Six teams entered in Fawcetts Canada Day shootout
CHARLOTTETOWN - Six teams from across Atlantic Canada have confirmed their entries to the second annual Charlottetown Fawcetts Don Fitzpatrick Canada Day weekend shootout at City Diamond and Spring Lane in Charlottetown.
The Shootout will start Friday night as the Fawcetts host the PEI Jrs and the Kinkora Hitmen at City Diamond. Game times are 6pm and 8pm. The tournament will run through Saturday and Sunday.
Fawcett regular Mike Bishop and Steve Langley will be toeing it up this weekend. This duo makes up one of the finest pitching staffs in Eastern Canada.
They will be joined by Brian Urquart for this years nationals. Brian is the brother of former PEI Rocket, Corey Urquart.
The offence will be lead by current national team member and Fargo, N.D. Kegel Black Knight Jeff Ellsworth, Chris Craig and Jamie MacDonald. MacDonald has been the Fawcetts hottest hitter so far this summer.
Coach Alan Power is excited about having most of the team together for the first time
"With all the bad weather this summer and Jeff and Steve playing in North Dakota, it’s been hard to get most of the team together," Power said.
When asked about this weekends competition coach Power commented that "although we are the only true senior level team this weekend some of these teams have some good pitching and in softball with good pitching anything can happen".
Other teams entered include the PEI Juniors, Glace Bay Silver Bullets from N.S., Kinkora Hitmen, Hunter’s Ale House and Newfoundland and Labrador.
Following is the schedule as released Thursday night by the team: (All games at CITY DIAMOND unless otherwise noted. Please check www.fawcettsfastball.com for game scores)
Alpine Division
Charlottetown Razzy’’s Fawcetts
PEI Jrs.
NFLD
Mooselight Division
Kinkora Hitmen
Hunter’’s Ale House
Glace Bay Silver Bullets, NS
Schedule
Friday June 30, 2006
8pm Kinkora Hitmen vs Charlottetown Razzy’’s Fawcetts
Saturday July 1st, 2006
City Diamond
9:30 Glace Bay Silver Bullets, NS vs PEI Jrs.
11:15 Hunter’s Ale House vs Nfld
12:45 pm PEI Jrs vs Kinkora Hitmen (at SPRING LANE)
1:00 Hunter’s Ale House vs Charlottetown Razzy’’s Fawcetts
2:45 NFLD vs Glace Bay Silver Bullets, NS
4:30 Hunter’s Ale House vs PEI Jrs
6:15 NFLD vs Kinkora Hitmen
8:00 Charlottetown Razzy’’s Fawcetts vs Glace Bay Silver Bullets, NS
Sunday July 2nd, 2006
City Diamond
10:00 am 1st MooseLight vs 2nd Alpine
12:00 pm 1st Alpine vs 2nd Mooselight
2:00 pm Championship
SUBMITTED BY:
PAT HEALEY
ALBERTON PEI
pathealey(at)eastlink.ca