{"id":1426,"date":"2007-01-08T09:06:10","date_gmt":"2007-01-08T17:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=1426"},"modified":"2007-01-13T20:32:37","modified_gmt":"2007-01-14T04:32:37","slug":"2007-aau-roster-st-thomas-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=1426","title":{"rendered":"2007 AAU Roster &#8211; St. Thomas Storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/images2\/aaulogo.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nThe St. Thomas Storm Fastball Club from Ontario, Canada is returning to Orlando to compete in the AAU International Fastpitch tournament.<\/p>\n<p>This is the second trip to Florida for the Storm and they are looking to improve on last year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s finish, when they lost in the first round of the playoffs and finished with a record of 2 wins and 2 losses.<\/p>\n<p>The team looks at the event as a nice mid winter vacation and a chance to compete against international teams who we don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t normally get to play against.<\/p>\n<p>The Storm plays in the intermediate level St. Thomas and District league and feature many players with ISC experience.<\/p>\n<p>Pitching this year consists of workhorse Trevor Wardell who was instrumental in helping the St. Thomas Evergreen Centennials win back to back Canadian Sr. Men\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Championships. Also featured on the staff is Dan Beecroft, an underrated pitcher who has led the Storm to 2 straight league titles.<\/p>\n<p>Several players on the roster also helped the Centennials and Storm to their titles including lead off man and shortstop Tyler Lessard, 2B Troy Rick and outfielders Chris Payne and Mark Coleman.<\/p>\n<p><strong>AAU Roster<\/strong><br \/>\n(pitchers in bold)<\/p>\n<p>P- Wardell, Beecroft<br \/>\nC- Jeff Franklin<br \/>\nP\/DP- Peter Mersereau<br \/>\n1B- Tom Edie<br \/>\n2B- Troy Rick<br \/>\nSS- Tex Lessard<br \/>\n3B- Aaron Gould<br \/>\nLF- Mark Coleman<br \/>\nCF- Scott Bate<br \/>\nRF- Chris Payne<br \/>\nPlayer\/coach Tom Edie and manager Bill Horne will handle the coaching duties.<\/p>\n<p><em>Thanks to Aaron Gould for this info.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The St. Thomas Storm Fastball Club from Ontario, Canada is returning to Orlando to compete in the AAU International Fastpitch tournament. This is the second trip to Florida for the Storm and they are looking to improve on last year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s finish, when they lost in the first round of the playoffs and finished with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426"}],"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=1426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}