Softball at the 2015 Pan American Games – Men's tournament explained

Event:Softball – Men's tournament
Games:2015
Venue:Pan Am Ball Park
Dates:July 12 – 18
Competitors:90
Nations:6
Prev:2003
Next:2019

The men's softball tournament at the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto, Canada, was held at the Pan Am Ball Park in Ajax, Ontario from July 12 to 18.[1]

Men's softball returned to the Pan American Games sports program after last being competed in 2003.[2]

For these Games, the men competed in a 6-team tournament. The teams were grouped into one single pool and all teams played each other in a round-robin preliminary round. The top four teams would advance to the semifinals.[3]

Qualification

A total of six men's team qualified to compete at the games. Canada as host nation qualified automatically, along with the top five nations at the qualification event held in October 2014.[4] Each team can contain a maximum of fifteen athletes.[5]

Summary

EventDateLocationVacanciesQualified
Host Nation1
2014 Pan American ChampionshipOctober 25 – November 1 Paraná5



TOTAL 6

Rosters

See main article: Softball at the 2015 Pan American Games – Men's team rosters. At the start of tournament, all six participating countries had up to 15 players on their rosters.[5]

Men's tournament
Ryan Boland
Sean Cleary
Jeff Ellsworth
Brad Ezekiel
Ian Fehrman
Jason Hill
Brandon Horn
Paul Koert
Derek Mayson
Steve Mullaley
Mathieu Roy
Jason Sanford
Kevin Schellenberg
Andy Skelton
Ryan Wolfe

Arturo Acacio
Yeider Chirinos
Joan Colombo
Rafael Flores
Pedro Gonzalez
Ramon Jones
Jorge Lima
Edwin Linares
Tulio Linares
Iran Paez
Luiger Pinto
Kerlis Rivero
Rogelio Sequera
Erick Urbaneja
John Zambrano

Mauricio Caceres
Santiago Carril
Sebastian Gervasutti
Gustavo Godoy
Manuel Godoy
Roman Godoy
Juan Malarczuk
Huemul Mata
Teo Migliavacca
Mariano Montero
Pablo Montero
Bruno Motroni
Fernando Petric
Juan Potolicchio
Juan Zara

Competition format

In the first round of the competition, teams were divided into one pool of six teams, and play followed round robin format with each of the teams playing all other teams in the pool once.[5]

Following the completion of the pool games, the top four teams advanced to a page playoff round consisting of two semifinal games, and the final and grand final. All games were played over seven innings.[5]

Results

The official detailed schedule was revealed on May 1, 2015.[6]

All times are Eastern Daylight Time (UTC−4)

Preliminary round

Home team in each game is listed first.

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Medal round

Semifinals

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Final

Grand Final

Final standings

width=40Rankwidth=180Teamwidth=60Record
7 – 0
5 – 3
3 – 4
42 – 4
52 – 3
60 – 5

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Pan Am Games Detailed Competition Schedule. 15 September 2014. toronto2015.org. TO2015. 16 September 2014.
  2. Web site: Men's and Women's Softball Selected to 2015 Pan American Games Program . February 12, 2013 . softball.bc.ca/ . Softball BC . October 28, 2014.
  3. News: McNair . Brian . 1 May 2015 . Softball medals expected for Canada at Pan Am Games in Ajax . durhamregion.com . Ajax, Ontario . 10 May 2015 .
  4. News: 1 November 2014 . Throwing error costly for Canada at Pan American softball tournament . . . 2 November 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20141102191339/http://www.theguardian.pe.ca/Sports/2014-11-01/article-3925335/Throwing-error-costly-for-Canada-at-Pan-American-softball-tournament/1 . 2 November 2014 .
  5. Web site: Sport Technical Manual Softball. scribd.com . . 8 March 2015.
  6. News: 1 May 2015 . Pan Am softball schedule features Canada, U.S. rivalry. . Toronto, Canada . 10 May 2015 .