SASKATOON THREE-NATIONS
CHALLENGE
Schedule:
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Game # |
Time |
Day |
Team |
Score |
Team |
Score |
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July 2
Exhibition |
Melfort, SK |
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A |
6:30 pm |
Wednesday |
USA |
0 |
Canada |
5 |
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B |
8:30 pm |
Wednesday |
USA |
1 |
Canada |
4 |
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3-Nations
Challenge |
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July 3 |
Saskatoon, SK |
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1 |
6:30pm |
Thursday |
USA |
2 |
4 |
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2 |
8:30pm |
Thursday |
USA |
3 |
8 |
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July 4 |
Saskatoon,
SK |
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3 |
6:30pm |
Friday |
Canada |
2 |
Japan |
6 |
|
4 |
8:30pm |
Friday |
Canada |
9 |
USA |
5 |
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July 5 |
Saskatoon, SK |
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|
5 |
6:30pm |
Saturday |
Canada |
8 |
Japan |
1 |
|
6 |
8:30pm |
Saturday |
USA |
6 |
Japan |
13 |
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July 6 |
Saskatoon, SK |
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|
7 |
1:00PM |
Sunday |
Semi Final
2nd Japan |
9 |
3rd
USA |
3 |
|
8 |
4:45PM |
Sunday |
Final
W7 Japan |
0 |
1st
Canada |
1 |
EVENT SCHEDULE
Tournament Games:
Thursday July 3rd
Friday July 4th
Saturday July 5th
– Team/Sponsor Luncheon 11:45 a.m. at the Ramada Hotel
Saturday July 5th
Sunday July 6th
Semi ( 2nd vs 3rd) 1:00
PM - New!
Final ( 1 vs Winner of Semi final ) 3:00 PM - New!
The following exhibition
games were played previously:
Tuesday July 1st - in Pilot
Japan vs Sr. Diamondbacks 1:30
p.m. and 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday July 2nd - in
Japan vs Aspen Interiors 6:30
p.m. and 8:30 p.m.
Wednesday July 2nd - in
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USA Men’s National Team Concludes 3
Nations Challenge with loss to Japan
SASKATOON, Saskatchewan --- The USA Men's National Team closed the 3 Nations
Challenge in Saskatoon, SK on Sunday afternoon with a 9-3 loss to Japan.
Team USA played well holding a lead for the first four innings of the
game. The game was played in cool rainy conditions and included two rain
delays of over one hour. Team USA
finished the tournament at 0-5.
“Even
though our won loss record does not show it, this was a highly successful trip
for the team,” said USA head coach Pete Turner.
“We brought a developmental team to Canada with a lot of young hitters
and pitchers. We were competitive with
the Japanese and Canadian teams that will be participating in next years
World Championships."
The
U.S. opened the game with three runs in the first on walks to Chase Turner
Stockton, Calif.) and Kyle Magnusson (Salt Lake City, Utah), and then a
three-run line drive off the scoreboard by Frank DeGroat, Jr. (Ringwood, N.J.).
Starting
pitcher Travis Price (Corona, Calif.) held the Japanese through the first three
innings giving up only a solo home run in the bottom of the third. The
Japanese tied the game in the fourth on two singles and a walk combined with a
throwing error by the Americans.
Price gave up two more runs in the fifth before giving way to relief pitcher
Cody Thomson (Herriman, Utah). Team USA had great scoring chances in the
third and sixth inning, but a lack of timely hitting and great defense by the
Japanese held the Americans scoreless. Magnusson led the Americans again
going 2-for-2 and ended the tournament hitting ..510. Catcher DeGroat Jr.
also went 2-for-3 with all three USA RBI.
The Americans will conduct a try out camp this fall for the 2009 National Team
that will compete in next years ISF Men's World Championships to be held in
Saskatoon, SK..
Team Canada won the 3 Nations Challenge with a 1-0 win over Japan on Sunday
evening.
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Winning Pitcher Kazutaka
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Pitcher Travis Price
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 7th, 2008
Canada Defeats Japan to Win
ThreeNations Challenge!
(Saskatoon, SK) - Team Canada was
thebeneficiary of strong pitching and timely hitting to come out on the right
sideof a 1-0 decision in what proved to be a thriller in the championship game
ofthe Three Nations Challenge at Bob Van Impe Park in Saskatoon.
Thewinning run scored in the bottom of the seventh inning when right fielder
Jeff Ellsworth (St. Lawrence, PEI) drilled a one ball, two strike offering from
losing Japanese pitcher Tatsuya Hamaguchi into the gap in left center field
fora game winning double, sending home Ian Fehrman (Townsend, ON) who led off
theinning with a single that deflected off Hamaguchi’s glove and past
secondbaseman Yu Nishimori. Fehrman had moved to second on Craig
Crawford’s(Kitchener, ON) second sacrifice bunt of the game. The single was
Fehrman’ssecond of the game.
Starting pitcher Todd Martin
(Bracebridge,ON) combined with Saskatchewan boys Trevor Ethier (Saskatoon, SK)
and DeanHoloien (Melfort, SK) to limit the Japanese to just one hit, an infield
chopperby Shuhei Suzuki in the sixth inning. Holoien was able to get his hand
on the ball but it was just a bit too high to field cleanly. Holoien went on to
starta nice 1-6-3 double play on a comebacker from next batter Hiroku
Yokoyama.. Ethier had earlier pleased the hometown crowd by sending down
the sidein order in both the fourth and fifth innings.
Other Canadian hits came off the
bats of Jody Eidt (Mitchell, ON), Rob Giesbrecht (Landmark, ON) and Derek
Mayson (NorthVancouver, BC).
Holoien picked up the win, striking
outthree in his two innings of work while Ethier also struck out three in his
twoinnings and Martin five in his three innings. The Canadian hitters did
notstrike out during the game.
Congratulations to the host
committee forstaging a well organized tournament and helping to keep things
exciting on thefield and smoothly run behind the scenes.
The Canadian Senior Men’s National
Teamwill host the 2009 ISF Senior Men’s World Championships at the same
venue inSaskatoon next summer, from July 17-26, 2009.
For more information, please contact
Gilles LeBlanc
Manager: Marketing and
CommunicationsServices
Softball Canada
(613) 523-3386 ext 3105</