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BRIT BALLThe Official Voice of the British Baseball Federation

Issue 51 95p August 1997

IEUROPEAN JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS I

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A win was vital, and GreatBritain eventually won this inthe 9th. Andy Gilbert, KevinStidham and Henry Collinscombined for the win, withCollins getting the win. Gilberthad a good day with the batgoing 3 for 5 with two triplesand 3 RBI. With Gilbert onlygoing four innings, giving up 8runs on 7 hits, Great Britain

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Great Britain were drawnagainst Romania, Sweden andPoland in the round robin partof the schedule.

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This win put Great Britain at thetop of the group with a 3-0record. This was a real teameffort in the pitching stakes withStidham, Bath, Walter, Taylorand Malihoudis combining to getthe win for Great Britain. EdJeffrey hit another two dingers,having another great day at theplate.

Chris Pearson was the startingpitcher for this game givingGreat Britain seven innings,giving up 10 runs on only 5 hits.However he got the win, LiamBath and Henry Collinscombined for the save. 13 walkswere the problem in this game,as the offence held up with AlexMalihoudis and Ed Jeffreyworking well at the plate. Jeffreyhit the first home run of thetournament

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. Commissioner and NationalUmpiring Coordinator: Ted GerardThesinghScorers Cor,nmlssioners:South: Brian HollandNorth: Clive MaudeScotland: Liz GrahamYouth Commissioners:North: Alan WilsonSouth: Paul VernonSchools: Kevin McCallion

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Great Britain 11 Poland 15

gave up more than any otherteam in the competition. Howeverwe also led the tournament inruns scored, with Ed Jeffreywinning three individual awardsfor Home runs, Runs Scored andRBI.

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'JanS~Great Britain Junior Squad

Team Manager.

I would like to thank all of theplayers and the coaching staff fortheir efforts in the tournament. Iwould also like to thank WendyMacadam for the ridiculousamount of hours she put in duringthe tournament. I know she islooking forward to the next one. Itwas a great experience for allconcerned, and hopefUlly we cango one better next time.

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Game 4

Game 5

This was a disappointing loss, andwas essentially down to giving up8 runs in the second inning, andanother 8 in the ninth. AndyGilbert started for Great Britainagainst Goldberg who pitched forIsrael. Israel were a good ballclub, but due to courage andcommitment we still managed toget the tying run to the plate in thebottom of the ninth. However atthis stage our luck ran out, andIsrael went through to meetUkraine in the final.

Overall we were disappointed inwhere we finished, however wewere very proud of the efforts andcourage shown by the players.Walks and errors let us down, we

This was a game too far for theGreat Britain squad. Injuries andlack of pitching depth combined tohamper the squad's quest for thebronze medal. The busiest manbefore the game was Ray Birchthe physio, who worked wondersto get the players onto the field.Poland were worthy victors, in

• what was again a close game

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RESULTS

SENIOR LEAGUES

COORS EXTRA GOLDBASEBALL LEAGUE

Lancashire Tigercats 5Birmingham Bandits 2Lancashire Tigercats 2Birmingham Bandits 12

Nottingham Stealers LiverpoolTrojans ] ppNottingham Stealers LiverpoolTrojans ] pp

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Thames Valley MaulersChiltern Blue Jays 9

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DIVISION ONE

SOUTHERN CONFERENCEDIVISION ONE London Exiles 12 Guildford

Mudcats 10Croyden Pirates 8 CambridgeMonarchs 1

Arun Panthers 4 BournemouthB's 8

SOUTHERN CONFERENCEEdinburgh Reivers 9 Glasgow DIVISION THREEComets 0

Tiptree Rays 13 Bushey FalconsLivingston Wildcats 0 Dundee 6Dragons 9

Milton Keynes Truckers 10 CitySlick Sidewinders 21 SENIOR LEAGUES

Bracknell Blazers Gillingham COORS EXTRA GOLDDodgers PP BASEBALL LEAGUE

Birmingham Bandits 8 MenwithSOUTHERN CONFERENCE Hill 1DIVISION TWO Birmingham Bandits 3 Menwith

