News (Tournaments)
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Women’s Worlds moves towards decisive games
23 July 2016
The field was whittled down on Friday to six teams that are still in with a chance to win the Gold Medal at the 2016 WBSC Women's World Championship, and a similar weeding process has taken place in other brackets at this massive 31-team event.
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GB Development Team gains experience
22 July 2016
Twelve girls from the GB Under-16 and Under-19 programmes formed a GB Development Team to compete in a Little League Under-19 Europe and Africa Regional Tournament from 14-19 July in Breda, Holland.
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Page Playoff line-ups set at Women’s Worlds
22 July 2016
Final games were played on Thursday in the Championship and Placement round-robins at the 30-team Women's Fastpitch World Championships, and at the end of the evening there was one major surprise.
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GB Men gain a fifth place finish at Euros
16 July 2016
On a rain-shortened final day at the European Men's Fastpitch Championships on Saturday, the GB Men's Team rounded off their tournament with a 2-1 loss to Netherlands to finish fifth overall.
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Ninos Privados take the title at Bristol Main Tournament
8 July 2016
Nineteen teams – 11 at A/B-grade and 8 at C-grade – contested the 2016 Bristol Main Tournament at Clifton College Sports Ground on the weekend of 2-3 July, and the top trophy went to Ninos Privados.
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GB Select win second straight tournament
7 July 2016
The 2016 GB Select Team, made up of players from the GB Senior and Under-19 Women's Fastpitch squads, won their second straight international competition on the weekend of 2-3 July at Farnham Park, going undefeated to take the trophy in the annual London Cup tournament.
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Slowpitch softball in pictures
29 June 2016
The glory of co-ed slowpitch softball in Britain is its variety. You get young players and old, you get all shapes and sizes, you get the professional approach of A-grade and the laid-back casualness of C-grade, all summed up in pictures taken by professional photographer Grant Pritchard. Enjoy!
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Chichester Falcons to host youth fastpitch tournament in August
28 June 2016
Chichester Falcons Junior Softball Club will host a co-ed fastpitch softball tournament for boys and girls aged 13-16 at Oaklands Park in Chichester, West Sussex on Saturday 21 August.
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GB Select Team triumphs at GB Invitational
27 June 2016
A Great Britain Select Team made up of GB Women and GB Under-19 fastpitch players (plus a guest pitcher on Sunday) went undefeated, played some tremendous softball and won a four-team GB Invitational Tournament held over the weekend of 25-26 June at Farnham Park.
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Sheriffs pad series lead at second Nottingham Single-Sex Men’s Tournament
25 June 2016
The second Nottingham Single-Sex Men's Tournament took place on Saturday 18 June. This came only three weeks after Nottingham SS1, where, despite the Sheriffs going unbeaten in the round-robin, it was the Pyros who took the trophy in the Cup Final showdown, coming back from 8-0 down to win the game 12-10. So hopes were high of another fiercely contested battle at SS2.