{"id":24088,"date":"2014-08-02T12:29:33","date_gmt":"2014-08-02T19:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=24088"},"modified":"2014-08-02T13:26:35","modified_gmt":"2014-08-02T20:26:35","slug":"ottoinfocus-long-beach-wolfpack-hungry-for-another-nafa-world-series-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=24088","title":{"rendered":"OttoInFocus: Long Beach Wolfpack hungry for another NAFA World Series title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ottoinfocus.com\/?p=11826\">From Otto in Focus<\/a><br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12650\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12650\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ottoinfocus.com\/?p=11826\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/ottoinfocus-300x72.jpg\" alt=\"Click logo for original story at Otto in Focus website.\" width=\"300\" height=\"72\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12650\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/ottoinfocus-300x72.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/ottoinfocus.jpg 825w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12650\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click logo for original story at Otto in Focus website.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<p>LONG BEACH, Calif. \u2013 Twelve months a go, the Long Beach Wolfpack won the NAFA A Division World Series championship in Des Moines, Iowa. They were a first-year ball club playing in their first NAFA World Series. And they came away with their first World Series championship.  But that was last year; it\u2019s time to move one; time to challenge for back-to-back titles.<\/p>\n<p>Wolfpack manager Jesse Mullen believes if his team plays up to its potential, they should be in the hunt.  <a href=\"LONG BEACH, Calif. \u2013 Twelve months a go, the Long Beach Wolfpack won the NAFA A Division World Series championship in Des Moines, Iowa.  They were a first-year ball club playing in their first NAFA World Series. And they came away with their first World Series championship.  But that was last year; it\u2019s time to move one; time to challenge for back-to-back titles.  Wolfpack manager Jesse Mullen believes if his team plays up to its potential, they should be in the hunt. Click OttoInFocus at right to view entire story and view photos.\n\n\n\n<blockquote>The 36-team A-Major Division World Series Starts on Thursday, Aug. 7, and ends on the 10th with the championship slated for 1:15 p.m. on Sunday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_24045\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24045\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nafafastpitch.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/NAFA-2014-WS-logo-250x300.jpg\" alt=\"Click logo for official NAFA website\" width=\"250\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24045\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/NAFA-2014-WS-logo-250x300.jpg 250w, http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/NAFA-2014-WS-logo.jpg 432w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24045\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click logo for official NAFA website<\/figcaption><\/figure><a href=\"http:\/\/ottoinfocus.com\/?p=11826\">From Bob Otto<\/a>:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Otto in Focus LONG BEACH, Calif. \u2013 Twelve months a go, the Long Beach Wolfpack won the NAFA A Division World Series championship in Des Moines, Iowa. They were a first-year ball club playing in their first NAFA World Series. And they came away with their first World Series championship. But that was last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24045,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24088","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nafa","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24088","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=24088"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24107,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24088\/revisions\/24107"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}