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SOFTBALL ADMINISTRATOR PASSES ON

Polelo Masola, former Secretary-General of the Limpopo Softball Association and Manager of the Senior South African Men Team suddenly passed away last week. The softball fraternity of South Africa and the world extends their condolence to Polelo's family and the Limpopo Softball Association.

MAYOR hits home run for SOFTBALL

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Australia wins World Title !!!

New Zealand, lost the World Title they held since 1996 by going down 5-0 to Australia yesterday in Saskatoon, Canada.

23/07 SA Men lose 10 - 1 to Venezuela
22/07 SA Men lose 7 - 0 to Canada
21/07 SA Men lose 16 - 7 to Puerto Rico
20/07 SA Men lose 11 - 2 to Australia
19/07 SA Men lose 8 - 0 to Argentina
18/07 SA Men beat Indonesia 7 - 0
17/07 SA Men lose 8 - 6 to Czech Republic

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Prague awaits our Under 16 Girls

It is all systems go for the Inaugural World Youth Cup for 16 and Under girls next month.

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Giant Killers are Limpopo Champions

In their last games Giant Killers beat Spikes and Wild Beasts to Secure the Limpopo Championships

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SA Women All Star and training squad announced

The SA Women squad to start preparing for the 2010 World Championship in the USA was announced by Basil Peters, convenor of selectors. Meanwhile the weather prevented the male selectors from finalising a new squad in preparation for 2013.

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Softball South Africa congratulates the Ministry

The President of Softball South Africa, Guillo Marapjane sent the following message
to the Ministry of Sport"The softball community wish to welcome back to the Sport and Recreation South Africa and the sporting fraternity, Minister the Rev. Makhenkesi Stofile and his Deputy Minister Gert Oosthuizen.

We wish to congratulate them on their renewed mandate to further their movement to propel sport to the highest levels"

SA Men ready to depart for Canada

The SA Men squad is preparing to depart for Canada on the 11 June.
A few unforeseen changes were forced upon the squad.

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Thelma Achilles heads new schools sub-committee

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Eastern Gauteng and Western Province are South African Champions

Everything from results, stats and photos can be found on the championship website

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Gauteng preparing for Nationals

The National Provincial Championships starts on Monday, 16 March and continues until Saturday, 21 March. Watch this space for fixtures, results, photos and tournament news.

Giant Killers share the spoils in Botswana

Seleteng Giant Killers of Limpopo shared the spoils with Wel

ls of Botswana in the OSEG - AP Diamond Classic Tournament held last weekend in Gaberone, Botswana. In the quarter finals Killers beat Scramblers 7 - 3. Killers then went on to defeat Botswana Defence Force(BDF) 4 - 1 in the semis. In the final Giant Killers and Wells were locked at 3-3 when the game was abandoned due to poor light. The two teams were declared JOINT CHAMPIONS.

Under 16 Team SA Announced

The South African Under 16 Girls team to participate in the ISF's Easton Youth Girls World Cup in Prague has been announced at the conclusion of the trials held in Bloemfontein the past weekend.

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Under 16 Girls Trials for Bloemfontein

South Africa will participate in the Easton Foundation Youth Softball
World Cup in Prague from 9 - 16 August 2009.

The team will be selected at the trials scheduled for Bloemfontein from 13-15 February 2009.

Invited to attend the trials are the Under 15 All Star Team selected at the Schools Summer Games in Pretoria in December 2008, the girls in the Under 17 All Star Team selected at the School Summer Games in Pretoria in December 2008 who are 16 up to the 31/12/2009 as well as 5 players - 16 and under two (2) 17 year old players nominated by Provinces.

SA Men National team announced

Team South Africa to participate in the Men's World Championships was announced by the President of Softball South Africa at the Gordon Monk Tournament on Sunday, 25 January 2009.

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Noreen Wallace on top of the World

Noreen Wallace of Cape Town was officially appointed to the standing committee, Women in Umpiring forum.

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Lynn Alexander - Our Ambassador

Western Provinces’ stalwart, Lynn Alexander, was selected by the ISF as one of twelve females that will complement the current efforts of the ISF’s BackSoftball campaign.

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Gauteng preparing for Tournament

The new season will see a combined Gauteng Province emerging. Central, Eastern and Northern Gauteng will in future exist as the Gauteng Softball Association. Their first test will be the hosting of the National Provincial Championships in Edenvale, Gauteng, from 16 - 21 March 2009. All details will be published on this site.

Top echelon of SSA Executive stays the same

The only change to the Executive Committee was the removal of the additional members. The following members retained their positions in the leadership of softball in our country.

President:   Guillo Marapjane
1st Vice President:   Noore Nacerodien
2nd Vice President:   Basil Peters
Secretary General:   Denise Paulsen
Treasurer:   Mashilo Matsetela
Technical:   Vincent Maoeng