Peace Arch News News Tuesday, April 17, 2012 Peace Arch
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sports South Surrey softball players vie for spot on Canadian squad
Locals at national camp
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South Surrey’s Melanie Matthews (left) and Delta’s Jen Yee will participate in a Softball Canada selection camp in Oklahoma City in mid-June.
100 days to go The 100-day countdown to the Surrey-hosted BC Summer Games begins Thursday, with a torchlighting ceremony planned for Bear Creek Park. The event is scheduled to take place at the park (13750 88 Ave.) from 6:30-7:30 p.m. and will include appearances by Surrey Mayor Dianne Watts and other special guests. The BC Games will be held throughout Surrey from July 19-22. For more, visit www.2012bcsummergames.ca
of the field crew. Additionally, any youth softball player, who is a member of Softball BC and is born between 1998 and 2001, can volunteer as an official batgirl for one of the tournament’s elite teams. Interested volunteers can find more information, and complete an online application form, at www. canadianopenfastpitch. com/volunteers/new. Each volunteer must commit to working a minimum of 20 hours during the event.
Football sign up
Any young football players interested in Organizers of the getting a jump on the Canadian Open next season can stop by Fastpitch International the Rotary Club’s Pooch Championships are Parade on the Peninsula on the lookout for Sunday, where the volunteers White to lend at a Rock-South hand at this Surrey summer’s Titans event. Minor The Football prestigious Association sports@peacearchnews.com women’s will be set fastpitch up. tournament, held The Titans are at Softball City and sponsors of the Pooch Cloverdale Athletic Park Parade and will have from June 30 until July a tent set up for pre9, will host more than registrations, and 80 teams from around sign-up forms for the the world. 2012 season will be Volunteers of all ages, available for pickup. skills and backgrounds The tent will be set are needed in a variety up from 10 a.m. until of capacities, from 1 p.m. For those not scorekeeping to security able to stop by Sunday, and parking, to helping additional registration out in ticket booths and sessions will be held at gates, or as a member April 28 and May 5.
A handful of local softball players have been invited to a Softball Canada selection camp June 15-22 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Twenty-six players have received an invitation to the camp, from which a women’s national team will be selected to compete at three major international tournaments. And among those 26 are a number of local stars, including infielder Jen Yee of North Delta, South Surrey outfielder Melanie Matthews, infielder Kelsey Bryant of Surrey, and former White
Rock Renegades Jocelyn Cater, Corrine Doornberg, Kelsey Haberl, Marina Demore and Paige Collings. Bryant, 21, is a graduate of Sullivan Heights Secondary and will be at her first national team camp. Both Yee and Matthews have been national team veterans since 2008, when they played at the Olympic Summer Games in Beijing, China. They’ve both also made numerous appearances locally with Team Canada, at Canadian Open
Fastpitch International Championships, formerly the Canada Cup. Seventeen players from the selection camp will form the national team, which will play at the US World Cup of Softball in Oklahoma City June 28 to July 2, the Canadian Open Fastpitch International Championship July 4-9 at Softball City in Surrey, and following their appearance on local turf, they’ll head to Whitehorse. for the Women’s World Championship, July 13-22. - Rick Kupchuk
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