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WILL KOWALSKI
Sports Editor/Asst. Editor

Manager Kevin Kemerling’s

Battle Creek Shamrocks adult city

league baseball team played in the

first National Amateur Baseball

Federation Charlie Blackburn Major

Division World Series to take place

outside of B.C. since 2013 last week,

competing in the NABF World Series

that was held in Naperville, IL.

The Series exited the Cereal City

after a 10-year run last August,

when Terry Newton of the Southern

Michigan Amateur Baseball

Association announced that the

SMABA would no longer be able

to host the series due to the associa-

tion’s aging membership.

Newton was the main man behind

Battle Creek getting another adult-

aged baseball world series in the

first place, by the way, after the Stan

Musial World Series (American

Amateur Baseball Congress-

affiliated) left town in the mid-2000s

after close to 60 years in the Cereal

City.

More on there being no adult-aged

world series again in B.C. will appear

in a future edition.

As far as the Shamorocks’ recent

NABF World Series situation in

Illinois ...

To get to the Series, the Battle

Creek-based squad placed first during

the city league’s regular season, and

then defeated the B.C. Merchants 2-1

in a best-of-three playoff series.

The Shamrocks then won an NABF

regional in Manistee to advance to

the World Series.

However, the Shamrocks’ stay in

Illinois was short-lived, as the club

lost all three of its pool play games

Wednesday through Friday, July

31-Aug. 2, and was eliminated from

further action.

In those pool play contests, the

Shamrocks lost to the Hackensack

(NJ) Troast 9-4; lost to the Buffalo

(NY) Battistoni Diesel 8-1; and lost

Members of the Battle Creek Shamrocks adult-aged baseball team are

shown in their dugout area during the recent city league playoffs – and with

left-handed hitting Shamrock Jacob Waffle (2) batting at the plate. (Shopper

News photo by Will Kowalski)

Shamrocks get taste of

NABF World Series in Illinois

10-0 to the Beecher (IL) Muskies.

Only the top two teams in each of

the tourney’s three four-team pools

advanced to quarterfinal and semifi-

nal games.

In the quarterfinals, the Chicago

Clout defeated the Lombard (IL)

Orioles 12-9; and Beecher defeated

Brooklyn (NY) Sports Fever 9-4.

Note: Buffalo and the New Lenox

(IL) Pumas received quarterfinal

byes after pool play.

Then, in the semifinals, Buffalo

eliminated Chicago 7-5; and Beecher

eliminated New Lenox 7-5.

And finally, in last Sunday’s title

game, Buffalo defeated Beecher 8-6

for the 2024 NABF World Series

championship.

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