softball Association (ASA) of America and USA Softball announced today. The USA Men are using the event as a player evaluation opportunity. Twenty-five athletes will compete for Team USA and make up two teams in the Florida tournament. From the 25 athletes, a final roster of 17 will be chosen later in the year to compete in an International Softball Federation (ISF) World Championship and Pan American Games qualifying event to be held in Parana, Argentina October 25-November 3, 2014.
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Click here to see the event page on www.USASoftball.com  with Team USA Roster
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The two USA teams will begin the 31-team tournament in Pools A and B. Pool play games will take place on Thursday and Friday with teams then being seeded into a single-elimination bracket scheduled to start on Saturday. The semifinals will take place at 11 a.m. EST on Sunday with the Championship slated for 1 p.m. EST. Â All games will take place at the Seminole Softball Complex and Merrill Park in Altamonte Springs.
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Among the 31 teams competing in this weekend’s tournament are international teams from Argentina, Panama, Puerto Rico and Venezuela, as well as other teams from around the United States.
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Live stats, scores, photos and recaps can be found at www.USASoftball.com throughout the event. Follow ASA/USA Softball on FB, www.facebook.com/ASAUSASoftball, for in-game updates as well as on Twitter, www.twitter.com/ASAUSASoftball.Â
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About ASA The Amateur Softball Association, founded in 1933, is the National Governing Body of softball in the United States and a member of the United States Olympic Committee. The ASA has become one of the nation’s largest sports organizations and now sanctions competition in every state through a network of 76 local associations. The ASA has grown from a few hundred teams in the early days to over 200,000 teams today, representing a membership of more than three million. For more information on the ASA, visit http://www.asasoftball.com/.  About USA Softball USA Softball is the brand created, operated and owned by the ASA that links the USA Men’s, Women’s, Junior Boys’ and Junior Girls’ National Team programs together. USA Softball is responsible for training, equipping and promoting these four National Teams to compete in international and domestic competitions. The USA Softball Women’s National Team is one of only two women’s sports involved in the Olympic movement to capture three consecutive gold medals at the Olympic Games since 1996. The U.S. women have also won nine World Championship titles as well as claimed six World Cup of Softball titles. For more information about USA Softball, please visit http://www.usasoftball.com/.
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