{"id":2722,"date":"2008-07-25T05:16:29","date_gmt":"2008-07-25T12:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=2722"},"modified":"2008-07-25T09:08:31","modified_gmt":"2008-07-25T16:08:31","slug":"lumberkings-at-vancouver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=2722","title":{"rendered":"Lumberkings at Vancouver Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three Round Robin Games Saturday
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The California Lumberkings will get a look at some of the world’s best teams in Vancouver, Canada this weekend at the Vancouver Challenge. The Lumberkings are currently the # 1 ranked team in the ISC II division as they gear up for a run at the the ISC II Tournament of Champions title in Appleton August 10-13, 2008. The Lumberkings narrowly missed the top spot last year, making it to the championship game before falling to the TNT squad of South Lebanon, PA. This year’s roster was bolstered by some of the top players from the 2007 A-1 Taylor Farms team, which finished third at last year’s ISC T of C, right behind the Lumberkings, who eliminated them in an extra inning semi-final game.<\/p>\n

The Lumberkings will be missing a few of their regulars, this weekend though. Says Lumberking’s skipper, David Weldin:<\/p>\n

“This weekend is going to be a tough weekend for us. We are missing 4 guys from our lineup. We should be able to get a lot of guys some at bats to prepare for the ToC in 3 weeks. We are going to have to play smart fundamental softball this weekend.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here is the schedule for the Lumberkings at the Vancouver Challenge, who will be in the “Blue” pool, with the Camrose, AB Fury, Portland, OR DeMarini, and Vernon, BC DC Arrows.<\/p>\n

\nRound Robin games:
\nSATURDAY – July 26<\/strong><\/p>\n

10:00 – California vs. Vernon
\n 1:30 – California vs. Camrose
\n 3:30 – California vs. Portland<\/p>\n

PLAYOFF SCHEDULE<\/p>\n

SATURDAY – July 26<\/p>\n

P1 – 7:00 – R3 vs B3 – loser eliminated – winner to P3
\n P2 – 9:00 – R4 vs B4 – loser eliminated – winner to P4<\/p>\n

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SUNDAY – July 27 (for winning teams that advance)<\/p>\n

P3 – 8:00 winner P1 vs. R2 – loser eliminated – winner to P5
\n P4 – 8:00 winner P2 vs B2 – loser eliminated – winner to P6 – SW Diamond
\n P5 – 10:00 winner P3 vs B1 – loser eliminated – winner to P7
\n P6 – 12:00 winner P4 vs. R1 – loser eliminated – winner to P7
\n P7 – 2:00 – Championship Final<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Three Round Robin Games Saturday The California Lumberkings will get a look at some of the world’s best teams in Vancouver, Canada this weekend at the Vancouver Challenge. The Lumberkings are currently the # 1 ranked team in the ISC II division as they gear up for a run at the the ISC II Tournament […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,4,6,11,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2722"}],"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=2722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}