{"id":2535,"date":"2008-06-08T21:16:22","date_gmt":"2008-06-09T04:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=2535"},"modified":"2008-06-12T19:42:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-13T02:42:00","slug":"raineyiac-is-best-of-the-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=2535","title":{"rendered":"Rainey\/IAC is Best of the West"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n(click for schedule of games and more info)<\/em><\/p>\n

We are assembling the info for a full report, but in the meantime:<\/p>\n

Finals<\/strong>
\nTeam Rainey\/IAC 11
\nGrillos, Santa Cecilia MX 1
\n5 innings
\nWP-Sebastian Gervasutti
\nLP-Panfilo Valdez<\/p>\n


\nSemifinals<\/strong><\/p>\n

Team Rainey\/IAC 3
\nPortland DeMarini 2
\nWP-Bricklen Anderson
\nLP- Matias Tessore<\/p>\n

Grillos, Santa Cecilia, MX over
\nInnovative Communications
\nWP – Panfilo Valdez
\nLP – Steve Black<\/p>\n


\nQuarterfinals<\/strong>
\nTeam Rainey\/IAC 2
\nA1 Bombers 1
\nWP-Sebastian Gervasutti
\nLP-Lucas Mata
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\n(Sebastian Gervasutti of Team Rainey\/IAC, Best of the West MVPitcher)<\/em>
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\n (photo by Maddy Flanagan)<\/em><\/p>\n


\nMost Valuable Pitcher<\/strong>
\nSebastian Gervasutti
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\nMost Valuable Player<\/strong>
\nChase Turner<\/p>\n

ISC Berths<\/strong>
\nRainey\/IAC and Portland win ISC berths<\/p>\n

ISC II Berths:<\/strong>
\nInnovative Communications and Rude Pac earn ISC II berths<\/p>\n

News and notes:<\/strong>
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\nTeam Rainey\/IAC<\/strong> turned an 0-3 Saturday into a 4-0 Sunday, including a quarterfinal win over the then-unbeaten A1 So Cal Bombers. Rainey\/IAC played well enough on Saturday, but had nothing to show for it at the end of the day. Their Saturday included an extra inning, 2-1 loss to the same Bomber team, with the same pitching match-up – as Sunday, Argentines Sebastian Gervasutti for Rainey and Lucas Mata for the Bombers. <\/p>\n

The Bombers came into the tournament as the # 5 ranked team in the World, while Rainey was the next highest ranked team, at # 16. It was Rainey’s 0-3 Saturday that produced an unlikely match-up of the two powerhouses in a Sunday morning quarterfinal — the 3-0 Bombers as the top seed, and Rainey as an 0-3 low seed. As the # 5 seed from Pool A actually had to play and win an 8:30am Sunday morning game just to get to play the Bombers in the quarter final. <\/p>\n

The rematch Sunday was equal to Saturday’s game, with Rainey coming away the winner, 2-1, scoring the game winner in the bottom of the 7th inning, on a double-throwing error. Coming home with the winning run was Rainey\/IAC’s Chase Turner, who was 3-for-3 in the game, with two hits off Robbie O’Brien and a third against Lucas Mata, who came on in relief. Turner had an outstanding weekend, and was named as the tournament’s Most Valuable Player. <\/p>\n

The Best of the West victory was the fourth for Team Rainey, which won the tournament three consecutive years in 2002-2004. It was the Bombers in 2005 which broke the string, followed by Innovative Communications’ back-to-back titles in 2006 and 2007.<\/p>\n

Innovative Communications of Utah<\/strong> turned in yet another strong performance for the third year in a row, having won the Best of the West back-to-back in 2006 and 2007. They wound up tied for third this year, with Portland DeMarini, winning a dramatic come-from-behind-last inning game against Rude Pac, 5-3, to get into the semi-finals against the hitting machine that was Santa Ceclia, Mexico.<\/p>\n

Mark Summers<\/strong> of the River City Rockers hit five (count ’em, 5) home runs on the weekend, while Esteban Solano <\/strong>of the Grillos of Santa Cecelia Mexico, had four.<\/p>\n

Portland DeMarini:<\/strong> Matias Tessore pitched 22 innings, surrendering only 3 earned runs, while Matt Barnes pitched 8 innings and gave up 2 earned runs. The leading hitters for Portland on the weekend were: Todd Garcia – .364, Paul Reyes – .364, Rob Gehrke – .357 and Cullam Ryan – .308. Chris Wright, Ryan Daly, and Todd Garcia led the team in RBIs with 3 each. Jeff Reich hit a game winning home run against Long Beach Black Sox and Todd Garcia also hit a home run against Long Beach Black Sox.
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\nThe Grillos of Santa Cecila, Mexico<\/strong> hit 15 home runs as a team. (In case you were wondering, the ball was a standard issue, new model K-Master as used by the ISC, and the portable fencing was set at championship distances)<\/p>\n

River City Rockers:<\/strong> Mark Summers was 10 of 13 at bat with 5 home runs and 2 doubles. Mike Abernathy was was 8 for 13 in his first tournament of the year. Zack Abernathy was 7 for 14 and Mario Pereira was 7 for 15 with two home runs. Summers and Pereira both hit home runs off of L. Mata of the Bombers. Summers hit a home run in 4 of the 5 games the Rockers played.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(click for schedule of games and more info) We are assembling the info for a full report, but in the meantime: Finals Team Rainey\/IAC 11 Grillos, Santa Cecilia MX 1 5 innings WP-Sebastian Gervasutti LP-Panfilo Valdez Semifinals Team Rainey\/IAC 3 Portland DeMarini 2 WP-Bricklen Anderson LP- Matias Tessore Grillos, Santa Cecilia, MX over Innovative Communications […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,3,4,6,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2535"}],"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=2535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}