News (Slowpitch softball)
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Birmingham Softball League is here to stay!
29 January 2014
2013 was the first season for the new Birmingham Softball League (BSL) and while it was hard work for those doing the organisation, with inevitable teething problems and a team folding half way through the season, the league managed to run successfully for 15 weeks.
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GB Slowpitch shut down in World Cup final
26 January 2014
The GB Slowpitch Team will be bringing a silver medal home from the ISF Slowpitch World Cup that ended in Plant City, Florida on Sunday 26 January, rather than the hoped-for gold. The GB offense was shut down in the final by the USA Ink Daddyz, who were 18-3 winners.
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GB Slowpitch powers to World Cup final
26 January 2014
The GB Slowpitch Team powered past both of the American teams in two wildly contrasting games at the ISF Slowpitch World Cup in Plant City, Florida on Saturday afternoon and evening to earn themselves a place in Sunday's final.
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GB Slowpitch ends round-robin with a win
25 January 2014
The GB Co-ed Slowpitch Team had the expected easy win on Saturday morning against the Turks & Caicos Islands by 23-4 to wrap up round-robin play with a 5-2 record at the ISF Slowpitch World Cup in Plant City, Florida. The playoffs begin this afternoon.
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GB Slowpitch loses extra inning thriller
25 January 2014
The finest game so far at the ISF Slowpitch World Cup was an eight-inning thriller played in bitter cold on Friday evening between Great Britain and the USA Ink Daddyz, and GB came out on the wrong end of a 9-8 scoreline.
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GB Slowpitch grabs another easy win
24 January 2014
The GB Slowpitch Team started off Day 2 at the ISF Slowpitch World Cup in Plant City, Florida on Friday with another easy win, this time over Bulgaria. But the GB Team will face an important game this evening with a bearing on their playoff hopes.
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GB Slowpitch looks towards playoff run
24 January 2014
GB Slowpitch looks towards playoff run Three easy wins and one tough loss on Thursday, the first day of the ISF Slowpitch World Cup, has left the players and coaches on GB Slowpitch Team with a good idea of what they need to do to get to the final and win the competition.
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GB Slowpitch opens World Cup with win over Canada
23 January 2014
The 3rd ISF Slowpitch World Cup got under way on Thursday morning in temperatures more suited to Britain than Florida, but the GB Slowpitch Team made it a successful start with a 13-3 win over Canada.
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Early season slowpitch tournament in Pardubice
22 January 2014
An early-season co-ed slowpitch tournament, the Slava Hosana, will be held in Pardubice in the Czech Republic over the weekend of 19-20 April 2014, and British teams are invited.
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BSF Nationals Working Group makes progress
17 January 2014
The idea of a BSF Nationals Working Group was first mooted at the 2013 BSF AGM, and volunteers representing a cross-section of softball were invited to take part. The group finally met on Saturday 11 January 2014 in London, and began to set out a vision for softball's National Championships.