Former Vaquero, Westridge Coach Kelly Korras prepares for international softball stage with South Africa

Tournament action kicks off July 13 with South Africa taking the field at 1 p.m. against Argentina. South Africa is one of 16 teams in the tournament divided into pools of eight and is guaranteed seven games of pool play with the top-four teams from each section advancing to elimination play, which runs July 20-22. South Africa, in its pool, will play Venezuela (July 14 at 11 a.m.), China (July 15 at 4:30 p.m.), the United States (July 16 at 2 p.m.), Netherlands (July 17 at 4 p.m.) Puerto Rico (July 18 at 11 a.m.) and Czech Republic (July 19 at 11:30 a.m.).

All 66 games of the tournament will be available to be viewed live or on demand for free of charge at http://www.sportscanada.tv.

South Africa is in a tough pool with the defending and 12-time champion United States squad, China, Czech Republic, Argentina, Netherlands, Puerto Rico and Venezuela all battling for the top four spots.

"The main goal is to make it to the elimination round, which will be tough because we have U.S. and China in our pool," said Korras, adding she will mostly be pitching and playing some outfield this summer. "The USA game is going to be our toughest for sure. Those girls have played for so many years in NCAA Division I and while playing Division II [at Chaminade] I always wondered what it would be like in Division I."