{"id":2177,"date":"2007-09-17T16:45:20","date_gmt":"2007-09-18T00:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=2177"},"modified":"2007-10-16T08:11:53","modified_gmt":"2007-10-16T16:11:53","slug":"lb-deadwood-third-at-nafa-masters-west-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=2177","title":{"rendered":"LB Deadwood Third at NAFA Masters West 50+"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The two Dans, Zupp and Regas Named to All World Series Team<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/images2\/deadwood.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The (editor&#8217;s) Long Beach Deadwood Masters 50+ team suffered its first loss Sunday afternoon at the hands of the eventual champions, Seattle Fasptitch, finishing third at the 2007 NAFA Masters West tournament, with a 2-1 record.   The &#8216;Wood won both of its qualifying round games on Saturday and top seed for Sunday&#8217;s playoff round, but defensive miscues led to its demise on Sunday.  <\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/images2\/Deadwood_2007_450.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<em>(Kneeling, left to right: Bernie Lopez, Paul Castillo, Jim Flanagan, Mike Encinas, Joe Crawford, and Dan Zupp; Standing, left to right, Steve Miner, Len McIver, Barry Woolery, Dan Regas, Dale Zeller, and Dean Bettencourt) Not shown: Joe Salcido<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Pitcher Dan Zupp, and second baseman Dan Regas were named by NAFA to the All World Series teams for the 50+ divison.  Zupp pitched in all three games for the &#8216;Wood, including a 1-0 complete game shutout to open the tournament, while Regas led the team&#8217;s offense, hitting in the third spot in the batting order, with a 4-for-5 performance in game 2, including a triple, double and two singles.  Also turning in good performances for Deadwood were first baseman Dean Bettencourt (5-11),  Bernie Lopez (4-10), including a bases clearing two-out double to break open game two against Nevada Power, and Mike Encinas (4 for 12, including a pair of doubles.)<\/p>\n<p>Following its win over LB Deadwood in the semi-finals, Seattle Fastpitch went on to defeat the Texas Stars, 15-11 for the 50+ championship.    Congratulations to Charlie Bendock and his Seattle crew.<\/p>\n<p>The Texas Stars had a couple of wild ones Sunday, including an 18-16 semi-final win over the Bay Area Angels.   Texas appeared to have the game put away early, with a run-rule in the offing, only to have the Bay Area Angels storm back to tie the game at 14.   In Saturday&#8217;s qualifying round, Texas and Bay Area played to a 10-10 tie.   Bay Area finished in a third place tie with LB Deadwood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The two Dans, Zupp and Regas Named to All World Series Team The (editor&#8217;s) Long Beach Deadwood Masters 50+ team suffered its first loss Sunday afternoon at the hands of the eventual champions, Seattle Fasptitch, finishing third at the 2007 NAFA Masters West tournament, with a 2-1 record. The &#8216;Wood won both of its qualifying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2177"}],"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=2177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}