{"id":1658,"date":"2007-06-01T07:22:17","date_gmt":"2007-06-01T15:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=1658"},"modified":"2007-06-01T08:27:29","modified_gmt":"2007-06-01T16:27:29","slug":"1-vs-2-tonight-at-snapper-shootout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=1658","title":{"rendered":"ISC II #1 vs. #2 Tonight at Snapper Shootout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>New # 1 Niagara  Take On Defending Champs and # 2 Tavistock<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[VIRGIL, ONTARIO] &#8211; When Niagara Snappers face off against Tavistock Merchants at the Snapper Shootout tournament tonight at 9:15 pm in Virgil, Ontario, it will be a battle of the top two ranked ISC II teams.<\/p>\n<p>While the defending champions from Tavistock were rated #1 in the preseason rankings a month ago, news that they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve lost three key players was enough to drop them to #2 in the latest rankings.<\/p>\n<p>The top ranked Niagara Snappers failed to qualify for the ISC II Tournament of Champions, though a number of their players played key roles as pick-ups for other teams.  Determined to get back to the show, the Snappers went out in the off-season and signed the top pitcher in the ISC II division, Cory Costello, who broke the ISC II strikeout record for a T of C, leading his hometown Micksburg Twins to a 3rd place finish. <\/p>\n<p>The ink is barely dry on the latest set of rankings released today by the ISC II ranking committe, so we&#8217;ll see how many of them got it right.   Are the Niagara Snappers the top dog to be reckoned with, or has the memory of Tavistock&#8217;s 2006 ISC T of C championship faded from the collective memory of the voters too quickly.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll keep an eye out for that score and post it here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New # 1 Niagara Take On Defending Champs and # 2 Tavistock [VIRGIL, ONTARIO] &#8211; When Niagara Snappers face off against Tavistock Merchants at the Snapper Shootout tournament tonight at 9:15 pm in Virgil, Ontario, it will be a battle of the top two ranked ISC II teams. While the defending champions from Tavistock were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658"}],"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=1658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}