{"id":21964,"date":"2013-08-19T09:09:14","date_gmt":"2013-08-19T16:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=21964"},"modified":"2013-08-19T09:19:30","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T16:19:30","slug":"long-beach-wolfpacks-hitting-comes-alive-to-take-nafa-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=21964","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach Wolfpack\u2019s hitting comes alive to take NAFA &#8220;A&#8221; championship (Story by Bob Otto)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_21750\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21750\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ottoinfocus.com\/?p=10035\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/NAFA.WS_.logo_.1web1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Click to visit Bob Otto&#039;s &quot;Otto in Focus&quot; site for the complete story.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-21750\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-21750\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click to visit Bob Otto&#8217;s &#8220;Otto in Focus&#8221; site for the complete story.<\/figcaption><\/figure><strong>Debbie Day, Joe Janicke MVP&#8217;s for Wolfpack<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>by Bob Otto on August 19th, 2013<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>wolfpack.celebrate.254web The Long Beach Wolfpack celebrate their 7-3 NAFA A World Series victory over the Kansas City Outlaws, Sunday, at Urbandale\u2019s Walker-Johnstoton Softball Complex. Photo By BOB OTTO<\/p>\n<p>URBANDALE, IOWA \u2013 Getting shutout doesn\u2019t sit so well with the Long Beach, California Wolfpack. Especially after averaging nearly nine runs in reaching the championship game of the NAFA A World Series with a 5-0 record.<\/p>\n<p>But then they ran into a wall. An 18-year-old wall named Ethan Johnston pitching for the Kansas City Outlaws.<\/p>\n<p>The right-hander from New Zealand who turned 18 in the World Series, saddled the Wolfpack with a three-hit, 6-0 loss in Sunday\u2019s first meeting. Now with one loss a piece in the double-knockout tournament, the two ball clubs played a second game to decide who would wear the crown of \u201cWorld Series champions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ottoinfocus.com\/?p=10035\"><strong>Click here to continue reading and to view photos.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Debbie Day, Joe Janicke MVP&#8217;s for Wolfpack by Bob Otto on August 19th, 2013 wolfpack.celebrate.254web The Long Beach Wolfpack celebrate their 7-3 NAFA A World Series victory over the Kansas City Outlaws, Sunday, at Urbandale\u2019s Walker-Johnstoton Softball Complex. Photo By BOB OTTO URBANDALE, IOWA \u2013 Getting shutout doesn\u2019t sit so well with the Long Beach, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,20],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21964","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nafa","8":"category-so-cal","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21964"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21967,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21964\/revisions\/21967"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}