Softball 2017 - 2018 Discussion Thread

[phelps 8,293]

Edited August 17, 2024 by Sindo

[dareza 911]

Netherlands is new European champion. Silver for Italy, bronze for Great Britain. Final standing here: http://competition.europeansoftball.org/2017/bollate/standing.php

Edited July 2, 2017 by dareza

[intoronto 6,461]

 (as hosts) qualify for the 2019 Pan American Games women's tournament.

[intoronto 6,461]

men faily to qualify for the 2019 Pan American Games! This is a complete shocker as Canada has won every single gold medal in the history of the sport at the Pan Am Games (for men).

[mrv86 3,241]

1 hour ago, intoronto said:

men faily to qualify for the 2019 Pan American Games! This is a complete shocker as Canada has won every single gold medal in the history of the sport at the Pan Am Games (for men).

 

Wow, a huge upset indeed, and of course, Canada will be missed in the competition; which brings me to think that why PASO can increase quotas for Softball to 8 teams by gender instead of adding Bodybuilding and Poomsae Tae kwon do

[dcro 10,210]

USA Invitational Cup is going on right now.

 

Results, standings, live streams can be accessed here.

[dcro 10,210]

And that's a wrap. Canadians beat Czechs 10:0 after 4 innings (and mercy rule).

[phelps 8,293]

as posted in the Baseball thread...

the tournament between the top 6 teams of the last European Championships named Super Six starts tomorrow also for what concerns Softball...

 

infos and online coverage are reported in the Baseball thread linked above...

 

the Softball teams taking part into this tournament are:

 

Czech Republic

Great Britain

Greece

Italy

Netherlands

Russia

[phelps 8,293]

Super Six

 

Day #1 Results

 

Czech Republic b. Italy 3-2

Great Britain b. Greece 7-3

Netherlands b. Russia 13-1

[phelps 8,293]

surprising loss by Italy...

but it's obvious that this tournament is not considered very important by our team, especially after the very successful World Champs and the long domestic season...