News (Slowpitch softball)
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Winter Indoor League underway at the University of Portsmouth
21 November 2011
A winter Indoor Softball League is being run during the off-season at the University of Portsmouth, with five teams and a new penalty rule for unequal numbers of male and female players.
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BSF finds new venue for National Championships
15 November 2011
BSF Tournaments Officers Liz Graham and Lesley Morisetti have found a new venue to host national championships. Burleigh Community College, a specialist sports college in Loughborough, Leicestershire, will be the venue for the League All-Star Nationals and Single-Sex Nationals in 2012.
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Slowpitch on the map at the ISF Congress
10 November 2011
John Austin from Softball Ireland is now the ESF's Slowpitch Development Officer, and he chaired the Slowpitch Task Force at the recent ISF Congress in Oklahoma. Click through to read John's account of what happened and what it all means.
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BSF Survey on the National Softball League
8 November 2011
The BSF is conducting a survey on the National Softball League and what teams want to see from tournaments. Click through for more details and the survey link.
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Vote now to select the British Softball Photo Competition winner!
12 October 2011
A total of 126 photographs submitted for the 2011 British Softball Photography Competition have been whittled down to ten. Now it's time for you to vote to select the winner.
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Birmingham Bobcats hold softball evening for local inner-city youth club
11 October 2011
The Birmingham Bobcats Softball Club held a softball training evening for the Waterworks Safe Haven Youth Club at the end of September, in conjunction with Edgbaston Police and with assistance from BSUK.
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Leicester baseball and softball clubs to hold “Come and Try” softball sessions starting October 16
11 October 2011
The opportunity to try out the sport of softball and then play for one of Leicester's softball clubs is now available thanks to National Lottery funding that will support 10 "Come and Try" sessions this autumn run jointly by the Leicester Blue Sox Baseball Club and Leicester Royals Softball Club..
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Cotswold Autumn Tournament basks in Indian Summer sunshine
5 October 2011
Fantastic weather on Sunday, October 2 brought ten teams to Stroud for the annual Cotswold Autumn Tournament. It was a great day of softball, and three of the final games to determine trophies and places were decided by a single run.
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Softball beginners’ sessions to run indoors in Nottingham
2 October 2011
Indoor sessions to attract new players to slowpitch softball will be run in Nottingham on Tuesday evenings for six weeks, from October 11 through November 15 -- and all six sessions will cost only £15!
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Ten-team slowpitch tournament held in Austria
30 September 2011
An example of increasing slowpitch activity in Europe was seen on the weekend of September 24-25 when a ten-team slowpitch tournament, the Linz Slowpitch Cup, was held in the city of Linz, Austria.