Longest softball fastpitch game -
Caronno Rheavendors sets world record
Caronno Pertusella, Italy -- Two coed teams (men
and women ranging from ages starting at 20 to over 60 years
old), named Fettuccine and Tortellini, played
for 120 hours (the equivalent of five days), during an event
organized by the local club AB Caronno Softball Rheavendors
at the softball field Francesco Nespoli - setting the new
world record for the Longest
Softball Fastpitch Game.
Photo: Gergana Handjiyska bats during
the marathon event that her team won. Photo by Franco Bagattini
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photo)
"It was an incredible experience. - said
Giorgio Turconi, player as well as head of the Organizing
Committee - Playing together for so a long time created the
ideal conditions for establishing great relationships among
the participants, that will last forever."
The participants in the World's Longest
Softball Fastpitch Game were men and women ranging
from ages starting at 20 to over 60 years old. In total there
were 54 players from nine countries: Bulgaria, Cuba, France,
Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Slovenia, Spain, and Venezuela.
Gergana Handjiyska of Bulgaria played in
the World's Longest
Softball Fastpitch Game and said, “It was just great,
people from different countries… playing on shifts for six
days, united by the love of softball. This is exactly what
we were lobbying (around) for the past few years and to be
part of (the long game) was just amazing.”
Sleeping was done in tents at the field,
as the participants were not allowed to leave the playing
facility. In the end the teams played together for the final
five hours, however.
The game was umpired by officials
of the Italian Baseball and Softball Federation, the whole
game was recorded by official score keepers of the Italian
Baseball and Softball Federation as well.
The entire game was also recorded
on hard disk using a high definition camera, to keep memory
of the event, and for certification purposes.
The total played time was 120
hours and the final score was Tortellini 762 - Fettuccine
749. More on www.abcaronno.it
The Longest
Softball Fastpitch Game in The World was organized
by the local club, Caronno Rheavendors, and mainly their president,
Giorgio Turconi, who is helping with development in the European
Softball Federation commissions and is also an active contributor
to the work of the Italian Federation.
The previous Guinness World Record for the
Longest
Softball Fastpitch Game was set last year in Alberta
(Canada) at 115 hours, three minutes long.
The world record was sponsored by: Gruppo
Alpini Caronno Pertusella Bariola, Rhea Vendors Group spa,
Provincia di Varese, Comune di Caronno Pertusella, Federazione
Italiana Baseball Softball, Elmo spa.
Player's list:
Cristina Alberton, Guido Ballarini, Giulio
Bettale, Mauro Bonzi, Alessia Cagna, Bruno Campagna, Jacopo
Cassin, Angelo Cogliati, Ilaria Colombo, Marco Corbella, Alessandro
Cuzzolin, Loredana Fabbri, Nadia Facchinetti, Stefano Faccin,
Riccardo Farisi, Carlo Fiorentini, Nicoletta Giappino, Davide
Guerrera , Roberto Guerrera , Rinaldo Dossena, Sara Marostica,
Giulio Macario, Alberto Olgiati, Emanuele Palomba, Alessandro
Peralma, Alberto Pizzi, Enrico Pollastri, Emanuele Rizzo,
Giuliano Rocca,Fabio Sparesato, Paolo Tacchini, Angelo Tenconi,
Simona Teruzzi, Alberto Todi, Alberto Turconi, Alfonso Turconi,
Giorgio Turconi - all from Italy; Ricardo Mata (Italy-Venezuela),
Argenis Blanco and Wilmer Colina (Venezuela), Aleksandrina
Bogdanova, Teodora Simeonova, Gergana Handjiyska (Bulgaria),
Miriam Chasserieau, Roger Martinez, Thomas Masse, Patricia
Wiki (France). Manuel Cortès (Cuba), Leonardo Cruz
Alzuru and Jorge Luis Dominguez (Spain), Matej Hafner and
Robert Mandic (Slovenia), Tom Hanswillemenke (Germany), and
Liam Morrison (United Kingdom).