> 2006 Team Highlights

Reporter: Your reaction to the loss today.  Player: Softball is a team sport, so I’m going to have to put this loss squarely on my teammates shoulders.

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2006 HUNTSMAN NSA SENIOR WORLDS UPDATE:                    
      

  St. George, Utah October 16-20, 2006  
Enviro-Vac Marauder 50s from Surrey, BC were  awarded the silver medal playing Major in St. George, Utah this October. An improvement from the bronze medal in 2005.

Senior teams in the US are rated by the US Ratings Group, an association of seven senior softball associations. Teams in the Huntsman Major division consisted mostly of Major Plus rated teams with one other Major team, Hootys from Wisconsin.

Highlights of the tournament for the Enviro-Vac team included knocking out the 2005 reigning Major tournament champions, Hootys and along the way also knocking out Major Plus BRL Academy Sports and Gies Chiropractic. The Majors championship went to this years SSUSA Major plus finalists, Oregon Masters who outscored the Enviro-Vac club by 6 runs in the finals.

The Huntsman tournament is different in their divisional ratings then the other senior associations.  Huntsman does not go by the “State Bordering Rule” allowing teams to pick up players from anywhere in the world. In SSUSA play for instance our bordering State is Washington & Alaska. Huntsman also starts at lower divisions, starting at “B” and working their way up through five divisions to end at Major. Most other senior associations have four divisions starting at AA and ending at Major-Plus also known as Super Major.

The Huntsman tournament attracted approx 340 teams playing in the various divisions and age groups 50 – 75. Seventy-two of those teams were from Canada. Canada’s strongest showing ever.

The EV club is now preparing to attend the SSUSA Winter Worlds in Las Vegas November 17-19.

Jim Klassen, Manager 

  

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Team MVP award went to team-mate & good friend, Don Freund who lead the team with 7 home runs and batted over .800. Of note were            

 « High average hitters Bob Mireau & Murray Wilcox  

 « Power hitters Ronnie Gass, Texan Bob Butler & Dave Docksteader 

« Defensive plays by Victoria native Jim Elbert at pitching and Murray Wilcox at shortstop.  

« Two players who contributed to the teams success by sharing playing tine between the Enviro-Vac 50s and Marauder 55s were Ross Evison & second base Dave Balmer 

2006 Combined Worlds Roster (combination of various worlds tournaments during the season).

  1. Adams Bill - Burnaby, BC
  2. Blamer Dave – Burnaby, BC
  3. Belton Rod – Victoria, BC
  4. Bonn Reggie - Surrey, BC
  5. Brissette Phil – Surrey, BC
  6. Butler Bob - Texas, USA
  7. Campbell James - Surrey, BC
  8. Docksteader Dave - Surrey, BC
  9. Elbert Jim - Victoria, BC
  10. Evison Ross – Abbotsford, BC
  11. Freund Don – Abbotsford, BC
  12. Gass Ron – Abbotsford, BC
  13. Grant Kevin - North Vancouver, BC
  14. Hnatiak Chuck - Surrey, BC
  15. Klassen Jim – Surrey, BC
  16. Knable Karl - Seattle, WA
  17. McCord Doug - Maple Ridge, BC
  18. McLuaghlin Dale, Seattle, WA
  19. Mireau Bob – Surrey, BC
  20. Mullens Dennis – Seattle, WA
  21. Ogin Steve, Seattle, WA
  22. Wilcox Murray - New Westminster, BC

chevron1.gif 2006 Finalists in men’s 50 Major, Huntsman Worlds St. George, Utah.

chevron1.gif 2006 Finalists in men’s 50 AAA, SSUSA Western Nationals, Reno, Nevada (two years running)

 

 

 

chevron1.gif 2006 Champions in men’s 50 Competitive NSA Provincials

chevron1.gif 2006 Champions in men’s 40 Competitive NSA Provincials

chevron1.gif2006 Champions (three years running)

chevron1.gif 2006 men’s 40 League Playoff Champs

chevron1.gif 2006 men’s 40 Provincial Qualifier Champs

BC Senior Games - Not much competition for Zone 3, Fraser Valley as Don Freund, Bob Mireau & Jim Klassen play for the Marauder 55s in the BC Senior Games in 2006 and coast to easy victory in the finals.

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