Hill 4CONFERENCE

Cartmel Valley Lions 3 PrestonBobcats 27Cartmel Valley Lions 4 PrestonBobcats 28

SCOTTISH

Essex Arrows 2 Hounslow Blues8Essex Arrows 0 Hounslow Blues9

Bamsley Strikers 10 NewarkYankees 7

West Midland Razorbacks 41Stretford A's 19

NORTHERN CONFERENCEDIVISION ONE

London Warriors 3 EnfieldSpartans 2London Warriors 3 EnfieldSpartans 2

14 Leeds

17 LeedsKingston CobrasLuddites 2Kingston CobrasLuddites 3

Stevenage Knights 9 BracknellInferno 0

26 Brentwood11

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Brighton BuccaneersHounslow Blues 8winning pitcher John Fosterlosing pitcher Don Knighthome runs: Miles October, Tom

11 Burns [Hounslow]Brighton Buccaneers

3 Hounslow Blues 15winning pitcher Don Knightlosing pitcher Mick Carter

16 home runs: Miles October (2)

Windsor BearsStags 3

Guildford MavericksCaterham A's 7

• Cambridge Monarchs BBrighton Buccaneers B 10Cambridge Monarchs BBrighton Buccaneeers B 6

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Croyden Pirates 8 ArunPanthers 6Winning pitcher: Ceasar Lozano

Gillingham Dodgers 15Tunbridge Wells Royals 22Winning pitcher: J CarterLosing pitcher: J Jacobs

City Slick Sidewinders 3Bracknell Blazers 4Winning pitcher: Paul Raybould4 batters got 3 from 4:- JasonAllsop; Rob Rance; Phil Herbert;Paul RayboUld.City Slick Sidewinders 7Bracknell Blazers 13Winning pitcher: Jason AllsopPhill Herbert got 3 from 4Paul Vernon got 5 from 5

SOUTHERN CONFERENCEDIVISION TWO

Brentwood Stags 9 StevenageKnights 0

Caterham A's 9 Burgess HillRed Hats 0

Guildford Mavericks 9 EssexArrows II 0

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0 LondonBournemouth B's 12 MiltonKeynes 11

4 Nottingham Bournemouth B's 35 MiltonKeynes 4

3 Nottingham

Leeds Luddites 12 LancashireTigercats 11Winning pitcher: C PearsonLosing Pitcher: M King

Hessle WarriorsStealers 10Hessle WarriorsStealers 13

Liverpool Trojans 0 KingstonCobras 17Liverpool Trojans 0 KingstonCobras 27

Essex ArrowsWarriors 12Essex ArrowsWarriors 24

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London Warriors 12 Brighton9 Buccaneers 2

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Hessle Warriors 4 BirminghamBandits 19

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Bushey Falcons 15 SouthendPeers 16Excellent close game all the waythrough

Chiltern Blue Jays 40Maidstone Lasers 27

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Cartmel Valley Lions 9 NewarkYankees 58Winning pitcher: D GreavesLosing pitcher: G Callow8 home runs:- 3 each for DGreaves and J Grainger; 1 for CMortimore and P Palmer.

Menwith Hill Patriots 0 KingstonCobras 11Winning pitcher: Gavin Marshallwith 12 strike-outsLosing pitcher: LaPointeHome runs for Prior and Parker

Sheffield BladerunnersBarnsley Strikers 29

Nottingham Stealers LeedsLuddites ppLiverpool Trojans 2 LancashireTigercats 19winning pitcher: B AlgerLosing pitcher: S Perezhome run: M King [Tigercats]

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Guildford Mudcats 9 ThamesValley Maulers 0

Bracknell Dynamite 3 LondonExiles 28Winning pitcher: J ButlerLosing pitcher: P WilesBracknell Dynamite 5 LondonExiles 11Winning pitcher: S BurnLosing pitcher: J Cooney

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Enfield Spartans 12Arrows 2Enfield Spartans 18Arrows 2

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Panthers 4Cambridge Monarchs 12 ArunPanthers 10Winning pitcher: C Shinaberry;M Gilbert

Milton Keynes Truckers 4Croyden Pirates 11

Bracknell Blazers 9Bournemouth B's 4Paul Raybould pitched 6 inningsof shutout, giving up a home runin the seventh.4 hits,S strike-outs and 1 walk.MattDunning went 2 for 3; PhilHerbert 3 for 5. Rob Rance hit ahome run.

