News (Tournaments)
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Bristol BS7 take the title at the autumn Cotswold Tournament
6 October 2015
A full complement of 12 teams from Bristol, Coventry, Nottingham, London, Birmingham and Milton Keynes, as well as the local team Cotswold Chaos, competed at the annual Autumn Cotswold Tournament at Archway School in Stroud on Sunday 4 October, on a day when early fog turned to glorious sunshine.
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First World Series win for non-UK team
14 September 2015
Teams have been coming from outside the UK to play in the annual Softball World Series tournament ever since it first began in 1999, but no non-British team has ever won it. That changed on the weekend of 12-13 September at the Imperial College Heston Venue in Cranford, when the UCE Travellers from Germany took the title.
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Liqui-Liqui sponsors Latinoamérica in Softball World Series
1 September 2015
A Venezuelan artisan and cheese products shop based in London, founded by Erika Urvina and called Liqui Liqui, will sponsor the Latinoamérica team in the 2015 Softball World Series tournament, to be played on the weekend of 12-13 September at Imperial College's Heston Venue in Cranford, formerly the British Airways Corcorde Club.
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Edinburgh Festiball celebrates 25th anniversary with whiskey
31 August 2015
A beautiful sunny weekend provided the setting for the 25th anniversary edition of the Edinburgh Festiball, held on 28-29 August at Peffermill Fields in Edinburgh.
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Dutch and Germans spice up World Series
30 August 2015
The 2015 Softball World Series Tournament, to be played at the former British Airways Concorde Club on 12-13 September, will gain added excitement this year from the presence of a Dutch National Slowpitch Team and the German team UCE Travellers, who won the 2014 European Slowpitch Cup.
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London Angels finish fourth in European Women’s Cup Winners Cup
25 August 2015
The London Angels Women's Fastpitch Team, despite bringing only 10 players to the competition and playing seven games in three days, finished fourth in the European Women's Cup Winners Cup, played from August 19-22 in Prague.
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London Cubs finish in Italy with close defeat
15 August 2015
The London Cubs played their final game on Saturday morning at the Massimo Romeo Youth Cup in Collecchio, and though they lost to Moscovia Marino by a single run, 13-12, after a great comeback, the game showed how far the team has come this week.
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London Cubs win two games at Massimo Romeo
14 August 2015
It has been a very long wait for the GB Under-13 girls' fastpitch programme to get a first-ever win against a European team in the annual Massimo Romeo Youth Cup, which began in 2012 -- but then the London Cubs did it twice in one day on Friday.
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GB Juniors bow out in twelve-inning thriller
14 August 2015
The GB Junior Women's Team was eliminated from the WBSC Junior World Championships on Thursday evening in Oklahoma City after a dramatic, gruelling, crazy and heart-breaking 12-inning 6-3 loss to Brazil.
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Playoffs begin at Junior World Championships
13 August 2015
After four days of round-robin play at the WBSC Junior Women's World Championships in Oklahoma City, the line-up for Championship and Placing Playoffs has now been determined, and play in both competitions will begin today.