Talk:Japanese national team beats ACT softball team

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Reporter Notes[edit]

I took notes in a notebook based on my own observations of the game, from listening to the loud speaker, from talking to the ACTAS trainer who worked with softball, and from two members of the Australian men's national softball team. Below are some of my notes. (spellings were verified from my Wikipedia user pages where I was have been working on articles about players)

Japan ranked 2nd in world. Australia 6th. Japan side is young. Pitcher is 19. Best pitcher in world who pitched in Beijing held in reserve until playing Australian side.

15 - Belgium born player De Blase 14 - Claire Curry 19 Aime Murch pitcher 2 Clair Warwick 3 Tash Badley 4 Justine Smethhurst

De Blase lef off with hit 12 was just out End of first De Blase was stranded on base

Aimee Murch was pitching in first

  1. 15 for Japan open bottom of first with single. Next batter moved her to 3 on songle.

15 did not score. Tagged out at home after fly.

6 hit for a souble scoaring a runner.

2nd inning top for ACT

  1. 1 tagged out on an infield hit
  2. 5 " "
  3. 3 " "

Bottom 2nd for Japan

  1. 13 out on foul pop up on third base side
  2. 11 out on rocker to centre field
  3. 24 " "

3rd inning top ACT

  1. 24 infield ground out
  2. 21 " "
  3. 15 hit a long foul over third base would have been home run before striking out

The Japanese side is sponsored by a major world wide sporting goods company and has really good equipment.

3rd Bottom First batter infield ground out

  1. 8 got a single on an infield hit

11 infield ground out to end side.

4th inning top

  1. 2 pop out in field.
  2. 14 out field single

Bottom of fifth Japan winning 1-0

Dog named Streaker owned by Adam ran into field and distrubted play

Top of 6th

  1. 14 on japan hit by ball hit by Aussie

Australian base runner also hit

Game ended 1-0.

End notes. --LauraHale (talk) 10:29, 19 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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