Two days ago in Venezuela the VII Pan American Softball Championship for Womenconcluded. The tournament, which had 20 teams participating, also served as a qualifier for three different events: the ISF XII Women’s World Championship (2010 in USA), the XXI Central American & Caribbean Games (2010 in Puerto Rico), and the XVI Pan American Games (2011 in Mexico).
Team USA won the Pan American event two days ago, but had already gotten an automatic entry into next year’s ISF event because they are the host country. As a result, the teams that finished in second thru sixth place qualified for the tournament in July in Oklahoma City. Those teams were (listed in order of finish): Canada, Venezuela, Cuba, Argentina, and the Dominican Republic.
Those same six teams, plus Puerto Rico and, of course, the host Mexican team, have all now qualified for the Pan Am Games two years from now.
Recently, three teams from Europe qualified for the 2010 ISF world championship. The Netherlands defeated Great Britain at the XVI European Championship Women “A,” which was played in Spain. The Czech Republic finished third, meaning that trio has now booked itself a place in next year’s marquee women’s fast pitch tournament. That will mark the first time that any of the ISF’s four world championships (women, men, junior women, junior men) will have been held in the United States since 1996 when the ninth edition of the men’s world championshiptook place in Michigan.
Additional entries for the 2010 ISF Women’s World Championship will come from Africa (two), Asia (three), and Oceania (two).
1. USA | 11. Mexico |
2. Canada | 12. El Salvador |
3. Venezuela | 13. Aruba |
4. Cuba | 14. Netherlands Antilles |
5. Argentina | 15. British Virgin Islands |
6. Dominican Republic | 16. Belize |
7. Puerto Rico | 17. Ecuador |
8. Colombia | 18. Jamaica |
9. Brazil | 19. Panama |
10. Guatemala | 20. Peru |
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