News (Fastpitch softball)
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27 teams head to Birmingham for the Single-Sex Slowpitch Nationals
25 June 2018
The BSF's annual Single-Sex National Championships will take place this coming weekend, on 30 June and 1 July, at the Moor Lane Sports Ground in Perry Barr, Birmingham, with 27 teams taking part.
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GB Fastpitch Men heading for Europeans
18 June 2018
The GB Men's Slowpitch Team has just come back from the Czech Republic with a European Championship gold medal, and later this week the GB Men's Fastpitch Team will head for the same country aiming for World Championship qualification.
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Wartburg College proves tough going for GBFL
3 June 2018
On Friday evening 1 June, just before the last day of the Great Britain Fastpitch League season, and then again on Sunday 3 June, a team made up mostly of GBFL players took on a travelling team from Wartburg College, an NCAA Division III school from Iowa in the United States, in a series of three exhibition games at Farnham Park.
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GBFL titles go to Angels and Meteors Red
2 June 2018
An exciting final day in the 2018 Great Britain Fastpitch League season on Saturday 2 June at Farnham Park produced winners in the Women's and Men's Divisions – but only after both title races came down to the wire.
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Titles up for grabs in final week of GBFL play
28 May 2018
With just one day of play left in the 2018 Great Britain Fastpitch League season – coming up on Saturday 2 June at Farnham Park – the race for the title in both the Women's and Men's Divisions could not be tighter.
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GB Women’s Softball receives private donations
16 May 2018
There seems to be very little chance that the GB Women's Fastpitch Softball programme will receive any help from the British government in our quest to qualify for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. But the programme has recently received two generous private donations that will definitely make a difference.
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Upsets and rain dominate Week 4 in the GBFL
14 May 2018
It wasn't a very good day for teams at the top of the standings in the Women's and Men's Divisions of the Great Britain Fastpitch League when the players convened for the fourth Saturday of the season on 12 May at Farnham Park.
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GB Under-13s select team for Europe
11 May 2018
Following trials and training sessions indoors in March and outdoors at the end of April, coaches for the GB Under-13 girls fastpitch programme have selected the players that will compete in the 2018 European Massimo Romeo Youth Trophy (EMRYT) in Italy in August.
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Groups set for Women’s World Championship
9 May 2018
The World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) has announced the groups and schedule for the 16th Women's Softball World Championship this summer in Chiba, Japan, where the GB Women will join 15 other top softball countries from five continents.
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Close games feature at full GBFL weekend
9 May 2018
The Great Britain Fastpitch League played its only full weekend of the season on Saturday and Sunday, 5-6 May, at Farnham Park, and after a number of close games in both the Women's and Men's Divisions, the shape of the title races became a little clearer.