{"id":1337,"date":"2006-10-08T05:38:43","date_gmt":"2006-10-08T13:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=1337"},"modified":"2006-10-08T05:52:32","modified_gmt":"2006-10-08T13:52:32","slug":"usa-loses-to-canada-finishes-4th-at-pan-ams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=1337","title":{"rendered":"USA loses to Canada, finishes 4th at Pan Ams"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n(Click logo for official website)<\/em>
\nFrom Als Fastball:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Canada advances<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

HERMOSILLO, MEXICO – Team Canada is two steps from capturing Pan American gold after eliminating the defending champions, United States 4-1 here at the 2006 Pan American Softball championships Saturday night.<\/p>\n

The Canucks can finish no worse then a bronze medal placing with the win.<\/p>\n

Canada used a long bomb off the hot sticks of Ian Fehrman of Townsend, ONT., and Ryan Wolfe of Melbourne, ONT., as
\neach connected for two run blasts in the win.<\/p>\n

Frank Cox of Ontario earned the pitching decision.<\/p>\n

Team Canada will play the loser of the first place-second place game between Argentina and Venezuela at 4 pm Pacific Sunday for the right to play that game’s winner in the final at 7 pm.<\/p>\n

Pat Healey
\npathealey@eastlink.ca\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In their final round robin game, the USA team record fell to 6-3 with an 8-4 loss against Puerto Rico at the 2006 Men\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Pan American Softball Championships. <\/p>\n

The United States struck first putting up two runs in the bottom of the first. Frank DeGroat (Ringwood, N.J.) took the long ball for a two-run homerun, his third of the Championships, scoring Omar Morago (Tucson, Ariz.) who reached on a fielder\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s choice.<\/p>\n

It was scoreless through the second until Puerto Rico responded with a five-run third inning off three doubles. It started off with a double by Guarronex Rodriquez. Santos Santiago followed three batters later with his own double for two RBI scoring both Jose Santiago who was hit by a pitch and Rodriquez. A double by Victor Ayala, which scored two runs, wrapped up Puerto Rico\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s scoring drive, giving them a 5-2 lead.<\/p>\n

Puerto Rico struggled from the circle with Morago scoring after landing on base with a walk and then scoring when Luis Joglar (Fairview, N.J.) drew a walk. The team drew four walks during the third cutting the lead to 5-3.<\/p>\n

With two on in the fourth, Santiago homered to give Puerto an 8-3 lead. Their lead would not be challenged until the bottom of the fifth. For the second time of the game, Joglar drew a walk for an RBI scoring Degroat who landed on base on balls. A double play by Puerto Rico closed out the inning and scoreless innings through five and six gave Puerto Rico an 8-4 win.<\/p>\n

Michael White (Sioux City, Iowa) walked away with the loss for the United States after throwing 2 1\/3 innings with one strikeout and three hits. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Click logo for official website) From Als Fastball: Canada advances HERMOSILLO, MEXICO – Team Canada is two steps from capturing Pan American gold after eliminating the defending champions, United States 4-1 here at the 2006 Pan American Softball championships Saturday night. The Canucks can finish no worse then a bronze medal placing with the win. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,16,1,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337"}],"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=1337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}