D2 THE OAKVILLE BEAVER Wednesday, June 30, 1999 Angels qualify for World Series in Charlotte, N.C. TOURNEY HIGHLIGHTS P la y e r A B R H 1 2 3 rb i A v g O /B Regan Ritchie 17 5 9 8 1 0 3 .529 .667 Jordy Waltho 20 9 9 7 2 0 1 .450 .550 Robyn Pillar 13 4 5 5 0 0 4 .385 .579 Kathleen Yee 18 4 10 10 0 0 7 .555 .579 Jennifer Shepherd 17 7 10 10 0 0 2 .588 .611 Cassie Johnson 5 0 2 10 0 0 2 .400 .400 Dana Demers 17 4 5 3 2 0 7 .294 .333 Nicole Demers 8 0 4 3 1 0 3 .500 .500 Melissa Gilliland 18 8 8 4 3 1 8 .444 .500 Amy Thrasher 5 4 3 2 1 0 3 .600 .714 Megan Paul 12 6 3 3 0 0 3 .250 .526 The Canadians give up a bit of age difference because of the different age criteria. In fact in the final, he noted that the opposition Compuware team had nine Grade 9 players with three grade eights while the Angels had seven Grade 7 players. "We'll be in tough," he conceded. "Who knows, we may not do that well. But it's something they should experience." The tourney championship has been the high light of their season, so far. Other than that they've "missed a couple of bronze in Ontario tournaments." In their league play, they don't sport an out standing record at all, although there is an explana tion. Called the Ontario Women's Premier Fastpitch League, it's basically a new super league with only three other teams -- Brampton, Chinguacousy, last year's provincial champions, and Markham, last year' s silver medalists. Prior to the tourney, Oakville had only one tie in their first four games. More importantly, however, they got their win after coming back from the tour nament. Tough league play, however, prepared them for their tourney triumph. "We weren't intimidated by the U.S. pitchers because they're not as good as Markham, Brampton and Ching's pitchers are, and that's what we've been trying to contend with." And now they hope their tourney triumph will give them added confidence to make a move in their league. It should be an interesting season. By Norm Nelson BEAVER SPORTS EDITOR An U-14 Oakville girls rep fast pitch team has earned a berth in the National Softball Association (NSA) World Series of Fastpitch Softball to be held in Charlotte, North Carolina, July 26-Aug. 1. Going into the Can Am Games in Richmond, Michigan earlier this month, the Oakville Angels were unaware that winning the tourney carried with it more than the championship trophies. The Angels fired off a nifty six game win streak, including a championship game 7-2 win over defending Michigan State Champion Compuware out of Pontiac. Cassie Johnson pitched the win, scattering five hits over seven innings, with five strikeouts, one walk and four putouts. "She's just a first year player, she just turned 13, and she pitched that championship game, all seven innings," said coach Mark Johnson. "That was a big accomplishment for her." Dana Demers, he added, had seven putouts from third base and hit a key, two out, base clear ing double. Oakville won their semifinal game 8-6 over Brandon North Stars. Demers had a two-run RBI double in that one. In the preliminary round games, the Angels defeated Downriver Travel 11-3, Richmond Blues 13-3, Clarkston Riverdawgs 8-2 and the Windsor Wildcats 10-5. "It was big surprise to us because everyone just told us we were nuts to go down there because were just going to get our butts kicked," said coach Johnson. "We don't do a lot of bunting. We just hit the ball. The girls just pounded the ball." Through the tournament, as a whole, he listed several highlights ... • Regan Ritchie, the lead off hitter, had an on base percentage of .667 "which is amazing. She got on base two/thirds of the time." The Oakville Angels Novice rep team. BACK ROW: Robyn Pillar, Nicole Demers, Amy Thrasher and Melissa Gilliland. MIDDLE ROW: Jennifer Shepherd, Dana Demers, Jorgina Lee, Megan Paul, Cassie Johnson, Regan Ritchie and Lisa Whitby. FRONT ROW: Kathleen (Kat) Yee and Jody Waltho. ABSENT: Meagan Greene. • Judy Waltho scored nine runs ... Jennifer Shepherd hit .588 and played tremendous second base ... Melissa Gilliland scored eight runs and had 8 RBI's in the tourney .... Amy Thrasher, the relief pitcher, only had seven plate appearances but they were at key moments, "at the end of close games. She hit .600 with a .714 on-base percentage throughout the tournament." The unexpected windfall left the team having to scramble for an even longer U.S. sojourn. "We're having a team meeting, but I haven't met with much negativity, yet," quipped coach Johnson. "I think the parents think the girls earned this berth and they should be able to go." Show of power The Oakville A's minor bantam rep team flexed its muscles at the C aw thra Invitational Tournam ent, held June 12/13 in M ississauga, easily winning its three preliminary round games. After thumping Burlington Bulls White 11-1 in their semifinal, they had to settle for the silver medal when they lost a hard-fought final game 13- 9 to the M ississauga Majors. The Ontario Baseball Association peewee AA silver medalists last year, this year's A's squad had a 4-4 record in league play. Combined with their perform ances at tournam ents at Cawthra, St. Thomas and Oakville, the minor bantam A's record is 10-8-1. Flexing their muscles at the Cawthra Tournament, the Oakville A's minor bantam team. MUSCLE ROW: Adam Vandermun (co-manager), Tom Weech (coach), Andrew Hodd (coach) and Ryan M cCallen (co-man ager). KNEELING: Harold Jacques, Nick Birtig, Tyier Moe, Sean Casey, ly ie r Weech, M att Bekar, Brock Pawliw, Daniel Warelis, Larry McRae, Jason Collins and Adam Lawton. 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