{"id":1280,"date":"2006-09-11T23:37:20","date_gmt":"2006-09-12T07:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=1280"},"modified":"2006-09-11T23:38:06","modified_gmt":"2006-09-12T07:38:06","slug":"usa-softball-selects-2006-men%e2%80%99span-american-qualifier-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=1280","title":{"rendered":"USA Softball selects 2006 Men\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Pan American Qualifier Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>From USA Softball via Al&#8217;s Fastball:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Oklahoma City&#8212;USA Softballannounced today the selection of 17 athletes to represent the United States at the VII Pan AmericanMen\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Softball Qualifier, September 29-October 10, in Hermosillo, Mexico.  This event will be used to qualify teams from the Pan American region<br \/>\nfor the2009 ISF Men\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s World Championship in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Players selected included eight members of the USA team that captured the 2006 AAU Men\u00e2\u20ac\u2122sFast Pitch Tournament in Orlando Fla., in February. It was thefirst event won by the Men\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s National Team since it captured the goldmedal at the 2002 Pan Am Qualifier<br \/>\nin Guatemala. <\/p>\n<p>Members from the AAU championship squad are Chad Boom (Barnesville,Minn.),  Frank DeGroat (Ringwood, Mich.), Chris Miljavic (St. Joseph, Mo.),Blake Miller (Albany, Ga.), Sonny Perkins (St. Michaels, Ariz.), Travis Price(Santa Ana, Calif.), Landy Rodriguez (West<br \/>\nHaverstraw, N.Y.) and Michael White(Sioux City, Iowa).<\/p>\n<p>Other players selected to the roster include Paul Algar (Lexington,Ill.), Gregg Cascaes (Apple Valley, Minn.), Chad Ferguson (Battle Creek,Mich.), Lucas Goring (St. Paul, Minn.), Luis Joglar (Fairview, N.J.), KyleMagnusson (Salt Lake City, Utah), Omar Moraga (Tucson, Ariz.), James Pecoraro(Swansea, Ill.) and Tony Peeples (San Miguel, Calif.). <\/p>\n<p>The USA Softball Men\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Pan Am Qualifier team will be led by headcoach Peter Turner (Stockton Calif.). Turner will be assistedby Thad Brown (Modesto, Calif.and Mitch Munthe (Modesto, Calif.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From USA Softball via Al&#8217;s Fastball: Oklahoma City&#8212;USA Softballannounced today the selection of 17 athletes to represent the United States at the VII Pan AmericanMen\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Softball Qualifier, September 29-October 10, in Hermosillo, Mexico. This event will be used to qualify teams from the Pan American region for the2009 ISF Men\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s World Championship in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,15,6,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280"}],"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=1280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}