{"id":1857,"date":"2007-07-12T13:39:41","date_gmt":"2007-07-12T21:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=1857"},"modified":"2007-07-12T15:11:50","modified_gmt":"2007-07-12T23:11:50","slug":"venezuela-drops-out-of-kfc-american-challenge-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=1857","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela Drops Out of KFC American Challenge Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alsfastball.com\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/images2\/als.fastball.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>KFC American Challenge Series schedule changed<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Oklahoma City] -The scheduleand format for the 2007 KFC American Challenge has been changed after Venezuela advised tournament officials that itwould not be making the trip to Oklahoma City due to travel details that could not be resolved in time. The new format will be a double round-robin between the USA, Japan and ArgentinaThe #1 seed after round-robin competition will receive a bye in the playoffswhile the #2 and #3 seeds play for a spot in the championship game.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets to the KFC World Cup of Softball will get fans in to see allthe competition during the American Challenge Series at no additional cost.<\/p>\n<p>The following is the updated schedule for the KFC American ChallengeSeries.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fri., July 13<\/strong><br \/>\n1:00 p.m.<br \/>\nJapan vs. Argentina<br \/>\n7:00 p.m.<br \/>\nUSA vs. Japan<br \/>\n9:30 p.m.<br \/>\nUSA vs. Argentina<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sat., July 14<\/strong><br \/>\n12:00 p.m.<br \/>\nArgentina vs. Japan<br \/>\n3:00 p.m.<br \/>\nUSA vs. Japan<br \/>\n9:00 p.m.<br \/>\nUSA vs. Argentina<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sun., July 15\t<\/strong><br \/>\n11:30 p.m.<br \/>\n#3 Seed vs. #4 Seed<br \/>\n2:30 p.m.<br \/>\n#1 Seed vs. winner of #3 vs. #4 <\/p>\n<p>For complete results, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Live\u00e2\u20ac\u009d stats, photo galleries andmuch more log on to <a href=\"www.usasoftball.com\">www.usasoftball.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Brian McCall<br \/>\nbmccall@softball.org<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From KFC American Challenge Series schedule changed [Oklahoma City] -The scheduleand format for the 2007 KFC American Challenge has been changed after Venezuela advised tournament officials that itwould not be making the trip to Oklahoma City due to travel details that could not be resolved in time. The new format will be a double round-robin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,17,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1857"}],"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=1857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}