{"id":2666,"date":"2008-07-01T13:15:35","date_gmt":"2008-07-01T20:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=2666"},"modified":"2008-07-01T14:05:52","modified_gmt":"2008-07-01T21:05:52","slug":"usa-jr-men-at-isf-junior-world-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=2666","title":{"rendered":"USA Jr. Men at ISF Junior World Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/admin.usasoftball.com\/folders.asp?uid=958\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/images2\/isf08\/usa.softball.120.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldsoftball2008.com\/\"><br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/www.worldsoftball2008.com\/skin\/jrfastpitchlogo.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>(click logo for official tournament website)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The USA Jr. Men played tough against many of the top finishing teams in the tournament, losing a number of one-run ballgames.  Their low point was the 12-2 loss to 9th place South Africa.  The high points were the a 7-6 extra inning win over Mexico (which came at the end of a day that saw them lose a tough 7am game to New Zealand, 3-2, and and another to Argentina, 5-4) and a hard fought 1-0 loss in 8 innings to Team Canada in the final game of the round robin portion of the tournament.  In that final game, USA Jr. Men&#8217;s pitcher BJ Hunhoff shut out the silver medalists through regulation, striking out 9 and surrending but 2 hits.<\/p>\n<p><strong>USA Jr. Men against the top finishers:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Austrailia, gold medalists: USA lost 9-0<br \/>\nCanada, silver medalists: USA lost 1-0 in 8 innings<br \/>\nJapan, bronze medalists, USA lost 4-2<br \/>\nNew Zealand, 4th place: USA lost 3-2<\/p>\n<p>Argentina, 5th place, USA lost, 5-4<br \/>\nVenezuela, 6th place, USA won, 12-4<br \/>\nMexico, 7th place: USA won 7-6<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(click logo for official tournament website) The USA Jr. Men played tough against many of the top finishing teams in the tournament, losing a number of one-run ballgames. Their low point was the 12-2 loss to 9th place South Africa. The high points were the a 7-6 extra inning win over Mexico (which came at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2666"}],"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=2666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}