Open trials for the GB Co-ed Slowpitch Team will be held on Sunday, October 24 at the National Training Centre at Upper Heyford. The fact that European Slowpitch Championships will be played again in 2011 should provide an extra incentive for triallists.
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The competition is getting tighter and tighter in the London Fastpitch Softball League (LFSL), as shown by the close and exciting games played at the league's fourth mini-tournament on Saturday, August 28 at Old Deer Park in Richmond. The Finals Day on September 18 should be a hard-fought affair!more
The weather was mainly dry and sunny for the 20th anniversary edition of the Edinburgh Festiball, played at Peffermill Park on Bank Holiday weekend, August 28-29. Thirty-six teams took part in four levels of competition, with Slammers winning the top one, the Pentlands Cup.
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The BSUK London Indoor Softball League will begin on Saturday 16 October and continue every Saturday for 10 weeks into December. This exciting alternate form of slowpitch softball is an ideal way to stay in shape and enjoy quick-footed fun through the autumn months.
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GB Slowpitch Team Head Coach Mark Saunders has informed the BSF of his decision to stand down from the position. But Mark will be happy to stay on until a new Head Coach is appointed and the handover is satisfactorily completed.
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The Coventry Rocks Team and Coventry Zoo Leagues are celebrating the news that they have been awarded a total of £3,705 in Sport Unlimited grants from the region's County Sport Partnership for three programmes that will begin in late September.
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The BSF, BSUK, BASU and the fastpitch community are combining to run a fastpitch umpire training course in September to create a larger pool of umpires for the increasing amount of fastpitch play in the UK. The course is open to anyone interested.
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The Belfast Aviators Softball Club is hosting its first-ever eight-team international tournament in Belfast, Northern Ireland on the weekend of September 11-12.
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A second-place finish in the fifth and last National Softball League competition at the Bristol Main Tournament on August 21-22 was more than enough to give H2O the 2010 NSL title. In the race for the eighth and final place in the Premier Nationals, Manchester Marvels just squeezed in ahead of London Legends.
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BSUK created the Sefton Softball League in Greater Manchester this summer as part of its efforts to expand participation, and BSUK National Development Manager John Mills decided to attend the sessions. Things have gone well, and on August 15, the league sent a representative team, the Sefton Stingers, to the Manchester Softball League's Rookie Tournament. Click through to read John's account of the big day.
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The European Softball Federation (ESF) is creating a new website that will show top softball games from around the world as well as hosting local softball videos. And to start things off, the Grand Finals from the European Women's A Pool Cup and Cup-Winners Cup were streamed live on August 21.
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The International Softball Federation (ISF) has again turned down a suggestion from the International Baseball Federation (IBAF) that the two sports should unite in trying to regain Olympic status.
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By losing their final game at the European Women's Cup-Winners A Pool Cup to Viladecans of Spain on August 20 by a score of 5-3, the London Angels Women's Fastpitch Team finished in tenth place and without a win at the competition, and will be relegated to the B Pool for 2011.
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Saturday, August 21 – The Richings Park Penguins finished the European Women's B Pool Cup Tournament in San Marino on a winning note yesterday with an 8-5 comeback win over the Barracudas from Denmark. With three teams finishing on the same number of points, runs conceded left the Penguins in eighth place out of 11 teams.more
