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triercurys repeat as ISC || champs Listuwels Trevor Selp homers in Hamlsivn’s 74 win over lizvisivck in final BY PATRICK WIS AND CHUCK KUEPFER The Harrismn Mercurys are still World Champions. The local men‘s fastball squad â€" winch includes Listowel's Trevor Seip in its lineup â€" won its second consecutive Interna- tional Softball Congress (ISC division) title last week in Fargo, North Dakota The Mercurys reached the final undefeated going 4-0 in the preliminary round of Ihe tournament and 3-0 in sudden- duth playoff games leading up ll) Friday afternoon's champi- ouship game. Harriston went headroâ€" head with South Perth Fastball imgue opponents and also uni defeated Tavistock Merchants in the final, where homenrns by Seip and Harrith native Ryan Fisk powered the ‘ Mer- this past WEEK The Hams- Curvs m a 7-4 victory. ton Mercury outfleiderwas ice German (Smilax/rue) named in neAir startai the game on the mound Tournament team as DH. and Nick Goeu (Elmira) came Teammate Scott Smith of in and shut the Merchants down Belmure w named the for the last five innings. tournament‘s outstanding Hurlch Scott Smith of Bel- pitcher and was also named more and Semi Winship of London combined for a noâ€"hitâ€" ter in the semi-finals against Appleton. Wisconsin, Friday morning AnDleton's only run Confimwdfiom page 13 in the 3-1 Mercurys' win came in the fourth inning, oilr a walk. followed by a ground- out which advanced the runâ€" ner and a sacrifice fly to score him. The Mercurys, having won the ISC ll tide last year in Wisconsin. automatically qualified for this year‘s event Odrer members of the team at the ISC 1] tournament were: Darren Work and Terry Mar- tin of Elmira: Scott Walls, Brent Cochrane and Brooke Cochrane of Harriston; lere~ my Creedon of Teeswater, Kevin MauKinuou of Hur. Geoff Gunson of Ridgetown; loel Martin and Aaron Small of Palmerston: Ryan Diljee of Fergus; Curtis Finder of Mount Forest manager Rick Fisk of Haniston and the Coaching staff of Jii u Willis of GREEDON NAMED MVP Jeremy Creedon otTeeswa- ter was named MVP of the World lSB Ii Toumament held in Fargo, North Dakota I to theAll»T0urrtarnent team in that position. ‘ ‘tdliiiflilli. Harristh defends World fastball title London and Trevor .lutzi of Milverton ROAD TO VICTORY The Mercury’s opened the toumey with an 84) vimry over Devils Lake. North Dakota. Scott Smith pitched the shutout. allowing three hits and sinking out 16 in six in- nings of work Ryan Diljee homered and drove in two runs for Harris- ton, while Seip was 2-for-4, including a triple, and had three RBIs Jeremy Creedon went 340M and added an RBI. In their second game of the toumamcnt. the Mcrcurys erased 2 1-0 deficit after three innings with eight unan- swered runs enroure to an 8-1 victory over Pedraste, PA. Han-istmi got the hats going in the fourth. Walls hit a twoRBl and Curtis Finder singled to put the Mercurys in from 3-1 Han-iston never looked back. adding five runs ofi five hits in the fifth. A lhrue~run mlly in the sev- enth inning gave the Mervin-y: a 4-3 victory over Appleton. Wisconsin in their third game, liarriston trailed 3-1 heading into their final atâ€"hat, before RBI triples by Walls and Small tied the gamer Diljee's NIH“! RBI Single drove in the winning run. The Mercury: wrapped up round-robin play with an 370 win over Albuquerque, New Mexico. Small, Martin and Cree- don banged out homeruns for the Mercurys, while hurlerlne German allowed one hit and struck out I5 for the win Haniston squeaked out a 2-1 victory over Hermann Mis- souri in their first game of the playofi round Martin’s two-RBI single proved to be the difi'erenoe in the game. He registered three of liar. nston's five hits, while Croc- don was 2-for-2. Smtt Smith held Hermann to one hIL striking out ll batters in the win. in the sixth lifted the Mer- curys to a 3-2 win 0ch Lloyd- minsrer,Alberta and a benh in the tournament semifinals. Small homered and went 3- forA for the Mercurys. which out-hit the Scope Dodgers 8» 2. Scott Smith picked up his fourth win of the tournament strildng out nine and allowing two hits in five innings of work Sec” 5“ Finder's ground-nile double .2005 ?