{"id":2062,"date":"2007-08-26T21:00:26","date_gmt":"2007-08-27T05:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=2062"},"modified":"2007-08-26T21:31:53","modified_gmt":"2007-08-27T05:31:53","slug":"usb-pirates-win-nafa-a-world-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=2062","title":{"rendered":"UBS Pirates Win NAFA &#8220;A&#8221; World Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2007ws.nafafastpitch.com\/\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/images2\/NAFA2007_180.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The UBS Pirates took two of three from the Ladner Royals to claim the NAFA &#8220;A&#8221; World Series Sunday in Des Moines, Iowa.  The Pirates defeated Ladner in the winner&#8217;s bracket final, 4-1, only to have Ladner emerge from the loser&#8217;s bracket to beat them 17-6 in the first championship game.   But the rubber match went to the Pirates, 2-1, and with it, the 2007 title.  McCormick was third, having lost an earlier round game to the Pirates as well.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2007ws.nafafastpitch.com\/A\/bracket_results.htm\"><strong>Click here for the complete bracket.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Editor&#8217;s note: The Pirates were the team that handed the So Cal Hustlers their first loss, in their third game of the tournament.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UBS Pirates took two of three from the Ladner Royals to claim the NAFA &#8220;A&#8221; World Series Sunday in Des Moines, Iowa. The Pirates defeated Ladner in the winner&#8217;s bracket final, 4-1, only to have Ladner emerge from the loser&#8217;s bracket to beat them 17-6 in the first championship game. But the rubber match [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2062"}],"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=2062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}