{"id":2051,"date":"2007-08-22T04:40:50","date_gmt":"2007-08-22T12:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=2051"},"modified":"2007-08-22T04:41:54","modified_gmt":"2007-08-22T12:41:54","slug":"2007-nafa-world-series-week-1-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=2051","title":{"rendered":"2007 NAFA World Series – Week 1 Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/strong>First Weekend of Play at the 2007 NAFA World Series<\/strong><\/p>\n

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[West Des Moines and Des Moines, Iowa] – <\/p>\n

The first weekend of play at the 2007 NAFA World Series concluded Monday afternoon as the third of three Champions was crowned, with the Scarlett’s Sox(Sioux Falls, SD) defeating Priority Mortgage (Grand Rapids, Mich). On Sunday New Image (Monfort, Wisc) defeated the Black Knights (Fargo,ND) to win the inaugural Class AA-Major title while earlier in the day Rude-Pac(Sun Valley, Cal) outlasted Odin Fastpitch (Odin, Minn) in the Class A-Major.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Following are summaries of the finals of each class of play.<\/p>\n

The 2007 NAFAA-Major World Champion was crowned at the Des
\nMoines Softball Park in DesMoines, Iowa Sunday afternoon as Rude-Pac
\n(Sun Valley, Cal) defeated OdinFastpitch (Odin, Minn) 3-2.<\/p>\n

Rude-Pac went undefeated on the weekend, posting a6-0 record.<\/p>\n

Odin was dropped to the Loser’s Bracket by Rude-PacSaturday
\nand won three games Sunday to set-up a rematch with Rude-Pac.<\/p>\n

Odin moved into the Championship Game with a 1-0victory of
\nthe Blues Sofball Club (Hastings, Mich). Odin’s Dusty Pfeifferhit
\nan RBI double in the top of seventh for the games lone run.<\/p>\n

The Blues threatened in the bottom of the seventh,getting their
\nleadoff runner on before popping up a bunt. The next battersingled
\nbut Odin ended the game with a strikeout.<\/p>\n

Rude-Pac’s Greg Baker was named the tournament MostValuable
\nPlayer with Odin’s Justin Davis walking away with Most ValuablePitcher
\nhonors.<\/p>\n

Rude-Pac becomes the first California team since 2004when the
\nYucaipa Bombers (Yucaipa, Cal) won the Class AAA title in Hutchinson,Kansas.<\/p>\n

New Image (Monfort,Wisc) defeated the Black Knights (Fargo,
\nND) 8-5 Sunday evening at Racoon RiverPark in West Des Moines
\nto win the inaugural NAFA Class AA-Major crown.<\/p>\n

With the win, New Image becomes the first team inNAFA history
\nto win World Titles in back-to-back years after claiming the
\nAAWorld Title last year in Appleton, Wisconsin.<\/p>\n

New Image bumpedthe Black Knights into the Loser’s Bracket
\nSaturday afternoon, forcing Kegel toplay five games just to get
\ninto the Championship Game.<\/p>\n

A win by the Black Knights would have made them thefirst three-time
\nNAFA World Champions after winning the 2000 Class A Title(Fargo,
\nND) and the 2003 Open Title (Eau Claire, Wisc).<\/p>\n

In the Championship Game, New Image jumped out to a3-0 lead
\nin the first inning on RBIs by Jim Peccararo and Kris Agnew.<\/p>\n

The Black Knights countered with a run in the bottomof the
\nfirst then tied the game in the second by scoring on a passed
\nball and aNathan Wiens RBI single.<\/p>\n

The Black Knights grabbed the lead by scoring anunearned run.<\/p>\n

New Image tied the game again the next inning on aTodd Burlage
\nRBI double.<\/p>\n

In the sixth, New Image scored three runs on asacrifice fly
\nby Brent Holman and singled by Harvey Knutson and Jim Peccararo.<\/p>\n

The Black Knights cut into the lead in the bottomhalf with
\na run, which New Image countered in the top of the seventh.<\/p>\n

The Black Knights’ Nathan Weins was named the MostValuable
\nPlayer while Jeramie Holman of New Image was awarded the Most
\nValuablePitcher award.<\/p>\n

The Scarlett’s Sox(Sioux Falls, SD) defeated Priority Mortgage
\n(Grand Rapids, Mich) 2-1 in the”If Necessary” Championship Game
\nat Racoon River Park in West DesMoines, Iowa to claim the 2007
\nNAFA Class AA World Championship.<\/p>\n

Priority forced the “If Necessary” game bywith a 4-3 win.
\nTrailing 3-1 in the top of the sixth inning, Mike Gruppenhit
\na three-run homer to give Priority Mortgage the win and force
\nthe finalgame.<\/p>\n

In the final game, the Scarlett’s, the 2005 ClassA-Major Champion,
\njumped out to an early lead on Tim DeJong’s RBI single.<\/p>\n

Travis DeJong led off the Sox second inning with atriple then
\nscored on Chris Becker’s single for a 2-0 lead.<\/p>\n

Priority cut the lead in half in the sixth on anotherRBI single
\nby Mike Gruppen.<\/p>\n

Sox catcher Tim DeJong was named the Most ValuablePlayer with
\nteam mate Kyle Eberts taking home Most Valuable Pitcher honors.<\/p>\n

Play for the secondweekend becomes Thursday afternoon with
\ncompetition in Class A, followed byplay beginning in Class AAA
\nthat evening, with the 23-and-Under divisionbeginning Friday
\nevening.<\/p>\n

The Class AAAchampion will be crowned Saturday with Sunday
\nbringing the finals of Class Aand 23-and-Under.<\/p>\n

The Racoon Riverand Des Moines Softball Park will be both in
\nuse this weekend once again.<\/p>\n

The 2007 NAFAWorld Series website at http:\/\/www.2007ws.nafafastpitch.comwill
\nserve as the information point for everything concerning the
\nevent.<\/p>\n

Due to sometechnical difficulties, we are still in the process
\nof working out box scoresand other stats to post on the website.<\/p>\n

Brett Bresnahan<\/p>\n

breshz(at)minnesotafastpitch.com
\nhttp:\/\/www.2007ws.nafafastpitch.com
\nhttp:\/\/www.nafafastpitch.com
\nhttp:\/\/www.minnesotafastpitch.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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