Tri Nations Cup Preview

Saturday, July 05, 2008

Team Canada is ready to roll at Tri Nations Cup
(Kitchener, ON) – The Senior Women’s National Softball Team will continue its journey towards the Beijing Olympic Games tonight as they will compete on home soil at the Kitchener Pioneers Lions “Road to Beijing” Tri Nations Cup in Kitchener, ON from July 6-8. The event will feature Team Australia (ranked third in the world), Team Japan (second) and the Canadian National Team (fifth). Canada is coming off a 1-0  exhibition game win over Venezuela on July 1st in Brampton, and recently completed their Pro Tour with a 9-3 record.

Canada will open the event against Australia tomorrow night, July 6th (7:00pm EDT), before taking on Japan on Monday, July 7th (8:30pm CDT). The second and third place teams will compete at 4:00pm on July 8th and the winner of that game will move on to face the first place team at 6:00pm in the Championships game.

Sunday night’s game against Australia will be of particular interest, as children who go to the ballpark wearing their baseball/softball jersey will be admitted for $2. Also, the Rowbust Dragon Boat team from London, ON will be on hand to raise money for breast cancer research. This charitable organization previously partnered with Team Canada at the OKC Olympic Preview last month.

Following is the list of players who were selected to the Olympic Roster and will be competing at the Tri Nations Cup:

Team Roster

#3 Lauren Bay Regula (Trail, BC)
#17 Alison Bradley (Pinkerton, ON)
#18 Erin Cumpstone (Saskatoon, SK)
#4 Sheena Lawrick (Calgary, AB)
#13 Danielle Lawrie (Langley, BC)
#11 Caitlin Lever (Buffalo, New York)
#15 Robin Mackin (Newmarket, ON)
#21 Noemie Marin (Acton-Vale, QC)
#12 Melanie Matthews (Surrey, BC)
#20 Erin McLean (Whitby, ON)
#77 Dione Meier (Saskatoon, SK)
#10 *Kristy Odamura (Richmond, BC)
#55 Kaleigh Rafter (Guelph, ON)
#8 *Katie Rosentreter (Winnipeg, MB)
#7 Jennifer Salling (Port Coquitlam, BC)
#14 Megan Timpf (Port Dover, ON)
#10 Jennifer Yee (North Delta, BC)

* Olympic Team Alternates

Coaching Staff

Head Coach: Lori Sippel (Stratford, ON)
Assistant Coach: Lonni Alameda (Las Vegas, Nevada)
Assistant Coach: Wendy Dobbin (Oshawa, ON)
Assistant Coach: Jim Peterson (DesMoines, Washington)
Assistant Coach: Don Bates (Saskatoon, SK)
Athletic Therapist: Laurie Freebairn (Maple Ridge, BC)
Team Leader: Harvey Stevenson (Victoria, BC)

Make sure to visit the new softball Canada website (www.softball.ca), where you can follow the team’s progress at the event with post-game news stories and box scores.

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For more information, please contact

Gilles LeBlanc
Manager: Marketing and Communications Services
Softball Canada
(613) 523-3386 ext 3105
gleblanc@softball.ca

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