{"id":2459,"date":"2008-05-09T17:32:43","date_gmt":"2008-05-10T01:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=2459"},"modified":"2008-05-10T00:18:10","modified_gmt":"2008-05-10T08:18:10","slug":"preparations-underway-for-isf-jr-worlds-june-20-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=2459","title":{"rendered":"Preparations Underway for ISF Jr. Worlds at Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada &#8211; June 20-29"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldsoftball2008.com\/\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.worldsoftball2008.com\/skin\/jrfastpitchlogo.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><em><br \/>\n(click logo for official tournament website)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Preparations are underway for the ISF Jr. World Tournament, which is little more than a month away.  Twelve countries will be sending teams to Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada to battle for the gold, silver and bronze, in this once-every-four year competition.  (This year&#8217;s tournament actually comes only three years after the 2005 ISF Jr. Worlds, due to a re-setting of the schedule this year only).    <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldsoftball2008.com\/documents\/jr_men_worlds_schedule.pdf\"><strong>Click here for a PDF of the complete schedule of games.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldsoftball2008.com\/\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.worldsoftball2008.com\/images\/homepage.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>(click photo for official tournament website)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>From the official tourrnament website:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe ISF Junior Men&#8217;s Fast Pitch Championships will be held in Whitehorse, Yukon Canada from June 20 &#8211; 29, 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Whitehorse has considerable experience hosting major softball events and has a vibrant softball community. Whitehorse has also hosted a number of major sporting events in the past, including the 2007 Canada Winter Games.<\/p>\n<p>The ISF Junior Men&#8217;s Fast Pitch Championships is hosted by Softball Yukon.<\/p>\n<p>12 Nations Vying for Softball Championship<\/p>\n<p>    * Canada<br \/>\n    * United States<br \/>\n    * Mexico<br \/>\n    * Australia<br \/>\n    * New Zealand<br \/>\n    * Japan<br \/>\n    * Argentina<br \/>\n    * Venezuela<br \/>\n    * Denmark<br \/>\n    * Czech Republic<br \/>\n    * Botswana<br \/>\n    * South Africa <\/p>\n<p><strong>About Whitehorse:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitwhitehorse.com\"><strong>www.visitwhitehorse.com<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelyukon.com\"><strong>www.travelyukon.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(click logo for official tournament website) Preparations are underway for the ISF Jr. World Tournament, which is little more than a month away. Twelve countries will be sending teams to Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada to battle for the gold, silver and bronze, in this once-every-four year competition. (This year&#8217;s tournament actually comes only three years after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,1,17,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2459"}],"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=2459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}