News (Tournaments)
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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 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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Manchester Sports and Music Festival cancelled
16 January 2014
The Manchester Sport and Music Festival, scheduled for 16-18 May in Salford with softball as one of the featured sports, has been cancelled due to the inability to find and confirm a suitable venue.
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GB Slowpitch selects World Cup squad
14 December 2013
GB Slowpitch Team Head Coach Steve Patterson has announced the 18 players – nine women and nine men – who will travel to Plant City, Florida at the end of January to try to win the third ISF Slowpitch World Cup.
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A source for historic softball and baseball results
12 December 2013
A German sports historian, Stephan Mueller, has put together a website where you can find the results of all Olympic, ISF and ESF national and club team softball competitions ever played (including slowpitch) and all Olympic, European and international baseball competitions.
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Single-sex slowpitch at RAF Lakenheath
14 November 2013
A series of three single-sex slowpitch tournaments for men's and possibly women's teams will be run at RAF Lakenheath during the summer of 2014, and teams from the British softball community are invited to enter.