Tunbridge Wells Royals 12 CitySlick Sidewinders.13Winning pitcher: WilsonLosing pitcher: A Corby


Stevenage Knights 0 WindsorBears 9

Brentwood Stags 9 CambridgeMonarchs B 0

Brighton Buccaneers B 5Guildford Mavericks 16

Essex Arrows II 0 Burgess HillRedHats 9

SOUTHERN CONFERENCEDIViSiON THREE

Southend Peers 13 Tiptree Rays29Wes Seymour struck out 5 in arow in the 5th and 6th innings.

London Exiles 14 BusheyFalcons 13

Thames Valley Maulers 0Bracknell Dynamite 9

Maidstone Lasers 1 GuildfordMudcats 35

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Enfield Spartans 4 HounslowBlues 3 Bournemouth B's 17

TunbridgeWells Royals 3

Barnsley Strikers 33 West Caterham A's

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Windsor Bears 7 5 3.5

Guildford Mavericks 6 4 3.5

Cambridae Monarchs B 8 7 4

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Croydon Pirates 9 3 1.5

Bracknell Blazers 8 3 2

City Slick Sidewinders 7 5 3.5

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Millon Kevnes Truckers 2 10 8.5

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Birminaham Bandits 16 3

Kinaston Cobras 15 3 0.5

Menwith Hill Patriots 14 3 1

Nottinaham Stealers 10 8 5.5

Hessle Warriors 7 12 9

Leeds Luddites 5 13 10.5

Lancashire Tiaercats 7 16 11

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West Midlands Razorbacks 2 5 6 SOUTH - DIVISION THREE GAMEs

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Guildford Mudcats 10 2 1.5

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WINS LOSSES BACK Bushey Falcons 5 4 5

Edinburah Reivers 9 1 Chiltern Blue Javs 5 5 5.5

Dundee Draaons 7 2 1.5 Southend Peers 3 4 6

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Enfield Soartans 12 5 0.5

Hounslow Blues 11 8 2.5

Briahton Buccanneers 10 10 4

Essex Arrows 2 16 11

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Cartmel Valley Lions 18Stretford A's 23Winning pitcher: M LeachLosing pitcher: J Spodifora

Sheffield Bladerunners 9Preston Bobcats 0

Midland Razorbacks 12

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Essex Arrows 9 BrightonBuccaneers 17winning pitcher: HillsLosing pitcher: GoodfellowEssex Arrows 2 BrightonBuccaneers 3Winning piJcher: CarterLosing pitcher: Steinburger

Lancashire Tigercats 8 MenwithHill Patriots 12

Leeds Luddites 5 HessleWarriors 4Winning pitcher: J Padbury

COORS EXTRABASEBALL LEAGUE

Liverpool Trojans 0 BirminghamBandits 18Liverpool Trojans 1 BirminghamBandits 18Winning pitcher: M Godsall - nohitter

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Jim Moran capped a four runfourth inning with a two run homerun to put the Bandits on top witha 5-4 lead. 16 year old JamesMoran came off the bench with

The Birmingham Bandits lost toBerlin 15-11 in the EuropeanChampionships at Strausberg,Germany.

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Stockholm scored the winning runin the bottom of the ninth inning.

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Many spectators and tournamentofficials believed this was thegame of the tournament. TheBandits scored two runs in thefirst inning and six runs in thesecond to take an 8-0 lead. Butsolid hitting by the Swedesbrought the score back to 8-8.

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The Birmingham Bandits weredefeated by Stockholm (Sweden) Joe Yarnold had 5 hits on the15-14 as Fred Speck of (Continued on page 22)

Birmingham now face Stockholm(Sweden) in the semi-finals withMartin Godsall scheduled toreturn to the mound after his 5-1win against Oslo (Norway) onTuesday.

Manager Mike Harrold said, "Wehad the bases loaded in threeinnings and failed to capitalisewith timely hitting."

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night as pitcher Martin Godsallwent the distance butunfortunately took the loss.

The Bandits exploded for fourruns in the first innings on fourconsecutive hits by MartinDutton, Jonathon Downs, JimMoran, and David Donaldson.

Florida

Although the 14-player all-starsquad bound for Floridaconsists mostly of Americans,two players are British;Jonathan and Ben Willis whoare making their first trip to theUnited States.

The all-star team was formedat the close of the regularseason and representedBritain in the European SeniorLeague tournament at Brzeg,Poland, July 13-18.

operates 25 teams at four agegroups with players from fiveto fifteen, and more than 100are British. "The opportunitiesfor baseball in this country arefantastic," says Halley. "Kidsare crying out for a summerteam game and we expect tohave close to 200 Britishplayers in the programme nextyear."

