{"id":2504,"date":"2008-06-01T21:45:52","date_gmt":"2008-06-02T05:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=2504"},"modified":"2008-06-15T14:43:28","modified_gmt":"2008-06-15T21:43:28","slug":"isc-ii-news-at-the-deuce-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=2504","title":{"rendered":"ISC II News at &#8220;The Deuce&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/thedeuce\/\"><strong>Click here for our ISC II Blog, &#8220;The Deuce&#8221;<\/strong><\/a>, where you&#8217;ll find plenty of updates on ISC II action, as things heat up in June and July, in the run-up to the 2008 ISC II Tournament of Champions, set for August 13-18, 2008 in Appelton, Wisconsin.    The latest team rankings are due out any day.   Current  # 1 TNT fell to the # 6 NY Knights, so it will be interesting to see how that might impact their ranking.<\/p>\n<p>The California Lumberkings, River City Rockers, Innovative Communications and Rude Pac are among the teams vying for a spot in the prestigious tournament.  The California Lumberkings competed in the 2006 and 2007 T of C, finishing second, to the TNT squad out of Pennsylvania.  The Lumberkings were the first ever California team to compete, and their 2008 roster will be bolstered by a number of the members of last year&#8217;s A-1 Taylor Farms team, which finished third, including All-World pitcher Dave Drotzmann.<\/p>\n<p>River City, Innovative and Rude Pac will all be in Santa Barbara this coming weekend for the 2008 <a href=\"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=2495\"><strong>Best of the West tournament.<\/strong><\/a>  The Best of the West Round Robin schedule on Saturday features a match-up between the River City Rockers and Innovative:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nGame #14 River City Rockers Vs Innovative Communications<br \/>\n5:45 PM Pershing Park &#8211; Field #1<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Lumberkings will be in Niagara, Ontario, competing in one of the top ISC II tournaments on the continent, the <a href=\"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=2505\"><strong>&#8220;Snapper Shootout&#8221;<\/strong><\/a>, hosted by one of last year&#8217;s semi-finalists in the ISC II Tournament of Champions.   <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iscfastpitch.com\/index.php?page=isc-ii_tournament\"><br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/images2\/appleton.08.logo.200.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click here for our ISC II Blog, &#8220;The Deuce&#8221;, where you&#8217;ll find plenty of updates on ISC II action, as things heat up in June and July, in the run-up to the 2008 ISC II Tournament of Champions, set for August 13-18, 2008 in Appelton, Wisconsin. The latest team rankings are due out any day. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2504"}],"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=2504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}