{"id":1215,"date":"2006-08-31T17:37:25","date_gmt":"2006-09-01T01:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=1215"},"modified":"2006-09-02T09:10:25","modified_gmt":"2006-09-02T17:10:25","slug":"sr-canadians-charlottetowne-pei-falters-late-falls-to-st-thomas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=1215","title":{"rendered":"Sr. Canadians &#8211; Charlottetowne PEI Falters Late, Falls to St. Thomas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canadians2006.net\/\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/images2\/BlackBearsNational_Logo_100.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><em>(Click logo for official website)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>From our friend in PEI, Pat Healey:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Fawcetts falter late, lose to defending champs at Sr. Canadians<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. &#8211; Through five innings, it appeared the Charlottetown Razzy&#8217;s Facwetts and St. Thomas Centennials were going to need extra innings here Thursday night at the 2006 Canadian Sr. Men&#8217;s softball championship. However, the defending champion Centennials had other things in mind scoring five times in the next two innings en route to a perfect 7-0 record with a 8-3 win. The loss dropped Charlottetown&#8217;s record to 2-5, and they will face the Vancouver Grey Sox, who many expected to be strong at these nationals, in their first playoff game  Saturday at 11:30 a.m. (3:30 p.m. Atlantic)   <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The two sides each scored three runs in the first inning, and then the bats were silent again until the Centennials, from Ontario, scored two on a two run blast by Brian Harvey (2-for-3) and then had three more scored in the top of the seventh inning. Chris Payne (2-for-3, RBI) drove hme Tim Maccumber in the seventh to add to the run total. P.E.I. couldn&#8217;t muster any counter atatck in their half of the inning. Top batters included Chris Craig (2-for-4, home run) with the tournament&#8217;s 79th home run, a three run dinger in the bottom of the first, Jeff Ellsworth (1-for-2, two walks, double) Duane Clarkson (1-for-4, run scored) and Mark Arsenault (0-2, reached on a fielder&#8217;s choice, stolen base). Chris Craig suffered the pitching loss, going the distance for the Fawcetts.<br \/>\n(Pat Healey)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Click logo for official website) From our friend in PEI, Pat Healey: Fawcetts falter late, lose to defending champs at Sr. Canadians PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. &#8211; Through five innings, it appeared the Charlottetown Razzy&#8217;s Facwetts and St. Thomas Centennials were going to need extra innings here Thursday night at the 2006 Canadian Sr. Men&#8217;s softball [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}