News (Slowpitch softball)
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Bristol team takes home the Cup trophy at the Cardiff Firstball
25 April 2023
On a surprisingly cold morning in South Wales on Saturday 22 April, softballers from all along the M4 gathered once again at Cardiff Harlequins Rugby Club for the annual Cardiff Firstball Tournament.
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BaseballSoftballUK Fully-Loaded Slowpitch Cup returns for two dates in 2023
28 March 2023
It’s back! The BaseballSoftballUK Slowpitch Cup returns for 2023 with a special Easter Monday event, and the traditional Fully-Loaded tournament returning in August – two great opportunities to play this special version of slowpitch softball!
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EMILY TOMKINS (née CLIFFORD)
24 February 2023
Friday 24 February -- The British softball community lost an outstanding player and person at far too young an age when Emily Tomkins, who most softball people will know better as Emily Clifford, died earlier this week from cancer.
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Jersey Co-ed Slowpitch Tournament celebrates 30 years of island softball
16 January 2023
The Jersey Softball Association will celenrate 30 years of softball on the island in 2023 and 30 years of the Jersey Softball Association, and one of the celebrations to mark the occasion will be the 30th Anniversary Jersey Co-ed Slowpitch Tournament on the weekend of 29-30 April.
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2022: Year in Review
30 December 2022
A look back at British baseball and softball in 2022!
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In-person 2023 Coach Summit set for 28-29 January at Bisham Abbey
5 December 2022
The 2023 Coach Summit, the UK’s biggest baseball and softball coaching event of the year, will take place live and in-person at Bisham Abbey National Sports Centre near High Wycombe on 28-29 January.
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Bristol Wreck Tournament thrives in a heat wave
17 September 2022
Whatever softball was played over the Bristol Wreck weekend on 13-14 August at a parched Somerdale Pavilion in Keynsham, there was only one topic pf conversation: playing in an extreme heatwave, as temperatures rarely dropped below 90 degrees Fahrenheit.
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Americans top GB Futures to win sixth Softball World Series title
12 September 2022
The 2022 Softball World Series Tournament was played at Farnham Park on the weekend of 10-11 September, and there was a familiar winner, with the Yanks, representing Americans in the UK, defeating GB Futures in the Trophy final.
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“17 years of hurt are over”: H2O finally wins the National Championship
4 September 2022
It’s been 17 years since the A-grade team H2O was founded, and there have been a lot of near misses in National Championship finals over that time. But this year was different, as H2O pulled away from Chromies in the final of the 2022 NSL1 National Championship for a coveted 17-8 win.
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Bristol and Jersey teams take top prizes at Edinburgh Festiball
30 August 2022
Glorious wall-to-wall sunshine provided the backdrop to the 31st Edinburgh Festiball, contested by 31 teams from the UK and Europe at Meadowmill Sports Centre on 27-28 August. A team from Jersey and two teams from Bristol took the top prizes.