{"id":1679,"date":"2007-06-04T07:38:17","date_gmt":"2007-06-04T15:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=1679"},"modified":"2007-06-04T07:38:17","modified_gmt":"2007-06-04T15:38:17","slug":"circle-tap-in-green-bay-gazette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=1679","title":{"rendered":"Circle Tap in Green Bay Gazette"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbaypressgazette.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20070603\/GPG02\/706030723\/1226\/GPGsports\"><strong>From the Green Bay Press-Gazette<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Fastpitch softball: Circle Tap eliminated from Kimberly tourney<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Press-Gazette<\/p>\n<p>KIMBERLY \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Circle Tap of Denmark went 1-2 on Saturday and was eliminated from the Jack Grafmeier men&#8217;s fastpitch softball tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Townline of Green Bay, meanwhile, went 1-1, including beating perennial powerhouse The Farm of Madison 6-5. Josh Johnson homered for Townline, which outhit The Farm 12-5. James Darby was the winning pitcher.<\/p>\n<p>Townline earlier lost 9-4 to MinnDak Millers of Fargo (N.D.). Green Bay also played Thomson Area Merchants of Thomson, Ill. The result of that game was unavailable.<\/p>\n<p>Circle Tap (10-4 overall), which won its game Friday, began Saturday by beating Plangger&#8217;s Furniture of Benton Harbor, Mich., 6-0. Collin McKenzie threw a five-hitter with 18 strikeouts, and Steve Schucker and Tim Jorgensen homered.<\/p>\n<p>But McKenzie took the loss in relief \u00e2\u20ac\u201d despite striking out eight \u00e2\u20ac\u201d in Circle Tap&#8217;s 3-2 loss to Dolan and Murphy of Aurora, Ill., in eight innings. Schucker had a single and double.<\/p>\n<p>McKenzie gave up just four hits and fanned 12 but took the loss in a 2-1, eight-inning setback to the Bloomington (Ill.) Stix.<\/p>\n<p>The Bar of Green Bay lost to Plangger&#8217;s Furniture 6-3 and was eliminated after losing 3-0 to Dolan &#038; Murphy of Aurora, Ill., earlier in the day<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Green Bay Press-Gazette Fastpitch softball: Circle Tap eliminated from Kimberly tourney Press-Gazette KIMBERLY \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Circle Tap of Denmark went 1-2 on Saturday and was eliminated from the Jack Grafmeier men&#8217;s fastpitch softball tournament. Townline of Green Bay, meanwhile, went 1-1, including beating perennial powerhouse The Farm of Madison 6-5. Josh Johnson homered for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679"}],"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=1679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}