{"id":246,"date":"2005-06-14T08:46:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-14T16:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=246"},"modified":"2005-06-14T08:46:00","modified_gmt":"2005-06-14T16:46:00","slug":"japan%e2%80%99s-coach-says-team-looking-forward-to-isf-jr-men%e2%80%99s-ch%e2%80%99ship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=246","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s coach says team looking forward to ISF Jr Men\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ch\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Just do the best they can\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>By Pat Healey<br \/>\nMarketing and Media Consultant<br \/>\nISF 2005 JR. MEN\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S WORLD SOFTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP<\/em><\/p>\n<p>SUMMERSIDE \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Team Japan is looking forward to the ISF 2005 Junior Men\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s World Softball Championship June 24 to July 3 in Summerside.  Head Coach Yoshihiro Umeshita said his team\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s management and athletes are excited to be heading overseas to Summerside. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re very pleased and honored that the Japan Junior Men&#8217;s Team is participating in the Junior Men&#8217;s World Championship in PEI,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Umeshita.<\/p>\n<p>Japan will arrive on P.E.I. June 21 and have scheduled some pre-championship training practices June 21, 22 and 23 through the City of Summerside scheduling coordinator, Paul Gallant. Umeshita said he is hoping his roster of 16 players will play to the best of their abilities and that results will follow. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We are sure our players will do their best to compete with the great players from the participating countries,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he added. Japan plays Denmark on the championship\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s opening day June 24 at 12 p.m. before playing their only night game at Monday June 27 against Venezuela at 8 p.m. He believes each game at the World Softball Championship will be a learning experience and give his team exposure to a higher-caliber of ball then they have seen back home in Japan. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153All the games will be a fair fight with an exchange of friendship during the World Championship.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Just do the best they can\u00e2\u20ac\u009d By Pat Healey Marketing and Media Consultant ISF 2005 JR. MEN\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S WORLD SOFTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP SUMMERSIDE \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Team Japan is looking forward to the ISF 2005 Junior Men\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s World Softball Championship June 24 to July 3 in Summerside. Head Coach Yoshihiro Umeshita said his team\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s management and athletes are excited [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,11,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246"}],"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=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}