Received: 6/26/06 6:43:51 PM From: "DiAnne Lilburn" <dianne.lilburn(at)softball.org.au>
Subject: Australian Open Women's Team off to Canada Cup -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Media Release 27 June 2006 Australian Open Womens Team off to CanadaCup On Wednesday 28 June, the Australian Open Womens softball team, AussieSpirit, departs Sydney to head forthe Canada Cup as its lead up to final preparations for the InternationalSoftball Federations Womens World Championship. The Canada Cup, one of the best competitive tournaments inthe world and in its 13th year, takes place from 1-9 July in Vancouver and willsee Australia go upagainst some of the worlds best pitchers and hitters the internationalgame has to offer. Head Coach Fabian Barlow is lookingforward to the competition which will give players and the team finalopportunities to experience the highest standard of softball prior to the WorldChampionship with strong opponents like the USA, Japan, Canada and China. The competition will help us continue to work on ourdefensive set-ups and just as importantly our belief systems and team dynamics.It will also give us the opportunity to see our opponents strengths andweaknesses as well as what they perceive ours to be, said Barlow. Barlow is mindful of the tacticsthat will be used by countries competing at the World Championship in Augustsaying that there is a strong possibility that teams will hide some oftheir potential weapons that they will look to bring out in Beijing and we willbe no different. You need to get a good mix of testing out some of your gameplans but having something in reserve to take to the Worlds. Under Barlows leadership, Australia defeatedUSA Elite 3-0 to take home last years Canada Cup and is confident thatthe experienced 17-player team will again put in a strong performance. I am confident that we will win our share of gamesover the course of the two tournaments and commit to the cause every time wetake to the field to represent the country, concluded Barlow. The team, consisting of 9 world championship players and 10Olympians, includes Sandra Allen (Qld), Catherine Bishop (SA), Marissa Carpadios(Qld), Kylie Cronk (Qld), Amanda Doman (Qld), Kelly Gentle (NSW), Kelly Hardie (Qld), Tanya Harding (co-captain) (Qld), Danica Howlett (NSW), Simmone Morrow (NSW), Tracey Mosley (Qld), Stacey Porter (NSW), Kate Quigley (Vic), Danielle Stewart (Qld), Natalie Titcume (Vic), Natalie Ward (co-captain) (NSW) and Belinda Wright (NSW). The Canada Cup willbe held at Softball City, BC Canada and then the Australian team will head to Oklahoma to compete in the US World Cup from 13-17 July 2006. Natalie Ward, Australiassecond most capped player will surpass current most capped player Sally McCreedyon day four of the Canada Cup. ***The team will be visiting the WestmeadChildrens Hospital in Sydney at 5.00pm tonight (27 June, 2006) in conjunction with St George whoare proud supporters of Softball Australia*** AVAILABLE FOR INTERVIEW Fabian Barlow, HeadCoach, Australian Womens team DRAW Round Robin format and date and time of games listed in AEST Day 1 Sunday 2 July 6:30am - Australia vs Venezuela 11:30am Australia vs SchuttHurricanes Day 2 Monday 3 July 6:30am Australia vsWashington Blast Day 3 Tuesday 4 July 8:30am Canada Elite vs Australia Day 4 Wednesday 5 July 1:30pm - Australia vs Japan Denso Club Day 5 Thursday 6 July 11:30am Australia vs AmericanPastime Day 6 Friday 7 July 8:30am Australia vs China Day 7 Saturday 8 July Play Offs Day 8 Sunday 9 July Semi Finals Day 9 Monday 10 July Preliminary Grand Final FOR MORE INFORMATION DiAnne Lilburn National Communications Coordinator SoftballAustralia Suite 4, Ground Floor 38-40 Prospect Street Box Hill, Victoria 3128 T: +61 3 9890 8200 F: +61 3 9890 8295 M: +61 (0) 405 509 674 Formore information visit www.softball.org.au _____________________________________________________________________________ Didyou know that Australia is the world's number onesoftball nation? World number two - Open Women's team(Aussie Spirit), Silver Medallist (Athens, 2004), BronzeMedallists (Sydney 2000 and Atlanta 1996). World number one - Under 19 Men's team(Aussie Colts), three consecutive World Championship titles. World number three - Open Men's team(Aussie Steelers) and Under 19 Women's team (Aussie Pride). Als Fastball List *Email: fastball(at)pmihrm.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEWS-1: http://www.AlsFastball.com/ NEWS-2: http://fastpitchwest.com/alsfastball Visit our New Web Site! http://www.pmihrm.com VIA http://www.webbox.com
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