Received: 7/4/07 9:08:19 AM From: "Gilles Leblanc" <gleblanc(at)softball.ca>
Subject: Canada continues to win at the Canada Cup -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 4th, 2007 Canada continues to win at the Canada Cup (Surrey, BC) Canada continued its dominance at the Canada Cup in Softball City, BC after winning its fourth straight game by run rule. After falling behind early, the Canadians stormed back quickly to defeat the Georgia Wilson Selects by a score of 8-1 after five innings. Georgia opened the scoring in the top of the first inning, taking advantage of a Canadian error and a hit to bring home the first run of the game on an RBI groundout. However, Canada immediately replied in the bottom half of the inning by scoring five runs of their own, two of them on Selects errors. Ashley Van Boxmeer (Orange, California) hit a two-out double with the bases loaded to clear the basepaths and push the score to 5-1. Canada added single runs in the second, third and fifth innings to enforce the run rule. Sheena Lawrick (Calgary, AB) and Noemie Marin (Acton-Vale, QC) contributed two hits each to the offensive effort. We are really trying to take our offense to another level and making adjustments in the box is the first step says Head Coach Lori Sippel. I felt that the team did a nice job competing at the plate and adjusted well to the three pitchers faced. Defensively, Dione (Meier) and Tamra (Howren) settled in and finished strong. In five innings of work, starting pitcher Dione Meier (Saskatoon, SK) gave up just two hits while striking out eight Georgia Wilson Select players. One of the two hits she allowed was off the bat of Canadian Universiade Team member Jennifer Yee, who is playing for Georgia in this years event. Canada (4-0) takes on Venezuela (2-2) on Wednesday night at 6:30 pm at Softball City in Surrey BC. Venezuela is one of the teams that will compete in the softball tournament at the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil later this month, from July 23rd to 29th. -SC- For more information, please contact: Gilles LeBlanc Sport/Recreation Management Intern MBA in Sport and Recreation Management University of New Brunswick Softball Canada Coordinator, Marketing and Communications gleblanc(at)softball.ca (613) 523-3386 ext 3105 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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