After a summer full of exciting Maccabiah action, Israeli Sofball returns to the diamond for the Babe Gillette Fall Tournament.

Remembering Dave Three Years Down the Line
August 7, 2009, we will play the third annual mid-summer softball tournament at Kibbutz Shomrat in memory of Dave Lelchook. The tournament committee invites all ISA players to participate in the mini-tournament.

Bring family and friends and a picnic lunch. Come in your ISA team uniforms and arrive at around 10:15 for warm-ups and dividing into tournament teams.

Free ice cream and soft drinks, courtesy of Lelchook family.
Free entrance to pool, courtesy of ISA.

The Israel Women’s National team has traveled to Hoboken, Belgium to partake in this year’s European Softball Championships for Women 2009 – B Division.
The other teams participating in this year’s B Division Championships: Sweden, Ukraine, Croatia, Hungary, Slovenia, Belgium, Denmark, Bulgaria, Poland, and Switzerland
The Israeli National Team will play 5 games in their sub-division and two playoff games vs teams from the other sub-division with similar records. The playoffs, if Israel qualifies, will take place on Friday & Saturday.

Monday
11:00 Israel – Ukraine: win 4 - 1
15:00 Israel – Denmark: win 8 - 7

Tuesday
12:00 Israel – Switzerland win 8 - 1
16:00 Poland – Israel win 15 - 8

Wednesday
12:00 Croatia – Israel loss 2 - 0


Playoff games – to determine placement for “Page” finals system
Thursday
18:00 Israel - Belgium loss 17 - 1

Friday
10:00 Sweden - Israel loss 7 -3

Playoff Semi-finals
Friday
15:30 Croatia Third Place vs. Israel Fourth Place
18:00 Belgium First Place vs. Sweden Second Place

Saturday
Final: 13:00 First/Second Semifinal Loser vs Third/Fourth Semifinal Winner
Grand Final: 16:00 First/Second Semifinal Winner vs Final Winner

Men‘s Open: Gold-Canada; Silver-USA; Bronze-Mexico
Women‘s Open: Gold-USA; Silver-Argentina; Bronze-Canada
Men‘s Masters: Gold-USA; Silver-Canada; Bronze-Venezuela

Check out latest pictures and stats on our site!

We hope to see you all soon in Maccabiah 2013!

The round-robin games are over.
Come to the see the Maccabiah finals and grand finals

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For more information about the 18th Maccabiah Softball Games, Tournaments, Schedule, Merchandise etc., visit the 18th Maccabiah tab at the top of this page.

Softball president: “This is a perfect example of our sport being accessible to a wide-range of participants.”


Ramat Gan, Israel; 10th July 2009: Softball players from around the world are finalizing their preparations for the 18th Maccabiah Games which begin in Israel on Monday, reinforcing the universal popularity of the sport as the BackSoftball campaign continues making an impact.

Half of all Israeli Maccabiah participants will not be allowed to attend the event‘s opening ceremony, following a decision by the organizers.

The committee of the Maccabiah, known as the Jewish Olympics, told heads of sports teams two weeks ago that they needed to halve their teams‘ presence at the ceremony. Only about 1,100 of the 2,200 Israeli athletes will be given a free ticket to the event on July 13 in Ramat Gan.

Micah Winston, Yossi Saar & Shariel Ben Israel lead the Junior Boys National Team to a 3rd place finish in the 2009 European Championships in the Czech Republic. Read on for the fully detailed recaps of these exciting games.

The combination of Israel‘s good pitching and hitting with sloppy pitching of the opposing ýteam all assisted the Israel National Team in their first win of the tournament.ý

The Tigers B and ISP TA faced off last night in a gripping final game. For full recap and pictures click on read more.

Penticon won it‘s third consecutive ISA Men‘s fast-pitch championship on Sunday with a convincing 14-7 win over Dimona.

