News (National teams)
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The 2016 Co-ed Slowpitch Softball World Series Tournament
10 October 2015
The Softball World Series is an 18-team Co-ed Slowpitch tournament that takes place each year near the end of the British season, usually on the second or third weekend in September. In 2016, the tournament will be played on the weekend of September 10-11.
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2016 London Cup for Junior and Senior Women’s Fastpitch Teams
10 October 2015
BSUK and the British Softball Federation will host an eight-team tournament for junior and senior women's fastpitch teams at Farnham Park, a dedicated softball and baseball complex near London and Heathrow Airport, on the weekend of 2-3 July 2016. Both national and club teams are welcome to enter.
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GB Women player Chloe Wigington gains US scholarship
6 October 2015
GB Women's Team outfielder Chloe Wigington has been offered a softball scholarship at Lake Land College in Mattoon, Illinois, a two-year NJCAA Division 1 junior college, and will begin her college programme in January 2016.
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The Road to the Tokyo Olympics: GB Softball
1 October 2015
GB Management Committee member Bob Fromer looks at the possibility that the Great Britain Women's Fastpitch Team could qualify for the softball tournament at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, and sets out what it might take for that goal to be achieved.
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First World Series win for non-UK team
14 September 2015
Teams have been coming from outside the UK to play in the annual Softball World Series tournament ever since it first began in 1999, but no non-British team has ever won it. That changed on the weekend of 12-13 September at the Imperial College Heston Venue in Cranford, when the UCE Travellers from Germany took the title.
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BSF seeks Head Coaches for Women and U-19s
10 September 2015
The British Softball Federation and the GB Management Committee is seeking applications for the position of Head Coach for the GB Senior Women's Fastpitch Team and the GB Junior (Under-19) Women's Fastpitch Team.
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Liqui-Liqui sponsors Latinoamérica in Softball World Series
1 September 2015
A Venezuelan artisan and cheese products shop based in London, founded by Erika Urvina and called Liqui Liqui, will sponsor the Latinoamérica team in the 2015 Softball World Series tournament, to be played on the weekend of 12-13 September at Imperial College's Heston Venue in Cranford, formerly the British Airways Corcorde Club.
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Dutch and Germans spice up World Series
30 August 2015
The 2015 Softball World Series Tournament, to be played at the former British Airways Concorde Club on 12-13 September, will gain added excitement this year from the presence of a Dutch National Slowpitch Team and the German team UCE Travellers, who won the 2014 European Slowpitch Cup.
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London Cubs finish in Italy with close defeat
15 August 2015
The London Cubs played their final game on Saturday morning at the Massimo Romeo Youth Cup in Collecchio, and though they lost to Moscovia Marino by a single run, 13-12, after a great comeback, the game showed how far the team has come this week.
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GB Juniors bow out in twelve-inning thriller
14 August 2015
The GB Junior Women's Team was eliminated from the WBSC Junior World Championships on Thursday evening in Oklahoma City after a dramatic, gruelling, crazy and heart-breaking 12-inning 6-3 loss to Brazil.