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Sporting News

BATTLE

CREEK

SHOPPER

WILL KOWALSKI
Sports Editor/Asst. Editor

Manager Kevin Kemerling’s
Battle Creek Shamrocks adult city
league baseball team is represent-
ing the Cereal City in the National
Amateur Baseball Federation’s
Charlie Blackburn Major Division
World Series that’s taking place now
through Sunday in Naperville, IL.
The host team for the Series is the
Lombard (IL) Orioles, and it’s a Series
that is taking place for the first time
since 2013 outside of Battle Creek.
The Terry Newton-led Southern
Michigan Amateur Baseball
Association was the host group for
the Series from 2013 until last year,
with 10 championships decided at
Battle Creek’s Bailey Park (there was
no Series in 2020 due to Covid-19).
However, Newton said at the end
of last August’s World Series here
that the 2023 one would be the final
one in B.C. due to the SMABA
members all getting older and the
association being unable to put in
the time and effort to for B.C. to
continue to be the host site for the
Blackburn WS.
As a result, the winner of the recent
Adult City League playoffs between

The Battle Creek Shamrocks adult city league baseball team is shown after

winning an NABF regional tourney in Manistee last weekend. (Photo provided by

Kelsie Kemerling)

Kollin Kemerling is shown sliding

into home plate with a run for the

Battle Creek Shamrocks in the

third and deciding game of the

city league playoffs against the

Battle Creek Merchants last week at

Bailey Park’s Nichols Field. (Shopper

News photo by Will Kowalski)

B.C. Shamrocks battle way into NABF World Series

B.C. Shamrocks pitcher Cam Reichel
shows his form on the mound during
playoff action last week. Reichel was
the winning hurler in three Shamrock
postseason games over a five-day
stretch. (Shopper News photo by Will Kowalski) See SHAMROCKS on 42

the first-place B.C. Shamrocks and

the second-place B.C. Merchants

didn’t automatically become the host

team for this year’s Series. Instead,

the winner – the Shamrocks – had to

go to an NABF regional tourney in

Manistee last weekend to qualify for

the Series.

And that it did.

Following are the city playoff

scores and the regional scores from

recent action:

CITY LEAGUE PLAYOFFS

• Monday, July 22: B.C.
  Shamrocks 2, B.C. Merchants 1;
  B.C. Merchants 11, B.C. Shamrocks
  2 (both games at Bailey Park’s
  Morrison Field).


• Tuesday, July 23: B.C.
  Shamrocks 8, B.C. Merchants 7.
  Note: Shamrocks right-handed
  pitcher Cam Reichel was the winning
  pitcher in two games, pitching back-
  to-back complete-game triumphs
  on back-to-back days ... Last year,
  the Merchants were the host team
  for the World Series in B.C., and the
  Shamrocks were a Series at-large bid.
  NABF Manistee Regional


• Thursday, July 25: B.C.
  Shamrocks 6, Midland Tribe 3.


• Friday, July 26: Midland Tribe 9,
  B.C. Shamrocks 2; B.C. Shamrocks

8, Midland Tribe 4 (Shamrocks win

championship).

Note: The winning pitchers for

B.C. in the three victories were Max

Jackson, Mark Kalahar and Reichel

... The Shamrocks take an 18-3

record into the World Series.

Shamrocks Manager Kemerling

said, “We as a team are excited to

AccessVision’s fall

prep sports schedule

of televised events

AccessVision TV’s Fall 2024

high school sports television

schedule will begin with cover-

age of the Boys’ All-City Soccer

Tournament that’s scheduled to

take place Friday, Aug. 23 at

Lakeview High.

AccessVision executive direc-

tor Jason Augenstein said in a

late-July press/media release

that each “Game of the Week”

will be recorded for transmis-

sion on Comcast channels 17

and 917, on U-Verse channel

99 and on http://www.accessvision.tv

Live-17 beginning the following

Monday at 8 p.m., on Saturday

at 9 a.m. and 7 p.m., and on

Sunday at 3 p.m.

And, Augenstein noted, if

there is a second game during

the week, it will air the follow-

ing Thursday at 10 a.m. and 4

p.m., on Saturday at noon, and

on Sunday at 9 a.m. – with the

second-game situation being

designated with an asterisk

(*) in the complete Fall 2024

AccessVision prep sports TV

schedule that follows soon in

this article. Also note that the

time listed in the following

event schedule is the time that

the event will take place, not the

time that the event will be tele-

vised on AccessVision.

The press release additionally

said that interested viewers can

also watch past games online

at any time by going to http://www.

accessvision.tv and clicking the

“On Demand” button and scroll-

ing down to High School Sports

• at which point an interested
  viewer can choose the specific
  game that they want to watch.

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