The British, who are the soleEuropean representatives,are an all-star squad from theAlconbury Youth League.Originally formed to serveAmerican families in the " W e IN.......Peterborough area, the we r en' tleague has grown rapidly in its favouritesthree year existence. It now to win that

UK BASEBALL TEAM IN FLORIDATOURNAMENTby Gary Bedingfield

The nine team event beingheld August 11-16, attractsteams from not only theUnited States, but Canada,South America and the FarEast, and coach, GeorgeHalley, originally from PortArthur, Texas, admits thegoing will be tough for theBritish team for more than onereason: "We're going to be upagainst the best players in theworld as well as exceptionallyhot and humid weather".

The Senior League WorldSeries in Kissimmee, Florida,a prestigious baseballtournament for 13 to 15 yearolds, will feature a British teamfor the first time since 1984.

slumped to the ZurichGrasshoppers 16-6 in the semifinals.

Despite home runs by JonathanDowns and Martin Dutton, theBandits felt the strain of 5 gamesin 5 days.

With a travelling squad of just 11players, the Bandits were missingmany key members due to injuryand unavailability.

The Bandits Jonathon Downs wonthe tournaments best batteraward while Stockholm won thetournament with a 7-2 win overBerlin. Stockholm defeatedBirmingham in the semi-final 1514.

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Dutton then went the distance asthe winning pitcher striking outeight Copenhagen batters andwalking only one. In fact, he tooka no-hitter into the seventhinning!

The Birmingham Banditscontinued their march on Europeas they trounced Copenhagen(Denmark) 9 -3to clinch a placein the semi-finals in the EuropeanChampionships in Strausberg,Germany.

Birmingham now face hostsBerlin to decide which team getswhich semi-final berth. Bothteams are 2-0. In the othergrQup, Alby (Sweden) take onZurich (Switzerland) to decide theother semi-final places that takeplace on Friday. The final isscheduled for Saturday.

The


Baseball in Britain goes back a lotfarther than some people think, infact, it was first played over here in1874 when a tour of Americanprofessionals took part in eXhibitiongames. The Baseball Association ofGreat Britain was founded in 1890. Itappears that former BostonCincinnati player A G Spalding wasthe driving force behind thisdevelopment. Spalding offered tofinance baseball teams that wereassociated with professional soccerteams, however, only four clubsDerby, Stoke, Preston and Aston Villatook up the offer, with Aston Villa thefirst champions.

tournament", says Halley. the trip to Florida.""We were up against toughteams from Russia, Lithuania So what does the British teamand Poland, but the kids just hope to achieve in Florida?amazed me. They were able "We just want to show that weto keep their heads in every can play the game in Britaingame and showed a mental and make sure the kids have astrength beyond. their years. good time," Halley explains. "ICombined with good defence know everyone will give it theirand pitching we made it to the best shot and, with a little luck,finals without losing a game we might just surprise someand beat Poland 13-8 to earn people."

THE SAINTS AREMARCHING ABROAD

Whilst on holiday in the Yearbook, which follows:States last year, Arthur

Kendal of Trafford Saints BASEBALL IN BRITAINwas flicking through a localmagazine, when he cameacross an article about aYouth Baseball Team calledthe St Pauls Saints. Neverh~ving heard of anotherteam called the Saints hedecided to contact them,and following severalconversations the TraffordSaints have become theadopted club of the St PaulSaints. Arthur wasrequested to write an articlefor the St Paul Saints

The boom period for British baseball teams all over Great Britain undercame in the 1930's when Sir John the British Baseball Federation.Moore of Littlewoods Poolsestablished the National Baseball Baseball at youth level is now firmlyAssociation. Many leagues were established in Great Britain withformed throughout the country with some 84,000 children taking part inprofessional leagues in the North of a pitch Hit and Run program,England and the London areas. sponsored by Major League BaseballCrowds of 30,000 were not International and organised by theuncommon. The highlight of this BBF. Pony Youth Leagues haveperiod was the victory by England in been set up throughout the country,1938 over the United States in a five with National Championships takingmatch series, England winning 4-1. place at the end of the leagueThis victory was acknowledged by season. The first winners werethe International Baseball Dundee Dragons from Scotland.Association as the first WorldAmateur Championship. The onset Why did we call ourselves theof the second World War restricted 'Trafford Saints'? Well, Trafford isthe growth of baseball at a the district in Manchester where weprofessional level, however, the play, the 'Saints' part is moregame is still played today by amateur interesting. Back in 1947 a group of

