{"id":1670,"date":"2007-06-03T10:37:15","date_gmt":"2007-06-03T18:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=1670"},"modified":"2007-06-03T10:43:08","modified_gmt":"2007-06-03T18:43:08","slug":"santa-rosa-clinches-national-berth-at-tulare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=1670","title":{"rendered":"Santa Rosa Clinches National Berth at Tulare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tom Dower Goes Off in Championship Game, Leads Team to National Berth<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>TULARE, CA &#8212; Santa Rosa Fastpitch defeated The Silverhawks 18-12 in the &#8220;if needed&#8221; game to win the 1st Annual Men\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Fastpitch Western Memorial Weekend Challenge held here at Prosperity Park May 26-27. Santa Rosa not only took home the $1,000 first-place money but qualified for the Amateur Softball Association&#8217;s Class C National Tournament in Killeen, TX.<\/p>\n<p>Jeff Nystrom hung on to pitch Santa Rosa to victory in the championship game, thanks to a powerful hitting attack led by Most Valuable Player Mark Young and catcher Tom Dower. In the title game, Dower had a home run, two triples and a double, while both he and Young hit over .600 over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p><em>Thanks to Herb Dower for the latest edition of &#8220;The Dower Report&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s note:  If a single, double, triple and homer is &#8220;hitting for the cycle&#8221;, what do you call Tom Dower&#8217;s performance in the championship game  &#8212; a &#8220;motor-cycle&#8221;?   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Dower Goes Off in Championship Game, Leads Team to National Berth TULARE, CA &#8212; Santa Rosa Fastpitch defeated The Silverhawks 18-12 in the &#8220;if needed&#8221; game to win the 1st Annual Men\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Fastpitch Western Memorial Weekend Challenge held here at Prosperity Park May 26-27. Santa Rosa not only took home the $1,000 first-place money [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670"}],"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=1670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}