Bologna – Parma stayed away from an overwhelming 3-0 deficit in the Italian Series on Thursday with a 6-0 win over Bologna to bring the series to 2-1. Roberto Corradini scattered 6 hits in a complete game shutout to give Parma its first victory in the series Gianni Falchi Stadium.
Bologna, seeking its second straight title, allowed 4 unearned run on a couple throwing errors. Parma scored 3 runs in both the 2nd and 8th innings, but Bologna never threatened.
Both teams combined for only 1 extra base hit the entire night, a double by Parma’s Leonardo Zileri.
So far the visiting team has won all 3 games.
Game 4 will be Friday night at Falchi Stadium.
Photo courtesy of Ferrini/FIBS
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Baseball Event for Women in Canada
OTTAWA-Nova Scotia has once again hosted a successful girl’s instructional clinic. For the third year in a row a clinic has been provided to teach baseball skills and also increase the profile of the sport amongst females in the province. This year the event was held in Bedford, a small community that is just outside of Halifax where over 150 girls participated.
“We had 151 girls registered and then we had walk-ups,” explained event organizer and Baseball Nova Scotia Treasurer, Holly Lapierre. “I’m still plugging all of the names into our registration database.”
With the amount of participants that registered for the event, the day had to be split into two sessions based on age. The morning group was for girls aged 4 to 9 and the afternoon group had 10 to 16 year olds. A great feature to the event is that it is open to any female interesting in participating regardless of their baseball experience.
“Anyone is welcome to attend,” said Lapierre. “It doesn’t matter if you have never played before or aren’t even registered, c’mon out!”
When the morning session got underway the young girl’s rotated through stations that were coordinated by Bantam girl’s provincial team coach, Stephen Benjamin. Benjamin had the help of player’s from his provincial team to provide instruction to the young ball players and give them a glimpse of what kind of opportunities are available for female baseball players in the province.
The top quality instruction didn’t stop there as Paul Prince, head coach of the Senior Women’s provincial team also provided instruction along with two of his assistant coaches and four members of the Senior Women’s team. The highlight for everyone involved was a guest coach appearance by former Toronto Blue Jay and Canadian National Team player, Rob Ducey.
“I had a wonderful time here in Halifax this weekend,” said Ducey. “The day was a great way to introduce baseball to girls and re-enforce baseball skills for those girls who have already been playing.
Ducey was able to rotate around the field and act as a ‘floating instructor’ and filled in with the various stations that were set up. The girls were also treated to a signing period where Ducey signed autographs and was able to interact with participants.
“Overall, it is a great way for grass roots programs to get started and continue to develop girl’s baseball in Canada,” noted Ducey.
Ducey’s presence and the event itself caused some well deserved media attention and it also gave a telling sign of what the participants thought of having a former pro like Ducey attend the event.
“One of the girls that were interviewed on TV was asked what it meant to have (Rob) Ducey at the event,” explained Lapierre. “She said I had instruction from a former major league baseball player, how awesome is that!”
Lapierre was also happy to report that she received numerous notes from parents of participants thanking her for organizing the clinic and relaying how much of a positive experience it was for their daughters.
“Parents have told me that it was great to see the girls get this much attention, guidance and encouragement,” said Lapierre. “They also told me how much their daughters are looking forward to playing baseball now and in the future for those who are new to the sport.
She also anticipates that because of the feedback she has received the event is headed for bigger and better times in the future. Some families travelled as far as two hours away to attend the event proving that the span the event and the sport has is felt throughout the province.
“The first year the girl’s were from only two associations (Hammond Plains and Fall River),” said Lapierre. Last year we (out of 145 participants) had about 30 girls from other associations and this year the number went up again to about 70 girls (from other associations).”
Lapierre also fielded phone calls and e-mails from parents who were upset that their daughter missed this year’s event, but couldn’t wait until next year.
“I guess I’ll have to keep running the clinics,” said Lapierre with a laugh.
Based on the success of the event, Holly Lapierre better get used to running them for many years to come.
Source: International Baseball Federation
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They won both the Spring and the Summer events of High School baseball in Japan
Konan of Okinawa Prefecture roughed up highly touted right-hander Shinta Hifumi and trounced Kanagawa’s Tokaidai Sagami 13-1 in the final of the national High School baseball championship in Japan.
Konan became only the sixth school in the long history of Japanese High School baseball to win both the Spring and Summer national meets and first since Daisuke Matsuzaka, now with the Boston Red Sox, helped Yokohama do so in 1998.
In front of 47,000 spectators at “Koshien” Stadium, Konan had two big innings—a seven-run fourth and a five-run sixth—while left-handed ace Yosuke Shimabukuro scattered nine hits and allowed just one unearned run in his fourth complete game of the tournament.
Source: International Baseball Federation
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Germany National Team member Kai Gronauer will compete in the Arizona Fall League. The catcher is having a great season that started with an invitation to spring training in February.
Since then he has spent time with two teams in the New York Mets organization. Starting off with Savannah in the South Atlantic League. Here Gronauer hit .267 with 2 home runs and 23 RBI. Even more impressive was Gronauer’s caught stealing percentage of 45%.
With that he earned a promotion to high A ball and the Port St. Lucie Mets of the Florida State League. In St. Lucie, Gronauer hit .313 with 2 home runs and 19 RBI in 35 games. He continued his impressive caught stealing percentage at 38%.
Gronauer will play for the Mesa Solar Sox in Arizona when the league starts up on October 12th.
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Sioux Falls 4, Lincoln 3 (11 innings)
Lincoln dropped an extra-inning heartbreaker on a bases-loaded eleventh inning sacrifice fly to drop game two of the best-of-five division series 4-3. After 1B Brandon Sing was moved to third on a sacrifice bunt following his double to start the inning, Lincoln walked the bases loaded only to succumb to C Eddy Rodriguez’s (pictured) sacrifice fly to right field. Pheasants’ leadoff man Joe Anthonsen enjoyed a 4-for-5 night, blasting a solo home run in the first after hitting none during the regular season, and later added an RBI single. Lincoln tied the game at three in the sixth with a two-run home run from 1B Phil Hawke, but Sioux Falls’ bullpen tossed four one-hit innings to put out the fire and earn the victory. Starting pitchers John James and Chris Salberg each threw seven innings, surrendering three runs in quality starts. Lincoln will try to avoid a three-game sweep Friday night at 7:05 PM CST. LHP Ryan Rodriguez is probable to take the hill for Sioux Falls while RHP Chris Cullen gets the nod for Lincoln.
Shreveport-Bossier 8, Pensacola 4
Late insurance sealed a 2-0 series lead for Shreveport-Bossier in their best-of-five division series with Pensacola. Entering the ninth up 5-4, the Captains strung together a pair of infield hits, walks, and a couple wild pitches to put together three insurance runs against the Pelicans’ bullpen. RHP Osvaldo Rodriguez picked up the win for Shreveport-Bossier, allowing one earned run over 5.1 innings of work. Palmer Karr, Jr., Andres Rodriguez, and Jorge Alvarez each contributed two RBI for the Captains. Pensacola put together a three-run seventh to pull within one of the lead, but ultimately game two slipped away. Pensacola will try to avoid a sweep on the road Friday. RHP Bryan Rembisz will take the hill for the Pelicans while Shreveport-Bossier will send southpaw Ryan DiPietro to the mound at 7:05 PM CST.
Source: AmericanAssociationBaseball.com