{"id":28851,"date":"2015-08-18T13:50:25","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T20:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=28851"},"modified":"2015-08-18T14:00:48","modified_gmt":"2015-08-18T21:00:48","slug":"kingston-axemen-place-5-on-2015-isc-ii-all-tournament-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=28851","title":{"rendered":"Kingston Axemen place 5 on 2015 ISC II All-Tournament Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Kingston.Axeman_300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Kingston.Axeman_300-300x160.jpg\" alt=\"Kingston.Axeman_300\" width=\"300\" height=\"160\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-28852\" \/><\/a><em>From Sportsgate Kingston<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Five members of the Kingston Axemen were named to the ISC II All-Tournament Team at the 2015 International Softball Congress World Tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The team&#8217;s top four batters average-wise during ISC II play following the team&#8217;s elimination from the main tournament \u2014 <strong>Jamie Purdon, Jarrett Williams, Brad Pender and Jamie Thompson \u2014 plus pitcher Mitch Hardy<\/strong> were honoured.<\/p>\n<p>The Axemen posted a 4-2 record in ISC II play after going 1-2 in the main tournament. They lost 13-6 to the Wiarton Nationals in the ISC II final on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Kingston LF Purdon paced the team offensively with 13 hits in six games, for a .565 batting average. His hit total led all ISC II players. He hit a home run, collected four RBIs and scored six runs.<\/p>\n<p>Williams, a third baseman from Newboro, had nine singles in 18 at-bats (.500) and stole three bases.<\/p>\n<p>Axemen centre-fielder and lead-off batter Pender of Barrie led the team in three categories \u2014 home runs (3, which led all ISC II players), runs batted in (6) and runs scored (8, tops among ISC II players) \u2014 while hitting .409.<\/p>\n<p>Designated player Jamie Thompson of Napanee had six hits, including a home run and a triple, in 17 at-bats for a .353 average. His versatility came in very handy as he also toed the rubber for two innings in the final.<\/p>\n<p>Hardy, of Alberston, P.E.I., went 3-2 as he saw action on the rubber in all six of Kingston&#8217;s ISC II games. Including in his busy slate was a six-inning no-hitter in a 9-0 win over Wisconsin-based Bar on the Avenue Buzz. In 29 innings overall, he struck out 36 and posted a 2.65 earned-run average. Hardy also picked up Kingston&#8217;s only win in the ISC portion of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=28835\" target=\"_blank\">tournament, 3-2 over the Lloydminster, Alta., Dodgers.Click herefor Fastpitchwest&#8217;s complete report on the <strong>2015 ISC World Tournament ISC II Bracket Individual and Team Awards.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Sportsgate Kingston Five members of the Kingston Axemen were named to the ISC II All-Tournament Team at the 2015 International Softball Congress World Tournament. The team&#8217;s top four batters average-wise during ISC II play following the team&#8217;s elimination from the main tournament \u2014 Jamie Purdon, Jarrett Williams, Brad Pender and Jamie Thompson \u2014 plus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28852,"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":[5,28,11,19,21,23],"tags":[371,354,378],"class_list":{"0":"post-28851","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"category-featured","9":"category-isc-ii","10":"category-players","11":"category-teams","12":"category-tournaments","13":"tag-iscii2015","14":"tag-iscwt2015","15":"tag-kingstonaxemen","16":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28851","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=28851"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28857,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28851\/revisions\/28857"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}