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Group Canada stays within the hunt for high spot on the Canada Cup girls’s softball event heading into championship Sunday at Softball Metropolis.
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Coach Kaleigh Rafter’s crew takes on Group Italy in a 1 p.m. sport on the Surrey complicated, and the winner faces U.S. collegiate all-star staff TC Colorado at 3:30 p.m. for a spot within the 6 p.m. championship matchup with Group Japan.
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Canada’s prepping for the World Cup Group Stage event, which fits July 22-26 in Castions di Strada and Buttrio, Italy. Italy and Japan are each at that event. The World Cup finals are July 2024 in Italy.
“Any time you’re within the Canada Cup you wish to be enjoying on Sunday. That’s the large purpose — can we play on Sunday and provides ourselves a shot?” Rafter stated after an 11-4, six-inning win over Mexico in a loser out sport late Saturday. “We’ll get to see hopefully two groups that we’ll should play developing at worlds so any data we will get and any opporutnty we will get to play them is necessary.”
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Canada blew the sport open towards Mexico with a six-run third inning, a body wherein they despatched 11 hitters to the plate and Mexico wanted to make use of three pitchers. Lead-off batter Kelsey Harshman opened up proceedings with an reverse subject triple that curled simply contained in the left subject foul line. She introduced in a run later with a bases-loaded stroll. Different highlights included a two-run single to left by Erika Polidori.
Kianna Jones hammered a solo dwelling run to proper centre within the sixth inning that helped institute the mercy rule.
Canada misplaced 2-1 in eight innings to TC Colorado earlier Saturday in playoff motion.
Canada beat Italy 7-4 in pool play on Tuesday at Softball Metropolis. Emma Entzminger had a two-run homer and an RBI double, whereas Janet Leung had a solo homer and an RBI single.
Rafter’s staff fell 8-1 to Japan in six innings in pool play and 8-0 to TC Colorado in 5 innings in pool play.
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