News (National teams)
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GB Slowpitch players play for places
19 April 2015
Most of the players recently selected to the 2015 GB Slowpitch Team pool turned up at Farnham Park on Saturday 18 April to play the GB Challenge Tournament, a high-level competition that gave the coaches a last look before they select the squad to play in European Championships this summer.
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New players added to GB Slowpitch squad
19 April 2015
Following a series of trial events held over the winter, GB Slowpitch Team Head Coach Stephen Patterson has announced the addition of nine new players to the GB programme.
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Ten-team GBFL starts play on 25 April
17 April 2015
The Great Britain Fastpitch League (GBFL), with ten female, male and mixed teams playing in two divisions, will begin its season on Saturday 25 April at Farnham Park and will play on four more Saturdays in May plus a finals weekend in September.
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GB Junior Team wins Paris tournament
2 April 2015
It was a great weekend for two mixed GB Under-19 Fastpitch Teams at the Tournoi des Expos in Ermont, near Paris, on the weekend of 14-15 March. GB2 won the tournament, and GB1 rallied from 6-0 down to win the plate competition.
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Bridget Cameron to umpire at Junior World Championships
20 March 2015
Bridget Cameron, a BASU umpire who relocated from Brisbane, Australia to Edinburgh at the end of 2013, has been selected to represent Great Britain as an umpire at the 11th WBSC Junior Women's Fastpitch World Championships in Oklahoma City, USA in August.
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GB Softball sends two mixed teams to Paris
11 March 2015
Two mixed GB youth fastpitch teams will be travelling to Ermont, near Paris, on the weekend of 14-15 March to play in a tournament organised by the Ermont Expos Softball Commission.
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Schedule set for Men’s Worlds in Canada
10 March 2015
The pools and official tournament schedule have been released for the 2015 WBSC Men's Fastpitch World Championships in Saskatoon, Canada, to be played from 26 June to 5 July, where the GB Men's Team will be looking for a playoff place.
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GB Men gain place at the 2015 Worlds
23 February 2015
The GB Men's Fastpitch Team, which narrowly missed out on qualifying for the 2015 World Championships last summer, has now been granted a wild card place in the tournament by the International Softball Federation.
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GB Softball seeks help in two key areas
12 February 2015
The GB Management Committee, which oversees GB National Team programmes and fastpitch development on behalf of the BSF, is looking for a Treasurer to run its bank accounts and a person to coordinate merchandise sales.
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GB teams draw the short straw again in Europe
8 February 2015
Draws were held at the European Softball Federation (ESF) Congress in Dublin on Saturday 7 February to determine pools at European Championships this summer – and as seems to happen far too often, GB teams have drawn the short straw.