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First Round Playoffs – Thursday, November 8, 2012 - from FastPitchWest:
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12:30pm
A3 (Pool A, third place) New Zealand (4-2)
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B4 (Pool B, fourth place) Mexico (3-3)
(loser eliminated)Â - New Zealand won 10-6 - New Zealand play Australia Fri 12:30pm3:00 pm
B3 (Pool B, third place) Canada (4-2)
vs.
A4 (Pool A, fourth place) Denmark (2-4)
(loser eliminated) - Canada won over Denmark 8-0 - Canada play USA 3:00pm Friday6:00pm
A1 (Pool A, first place) Australia (6-0)
vs.
B2 (Pool B, second place) Japan (5-1) - Japan won over Australia 7-38:30pm
A2 (Pool A, second place) USA (5-1)
vs.
B1 (Pool B, first place) Argentina (6-0) - Argentina win over USA 8-5 in front of big crowd. Argentina play Japan at 6pm Friday.
FRIDAY PLAYOFFS THANKS TO FASTPITCHWEST:*** Times will change due to the rain delay ***
12:30pm (Played SATURDAY morning)
Australia (6-0 in pool play, 0-1 in playoffs)v. New Zealand (4-2 in pool play, 1-0 in playoffs)
(loser eliminated)Â FINAL: AUS 2 - NZ 1 - New Zealand eliminated Saturday morning 1035am ESTFriday, November 9, 2012 (Played Saturday morning at 1130am EST)
3:00 pm
USA (5-1 in pool play, 0-1 in playoffs)vs. Canada (4-2 in pool play, 1-0 in playoffs)
(loser eliminated) Estimated start 11:30am EST Sat morningCanada wins 4-2 over USA and will now play Australia
6:00pm (Being played NOW starting 2pm EST SATURDAY)
Argentina (6-0 in pool play, 1-0 in playoffs) vs. Japan (5-1 in pool play, 1-0 in playoffs)
(Battle of the “double life†teams, winner to Gold medal game, loser to play survivor of Canada/USA/Australia/New Zealand)8:30pm (NOW estimated 5PM EST SATURDAY)
Winner of Australia/New Zealand vs. Winner of Canada/USAThis game will feature Australia vs Canada approximately 5pm Saturday OR NOT, looks like they played on D2 earlier and Australia won. Canada eliminated, 4th place. Congratulations #TeamCanada @SoftballCanada.
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5:00pm EST Japan playing Australia, winner to play Argentina in the Championship game. IT IS on live stream. FINAL just before 8pm EST, Japan 5-4 over Australia in 9 innings. A very exciting game! Now Japan play host Argentina for the Gold! Pointstreak is wrong, still not fixed half hour after the game. But kudos to #Parana2012 for a great job all around!
SATURDAY 8:15PM EST and Japan and Argentina are warming up and its streamed, great quality, local TV cameras from TV station I understand. Super quality.10:40pm EST and Argentina wins the Gold! A 5 - 0 win over Japan who played well all week but ran out of steam in the final innings in #Parana2012.
Argintina wins the Gold - win over Japan 5 - 0
Japan wins the Silver - they beat Australia score still under discussion
Australia takes Bronze - beat Canada 3 - 2
Canada comes 4th
USA and New Zealand comes 5th
Mexico and Denmark take 6thA big WELL DONE to ALL the teams AND to Parana Argentina, a fantastic job of hosting!
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