{"id":2154,"date":"2007-09-14T06:18:17","date_gmt":"2007-09-14T14:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=2154"},"modified":"2007-09-15T23:29:38","modified_gmt":"2007-09-16T07:29:38","slug":"2154","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=2154","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach Deadwood Heads to Carson City, NV for NAFA 50+"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/images2\/deadwood.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Long Beach Deadwood will open up the NAFA 50+ Masters at Carson City with a 9:45am game Saturday morning against Hellman Motors of Colorado.    Their second game is 1:15pm PST, with the two Saturday games determining their seeding for Sunday&#8217;s single elimination bracket.<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nThe Deadwood Roster:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n   1. Dean     Bettencourt<br \/>\n   2. Paul Castillo<br \/>\n   3. Joe    Crawford<br \/>\n   4. Jim    Flanagan<br \/>\n   5. Bernie    Lopez<br \/>\n   6. Mike     Encinas<br \/>\n   7. Steve    Miner<br \/>\n   8. Dan     Regas<br \/>\n   9. Alan    Rohrback<br \/>\n  10. Joe     Salcido<br \/>\n  11. Barry    Woolery<br \/>\n  12. Dan    Zupp<br \/>\n  13. Dale Zeller<br \/>\n  14. Len McIver  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Alan Rohrback is a three-time winner of First Team All World honors at the ISC World Tournament, earning the awards in 1981, as a member of the champion Camarillo Kings, hitting .375 in, again in 1983 as a member of the champion Lancaster Chameleons, hitting .409, and finally, in 1986 as a member of the runner-up Lakewood Chameleons.  Rohrbach also earned several All American honors at the ASA Major tournament.  Rohrback was one of the game&#8217;s premier hitters during the 1980&#8217;s.   In his first year of 50+ play, he picked up where he left off, winning the batting title at the ASA 50+ at Prescott, Arizona.<\/p>\n<p>Regas and Miner both played in the Western Softball Congress for a number of years, during the Long Beach Nitehawks era.  Miner was a member of the 1979 Nitehawk team that finished 2nd in the ISC World that year, at Bakersfield.<\/p>\n<p>Steve Miner, Danny Regas, Dean Bettencourt and the editor were members of the 1991 Vista Bombers, runners-up in the 67 team ASA &#8220;A&#8221; Nationals that year, a tournament won by the Boulder Springers.  Rumor has it that some members of that 1991 Boulder team are on the Hellman Motors team, Deadwood&#8217;s first round opponent in this year&#8217;s tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Miner will reprise his role as player-manager of this year&#8217;s squad, as he was in 2005, and on the 1991 Vista Bombers.   This weekend marks the first time Regas and Flanagan have shared a dugout since that 1991 final.    Miner has a long history in the game, and was <a href=\"http:\/\/goaztecs.cstv.com\/sports\/w-softbl\/spec-rel\/090607aaa.html\">recently signed as an assistant coach of the San Diego Aztecs women&#8217;s fastpitch team<\/a>, sharing space, so-to-speak with the great Tony Gwynn, who heads up the men&#8217;s baseball team.  Miner had a remarkable .710 winning percentage in 20 years of head coaching experience in San Diego high schools.  The SDSU website notes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nAt the national level, Miner was a four-time All-American (1979, 1988-90), a seven-time Western Softball Congress all-league selection (1975-81) and the 1975 AAA San Diego Player of the Year. In addition, he set the WSC batting average record in 1979 and batted a national tournament record .793 in 1988.  Miner may be best known in the softball world as the first player to try the crossover slap-hitting at the men&#8217;s national fast-pitch level, a technique that is widely used in the women&#8217;s game today.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bettencourt set a record at that 1991 ASA &#8220;A&#8221; National, with 20 hits from the leadoff spot.  Bettencourt, Woolery and the editor were teammates on the Vista Rangers at the 1989 ISC World Tournament in Kimberly, WI.<\/p>\n<p>Time flies, eh?<\/p>\n<p>Update Friday night:  Rohrback tore a calf muscle yesterday at his son&#8217;s soccer practice and will not be able to play Deadwood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long Beach Deadwood will open up the NAFA 50+ Masters at Carson City with a 9:45am game Saturday morning against Hellman Motors of Colorado. Their second game is 1:15pm PST, with the two Saturday games determining their seeding for Sunday&#8217;s single elimination bracket. The Deadwood Roster: 1. Dean Bettencourt 2. Paul Castillo 3. 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