{"id":2669,"date":"2008-07-01T22:38:03","date_gmt":"2008-07-02T05:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=2669"},"modified":"2008-07-01T22:43:27","modified_gmt":"2008-07-02T05:43:27","slug":"midwest-stampede-wins-albaugh-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=2669","title":{"rendered":"Midwest Stampede Wins Albaugh Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>From Dennis Frye:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe Midwest Stampede in Thrilling fashion WON in the 8th inning, to rally and Capture the Prize against a Very Tough Townline team from Green Bay 8-7 on Sunday afternoon . They also met on Saturday night and went back and forth in a see-saw affair , coming out on top 8-5 ! The Fast-pitch action all weekend had to deal with Strong winds and Sprinkle&#8217;s but The Higher Power wanted Softball at it&#8217;s Finest to be on DISPLAY for ALL who were here to Experience the Atmosphere . <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Grill was smoking with Brats and Burgers and Fans were gasping for air as one hard hit ball was snatched in mid &#8211; air or Cleared the Fence ! Radar guns were showing speeds in the 80&#8217;s , The Blasting sound of Metal was heard everywhere in Elkhart from the Train tracks and The Batter&#8217;s Box ! The sound of Leather was heard often as These Talented and Gifted ATHLETE&#8217;s were diving and Gunning Runner&#8217;s out all weekend . Blow HORNS let passing traffic know that The Stampede had something exciting happen on the field as they rang out to ADD atmosphere to Memorial Park ! Manager&#8217;s and The Blue Crew were sometimes discussing dinner arrangements . The Stampede opened on Friday and faced A &#038; L Farms from Omaha and Veteran Pitcher Darrin Dubsky. A 9-1 outcome ended , with a Saturday 3-2 win against Kegel from Morehead Minnesota , to set up a REMATCH with Townline and its only loss of the season. <\/p>\n<p>A Fantastic weekend of ball was kicked off with The Midwest Stampede sharing a Thursday evening with The Iowa Cubs. Three inches of Rain Pelted the Des Moines area and the Game was played and Everyone had a Great time and The Des Moines area Cubs fans are now aware of The Midwest Stampede ! I want to Thank ALL of those who made it possible and Helped in any way ! The Midwest Stampede stand at 20 &#8211; 1 as we take the 4th of July off The Boys of Summer will be July 11th &#8211; 13th in Denmark , Wisconsin for The Mini World Tournament Mid Season CLASH of The Best Teams on The Planet !  Fast-pitch  ASA District action starts July 3 rd &#8211; 7th at The GDM Complex located at 46th &#038; Broadway <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Dennis Frye: The Midwest Stampede in Thrilling fashion WON in the 8th inning, to rally and Capture the Prize against a Very Tough Townline team from Green Bay 8-7 on Sunday afternoon . They also met on Saturday night and went back and forth in a see-saw affair , coming out on top 8-5 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2669"}],"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=2669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}