News (Tournaments)
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GLSML Firstball: great tournament, shame about the spelling!
1 June 2013
The GLSML Firstball for 2013 took place on Saturday 18 May at a surprisingly sunny Riverside Lands in Chiswick with eight fully-fenced pitches, all but one to a distance of 250 to 270 feet. There were three grades of play and Agents, Fuzzy Ducks and Meteors 2 took the trophies.
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Only two places left for Leeds Tournament
28 May 2013
Only two places -- one Comp and one Rec -- are still available for the 2013 Leeds Tournament, scheduled for 29-30 June at brand new facilities in Grange Park, Wetherby.
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Meteors hold their own in Zeist but lose the ‘Battle of Britain’
24 May 2013
Meteors hold their own in Zeist but lose the 'Battle of Britain' The London Meteors Fastpitch Team headed to Zeist in the Netherlands on the weekend of May 17-20 to take part in the 30th anniversary of the annual high-level men's fastpitch Zeisterslot Tournament, and held their own against very stiff opposition.
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ASA slowpitch coaches plan UK tour
22 May 2013
Two high-level American slowpitch coaches with national and international experience will tour the UK from 20 June through 3 July to provide coach-training for team representatives from slowpitch leagues around the country. The tour is being supported by the American Amateur Softball Association (ASA) and the British Softball Federation.
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Solent League has a busy April
21 May 2013
The outdoor season has now started in the Solent Softball League, but before that the league had a very busy April.
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Discount on offer for Cotswold Autumn Tournament
19 May 2013
Mike LeFevre, who runs the recreational Spring and Autumn Cotswold Tournaments in Stroud, is offering a £5 discount off entry at the Autumn tournament for any team entering the Spring Tournament, scheduled for Sunday 30 June..
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Blue Steel leads NSL standings after Diamond 1
13 May 2013
Blue Steel won six games and lost only once during round-robin stage at the first Diamond Series tournament on the weekend of 11-12 May at Farnham Park to take an early lead in the 2013 National Softball League standings.
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Time running out to register for the Single-Sex Slowpitch Spring Ball
7 May 2013
The BSUK Single-Sex Spring Ball tournament for men's and women's slowpitch teams will be held on Sunday 19 May at Riverside Lands Playing Fields in Chiswick, and time is running out to register your team for the event.
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The Firm holds its own in Pardubice
2 May 2013
The Firm, the London Advertising Softball League's 2010 'rookie team' that regularly plays C-grade tournaments throughout the UK, recently decided that a pre-season tour to Pardubice in the Czech Republic might be a good way to warm up for the coming season. And the results were interesting, to say the least, as The Firm reached the final.
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British Airways Tournament now open for entries
2 May 2013
The annual British Airways Tournament at the BA Concorde Club in Cranford, near Heathrow Airport, will run on June 15-16 for NSL, B-grade and C-grade teams, and is open for entries. Demand is likely to be high.