Softball at the 2015 Pan American Games – Women's tournament

The women's softball tournament at the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto, Canada, held at the Pan Am Ball Park in Ajax, Ontario from July 19 to 26.^[1]

Softball – Women's tournament at the 2015 Pan American Games
Venue	Pan Am Ball Park
Dates	July 19 – 26
Competitors	90 from 6 nations
Medalists
Canada    United States    Puerto Rico
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For these Games, the women 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.^[2]

Qualification

A total of six women'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 August 2013.^[3] Each team can contain a maximum of fifteen athletes.^[4]

Summary

Event	Date	Location	Vacancies	Qualified
Host Nation	—	—	1	Canada
2013 Pan American Championship	August 10–18	Guaynabo	5	United States  Cuba  Puerto Rico  Dominican Republic  Brazil
TOTAL			6

Rosters

Main article: Softball at the 2015 Pan American Games – Women's team rosters

At the start of tournament, all six participating countries had up to 15 players on their rosters.^[4]

•  Brazil
•  Canada
•  Cuba
•  Dominican Republic
•  Puerto Rico
•  United States

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Women's tournament	Canada Jenna Caira Jocelyn Cater Larissa Franklin Sara Groenewegen Megan Gurski Karissa Hovinga Joey Lye Erika Polidori Kaleigh Rafter Sara Riske Jenn Salling Megan Timpf Logan White Natalie Wideman Jen Yee	United States Valerie Arioto Ally Carda Raven Chavanne Amanda Chidester Kellie Fox Lauren Gibson Janelle Lindvall Haylie McCleney Jessica Moore Michelle Moultrie Sara Nevins Sierra Romero Kelsey Stewart Janie Takeda Jaclyn Traina	Puerto Rico Karla Claudio Dayanira Diaz Quianna Diaz-Patterson Elicia D'Orazio Sahvanna Jaquish Galis Lozada Yairka Moran Yahelis Munoz Kiara Nazario Aleshia Ocasio Nicole Osterman Gabriela Palacios Shemiah Sanchez Monica Santos Yazmin Torres

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.^[4]

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.^[4]

Results

The official detailed schedule was revealed on May 1, 2015.^[5]

All times are Eastern Daylight Time (UTC−4)

Preliminary round

The Pan Am Ball Park in Ajax, the venue for the women's softball competition

Team	Pld	W	L	RF	RA	RD	Qualification
United States	5	5	0	43	4	+39	Qualified for the semifinals
Canada	5	4	1	21	14	+7
Puerto Rico	5	3	2	18	17	+1
Brazil	5	2	3	7	19	−12
Cuba	5	1	4	10	23	−13
Dominican Republic	5	0	5	14	36	−22

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

19 July 2015 14:00	Dominican Republic	1 – 3	Cuba	President’s Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark, Ajax Attendance: 2,895
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19 July 2015 16:30	Canada	6 – 0	Brazil	President’s Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark, Ajax Attendance: 2,234
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19 July 2015 19:00	Puerto Rico	2 – 9	United States	President’s Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark, Ajax Attendance: 234
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20 July 2015 14:00	Brazil	0 – 7	United States	President’s Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark, Ajax Attendance: 502
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20 July 2015 16:30	Puerto Rico	11 – 5	Dominican Republic	President’s Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark, Ajax Attendance: 375
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20 July 2015 19:00	Canada	5 – 0	Cuba	President’s Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark, Ajax Attendance: 546
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21 July 2015 14:00	Puerto Rico	3 – 2	Cuba	President’s Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark, Ajax Attendance: 832
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21 July 2015 16:30	Brazil	2 – 1	Dominican Republic	President’s Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark, Ajax Attendance: 2,900
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21 July 2015 19:00	Canada	0 – 7	United States	President’s Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark, Ajax Attendance: 2,900
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22 July 2015 14:00	Puerto Rico	2 – 0	Brazil	President’s Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark, Ajax Attendance: 460
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22 July 2015 16:30	Cuba	2 – 9	United States	President’s Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark, Ajax Attendance: 450
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22 July 2015 19:00	Canada	9 – 7	Dominican Republic	President’s Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark, Ajax Attendance: 1,200
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23 July 2015 14:00	Dominican Republic	0 – 11	United States	President’s Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark, Ajax Attendance: 112
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23 July 2015 16:30	Brazil	5 – 3	Cuba	President’s Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark, Ajax Attendance: 347
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23 July 2015 19:00	Canada	1 – 0	Puerto Rico	President’s Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark, Ajax Attendance: 2,050
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Medal round

	Semifinals					Bronze Medal					Gold Medal
	1	United States	5								1	United States	2
	2	Canada	2								2	Canada	4(8)
						2	Canada	7
						3	Puerto Rico	4
	3	Puerto Rico	12(4)
	4	Brazil	2

Semifinals

24 July 2015 16:30	Puerto Rico	12 – 2 (4)	Brazil	President’s Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark, Ajax Attendance: 1,050
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24 July 2015 19:00	United States	5 – 2	Canada	President’s Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark, Ajax Attendance: 2,145
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Bronze Medal Game

25 July 2015 17:00	Canada	7 – 4	Puerto Rico	President’s Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark, Ajax Attendance: 2,267
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Gold Medal Game

26 July 2015 11:00	United States	2 – 4 (8)	Canada	President’s Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark, Ajax Attendance: 3,000
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2015 Pan American Games winners
Canada 2nd title

Final standings

Rank	Team	Record
	Canada	6 – 2
	United States	6 – 1
	Puerto Rico	4 – 3
4	Brazil	2 – 4
5	Cuba	1 – 4
6	Dominican Republic	0 – 5