{"id":2069,"date":"2007-08-21T09:47:56","date_gmt":"2007-08-21T17:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=2069"},"modified":"2007-08-27T09:48:10","modified_gmt":"2007-08-27T17:48:10","slug":"rude-pac-wins-nafa-class-a-major-world-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=2069","title":{"rendered":"Rude-Pac Wins NAFA Class A-Major World Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Des Moines, Iowa] &#8211;  The 2007 NAFA A-Major World Champion was crowned at the Des<br \/>\nMoines Softball Park in Des Moines, Iowa Sunday afternoon as Rude-Pac (Sun Valley, Cal) defeated Odin Fastpitch (Odin, Minn) 3-2.<\/p>\n<p> Rude-Pac went undefeated on the weekend, posting a 6-0 record.<\/p>\n<p> Odin was dropped to the Loser&#8217;s Bracket by Rude-Pac Saturday and won three games Sunday to set-up a rematch with Rude-Pac.<\/p>\n<p> Odin moved into the Championship Game with a 1-0 victory of the Blues Sofball Club (Hastings, Mich).  Odin&#8217;s Dusty Pfeiffer hit an RBI double in the top of seventh for the games lone run.<\/p>\n<p> The Blues threatened in the bottom of the seventh, getting their leadoff runner on before popping up a bunt.  The next batter singled but Odin ended the game with a strikeout.<\/p>\n<p> Rude-Pac&#8217;s Greg Baker was named the tournament Most Valuable Player with Odin&#8217;s Justin Davis walking away with Most Valuable Pitcher honors.<\/p>\n<p> Rude-Pac becomes the first California team since 2004 when the Yucaipa Bombers (Yucaipa, Cal) won the Class AAA title in Hutchinson, Kansas.<\/p>\n<p> A complete listing of the All World Teams will be on the NAFA<br \/>\nWorld Series website at http:\/\/www.2007ws.nafafastpitch.com by<br \/>\nMonday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Brett Bresnahan<br \/>\nbreshz(at)minnesotafastpitch.com<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.2007ws.nafafastpitch.com<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.nafafastpitch.com<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.minnesotafastpitch.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Des Moines, Iowa] &#8211; The 2007 NAFA A-Major World Champion was crowned at the Des Moines Softball Park in Des Moines, Iowa Sunday afternoon as Rude-Pac (Sun Valley, Cal) defeated Odin Fastpitch (Odin, Minn) 3-2. Rude-Pac went undefeated on the weekend, posting a 6-0 record. Odin was dropped to the Loser&#8217;s Bracket by Rude-Pac Saturday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2069"}],"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=2069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}