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Trafford Saints this season havesome 50 children registered asplayers and as more children areexposed to baseball this number willonly rise. The Saints were asked byBBC TV to do a promotional film tobe shown on Nationwide TV last July,the film only lasted 5 minutes, buttook all day to record. As a result ofthis film the BBF received hundredsof 'phone calls and letters fromchildren enquiring about baseball.Trafford Saints are extremely proudthat they were chosen and of theoutcome..

convincing style.

All our children and coaching staffwould like to thank all the staff andplayers at St Paul Saints, and we willbe rooting for you in the comingseason.

Ih 1995 the Saints retained theleague championship. In 1996 theBBF teamed up with PONY andintroduced leagues all over GreatBritain. The Saints won the NorthWest Pony League and entered theNational play-offs, but were beatenby a very strong team from Scotland,Dundee Dragons, by 15-14. Dundeewent on to win the National title in

men in Stretford [now in the Boroughof Trafford] decided to form abaseball team and they were called'Stretford Sioux'. The team were notvery successful until they played oneday in North Manchester. When theteam arrived they thought there wasanother team in Stretford called the'Saints' until the groundsman said hedidn't know how to spell Sioux so thenearest he could think of beginningwith an'S' was Saints! The team gottheir first victory that day anddecided to keep the name Saints forgood luck. This proved to be thecase in 1963, '64 and '65 when theSaints were British Champions. TheSaints name disappeared for a fewyears when the team stopped playingin the early 70's..1was the last playerfrom the championship team stillplaying baseball. in Stretford andwhen a decision was made to start achildren's team, only one namecame to my mind, 'Saints'. TraffordSaints Baseball club started in 1993,playing 'friendly'games againstteams from all over the North ofEngland and sometimes we couldonly just manage nine players. In1994 an organised league in theNorth West was started with 5teams. The Saints won the leagueand also the North West Trophy.


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From an umpirE;l's point of view itwas an honour not only to umpirethe Series, buUo work with someexceptional officials who clearlyhad hundreds of games undertheir belts, and two of whom hadattended the famous JoeBrinkman Umpire School inFlorida. They taught me a lot,from the rotations of the 4-mansystem to f()lding your capproperly and bringing your shoesand belt up to a military shine.


(President of Pony)can. only be likenedto Christmas sevendays a week. TheWorld Series was atremendous successto all whoparticipated, andyou could really seein the kids' facesthat this wasso met h i n gextremely special

for them - an experience of alifetime. The games were ofexceptional quality for their agegroup - I would like to see someof our Premier League teamstake on these 13-14 year olds,some of whom were over 6ft talland threw at 80mph plus!

But despite the obvious jokesabout Brits bringing their weatherwith them, everyone we metfrom Pony Baseball wasincredibly friendly. Thehospitality of our host Abe Key

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In fact, the feeling of utterdisbelief and scepticismcontinued until the day mytickets arrived. But the eventexceeded all my expectations,even if the 2-month longPennsylvanian drought endedthe moment Ian Smyth and Istepped off the aeroplane - thetorrential downpours pushed thetournament back by two daysand even then it was only thanksto two helicopters being used todry off the field that some gamestook place at all.

"I'm 'phoning youwith some goodnews, Jacob." It wasKevin Macadam."You've beenselected to umpire atthe Pony LeagueWorld Series inWashington,Pennsylvania; it'sabout 20 miles southof Pittsburgh." No, Idid not believe it.

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another invited umpire - Yu ChiShu from Taiwan. Although theonly words of English he knewwere "par", "birdie", "safe" and"out", he was a quality umpireand we got along great.

Let's hope Ian Succeeds in hismission to enable a Europeanteam to enter the tournamentwithin the next few years.

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Thanks, guys.

Although I could not stay toumpire the championship game(won by Danville, California in anall-American final), I did get towork behind the plate for one ofthe big games of the week when3,000 hometown fans came out tosee their Washington heroes takeon rivals Garland, Texas. Oh,how I loved hearing them boo!Much-fancied Asia-Pacificchampions Korea. did not comeup to expectations, but theinternational flavour washeightened by the presence of

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