Two Ontario cities - - - two international fastball tournaments - - - and just one month until the first pitches are thrown - - - - - the countdown continues for the twin events set for Kitchener/Waterloo, Ontario beginning Friday, August 9.

One of the events is being contested for the 56th time; the other is a brand-new entrant on the international sports scene.

The field for the 40-team INTERNATIONAL SOFTBALL CONGRESS WORLD TOURNAMENT (August 9 - 17) is filling rapidly as Travel League Championships are being determined and Area Tournaments are being played. Contestants will play a round robin format in eight pools of five teams each with the top two teams from each pool advancing to a playoff for the world championship.

As of this date, the following teams (with the states from which they hail) have already qualified for the “big show” - - the premier men’s fastpitch tournament in the world each season:

Waterloo Halllman Twins (Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario) Host Team
Broken Bow Travelers (Broken Bow, Nebraska) Defending Champions
Imaging Solutions Knights (Fargo, North Dakota)
Wisconsin County Classics (Wisconsin)
County Concrete (Marathon, Wisconsin)
Springfield Chaos (Springfield, Illinois)
Dolan and Murphy (Aurora, Illinois)
Legacy Communications Bandits (Pueblo, Colorado)
Czech Republic National Team (Czech Republic)
FSR Portable Storage (Lehi, Utah)
New York Spirit (Amsterdam, New York)
ATMI (Aurora, Illinois)
St. Joe Frontier Casino Players (St. Joseph, Missouri)
Ashland Coors Light (Ashland, Ohio)
Luna’s Towing (Tucson, Arizona)
Fedlock Falcons (Arlington, Virginia)
North Americans (S. Sioux City, Nebraska)
Lafayette Pub (St. Louis, MO)
Owen Sound Selects (Owen Sound, Ontario)
Victoria Travellers Inn Smokers (Victoria, British Columbia)
New Mexico Sun Devils (Albuquerque, New Mexico)
Manitoba Wesman Alliance (Portage la Prairie, Manitoba)
Vancouver Grey Sox (Vancouver, British Columbia)
Quad City Sox (Davenport, Iowa)
All Seasons (Brienigsville, Pennaylvania)
National Investors (St. Joseph, Missouri)

Other teams will be added as Area Tournaments are concluded during the course of the next three weeks. The field for the World Tournament will be updated as other teams qualify.


The field is complete for the inaugural ISC II tournament which will be contested August 13 - 17.

Twenty teams will slug it out in four pools of five teams each prior to a playoff for the ISC II championship.

Teams who have qualified for this first-ever international event include:

K W Pride (Ontario) Host Team
Carpetowne Rugmen (Pennsylvania)
Millington Up To Date Painting (Michigan)
Eastside Beverage (Minnesota)
Keating Fitness Centers (Pennsylvania)
Tavistock Merchants (Ontario)
Tiffany’s Food and Spirit (Michigan)
Orr Park Drillers (Ohio)
Marquette Fence (Michigan)
Alviston Indians (Ontario)
Kenosha Earl’s Club (Wisconsin)
Denmark Merchants (Wisconsin)
DeKalb Dusty Rhodes (Illinois)
Bob Riding’s Ford (Illinois)
Colorado Rage (Colorado)
Sycamore Hank and Associates (Ohio)
Reasnor RPM’s (Iowa)
West Michigan Merchants (Michigan)
Peterborough Champs Sports Bar (Ontario)
Blenheim Home Run Fastball Club (Ontario)

The stakes are high; the lineup is taking shape; the fastpitch softball world will be zoned in on the twin cities of Kitchener and Waterloo, Ontario, as the finest in the world tee it up for the two titles awarded by the INTERNATIONAL SOFTBALL CONGRESS.

July 9, 2002

By: Gordon Wise - - - 
ISC Information Officer
Mailto: sgwise@woh.rr.com
http://www.iscfastpitch.com