Received: 9/1/06 3:47:46 AM From: Vance <vanf(at)ihug.co.nz>
Subject: Great Britain deliver blow to White Sox -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Great Britain deliver blow to White Sox Friday September 1st 2006 The New Zealand Community Trust White Sox have seen their play offchances take a dive at the 2006 Womens Softball World Championshipstoday on the back of a 2-1 loss against Great Britain. Going into the match up with Great Britain the White Sox were well awareof the importance of a victory in regard to keeping their playoff chancesalive but they couldnt convert that into a win in Beijing, China today. It a tight game the fatal blow for the White Sox came in the final inningwhen the New Zealand team were three outs away from victory. In the bottom of the seventh inning with New Zealand holding a one runadvantage Great Britain scored two runs to win the game. New Zealandsonly run in the game came in the fourth inning when Katrina Stockfordscored on a hit by Melanie Hulme. After the game White Sox coach Mike Walsh reflected on the teams lack ofhitting which has been an issue for the side for the whole tournament.Against Great Britain today the White Sox managed just two hits in thegame. "We played the best we could. We have had problems with hitting thewhole week but the loss still hurts. They players feel very low now, andthe tournament is over for us," said Walsh. For New Zealand Ali Arnold was on the mound for the full game andpitched well giving up five hits and one walk while taking sixstrikeouts. "Ali had a good game but for that last inning. We should have scoredmore runs for her, we need better hitting skills," said coachWalsh. The White Sox have one more game to play at the world championshipstomorrow afternoon against DPR Korea at 2pm (NZ time). In other results from the penultimate day of round robin play Canadadefeated South Africa 12-0, Italy beat DPR Korea 1-0 and Netherlandsrecorded a forfeit 7-0 win over Colombia. By SNZ Media Liaison: Kelly Mitchell * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.softball.org.nz/ *mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Cheers Vance Softball New Zealand web master. * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Al's Fastball News *Email: fastball(at)pmihrm.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEWS-1: http://www.AlsFastball.com/ NEWS-2: http://fastpitchwest.com/alsfastball VIA http://www.webbox.com
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