Penticon defeated the Dimona Mean Judeans in the first game of the best-of-3 Championships at the Baptist Village field on Friday morning. The score was 14-7. Both teams both scored a run in the first inning, Penticon‘s on Howie Hirsch‘s inside-the-park homer, but the dueling pitchers Ami Baran and Yarone Ben Israel each escaped jams. Penticon’s Baran would persevere while Dimona’s Yarone was let down by his defense, and it was 10-1 by the fifth inning with David Raelbrook also homering past the diving Dimona left-fielder. Meanwhile, Penticon’s defense held strong until the fifth when Dimona came back with 5 runs. Penticon tacked on a 4-spot in the sixth to make it 14-6 and Dimona ended the scoring with one run in the top of the seventh.

-Recap by Dan Aronovic

The Israel Junior Men‘s National Team will be leaving on June 29 to play in the European Championships.

Defending champs Penticon booked a slot in the Israel Softball Assocation Finals against Dimona with a convincing 6-1 win over Ziontours.

Game 1 of the Finals takes place on Friday morning, 19.6 at 10 a.m., matching up the top two teams of the ISA Fastpitch league. Entrance to the finals is free at the Baptist Village in Petach Tikvah.

Regular Season champion Penticon squared off against #4 seeded Ziontours in the first game of the semi-final playoff series.

On Thursday, the #2 seeded Dimona Mean Judeans drew first blood in the Israel Softball Association‘s best-of-3 semi-finals with an 8-3 win over the Tigers. Dimona rode a 6-strikeout performance from pitcher Yarone Ben Israel, and solid defense, highlighted by a fantastic catch by Amikie Ben Israel that saved a pair of runs. Down 1-0 in the third on Shlomi Mor Haim‘s triple, Dimona scored five runs with two outs against pitcher Goose Gillett and never trailed again. Amithan Ben Israel, Ovade Ben Israel and Yarone were each 3-4 at bat.

In the women‘s semi-final on Thursday, #1 seeded ISP Tel Aviv crushed the Dimona Lady Judeans 17-2 to advance to the Final against Tigers B. Tel Aviv broke the ice with a 2-run RBI double by Yehudit Nosgorodcky and widened the gap in the 3rd and 4th scoring an additional 12 runs. The Dimona team was no match for star pitcher Ileana Levy‘s roaring windmill but did put up a fight, scoring two runs with aggressive baserunning to extend the game another inning. The Final will take place on June 22 at The Baptist Village.

Note: Final date for registration June 10th. Places are limited.
To sign up, please contact:
Adriana Luchansky: adriurb@hotmail.com
or Revital Ofir: revi31@gmail.com , 0548118620

Camp Summary
The ISA Junior Camp is designed to provide youth players at all levels with intense instruction in all aspects of the game. The goal is to provide you with the tools needed to take your game to the next level and beyond.
Players will train daily at the incredible campus of Hadassa Neurim Youth Village, near Netanya.
The camp will be directed by Adriana Luchansky, Women and Youth Director for the Israel Softball Association, who has been running the camp for the past 5 years. The camp is meant for player ages 12 to 18, cost is 1000 NIS.

Players will spend the week practicing drills and playing in games with our professional staff throughout the week. This year we have a special guest, our very own National Team Pitcher and former NCAA pitcher from the U.S., to give special pitching instruction. Players will stay with the staff in Neurim dorms and eat 3 kosher buffet style meals a day in the cafeteria.

Please click on the link below for more details about the camp.

Softball / Israeli national team head tries to pitch the sport to the public / Getting the (soft)ball rolling

By Uri Talshir

We are looking for responsible people with good knowledge of softball/baseball and basic scorekeeping experience.

Please contact Yoram: yoram_g@yahoo.com

Rehovot Cochav, led by pitcher Kobi Daya and a home run from Eden Bir, defeated Eilat 18-7 in the Final of the Israel Junior Men‘s National Championship which took place on April 5-6 at the Baptist Village.

In the 3rd place game, Bika‘at Beit Shean beat Rehovot Tapuz 21-13 behind the solid pitching of Pablo Szafran and the big bats of Nogos Vosia & Philip Tannor.

Ayelet - The Federation of Non-Olympic Sport in Israel
http://www.ayelet-sport.org.il/articles.asp?id=1845

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