{"id":2789,"date":"2008-08-13T11:37:20","date_gmt":"2008-08-13T18:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=2789"},"modified":"2008-08-14T09:36:49","modified_gmt":"2008-08-14T16:36:49","slug":"lumberkings-win-again-advance-to-final-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=2789","title":{"rendered":"Lumberkings Win Again, Advance to Final Four"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Marcus Tan Leads the Way Once Again<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/images2\/lumberkings_150.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Taylor Farms Lumberkings from California won their fifth game Wednesday morning, a 3-1 win over Team Easton Thunder of Ottawa, Canada, to advance to the Final Four at the 2008 ISC II Tournament of Champions.   Young 23-year-old second baseman Marcus Tan started off the game with an inside the park home run, for a lead the Lumberkings would never surrendered.  Jeff Twist reached base after a strike out pass ball, and came around to score the second run.  Ottawa trimmed the lead to 2-1 on an unearned run, though the Lumberkings added a key insurance run in the 6th on a Marcus Tan sacrifice fly.   Centerfielder Brian Teeters made a game saving catch in the bottom of the 6th on a long gap shot with a man aboard.  <\/p>\n<p>The Lumberkings advance to a semi-final game against the unbeaten New York Knights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marcus Tan Leads the Way Once Again The Taylor Farms Lumberkings from California won their fifth game Wednesday morning, a 3-1 win over Team Easton Thunder of Ottawa, Canada, to advance to the Final Four at the 2008 ISC II Tournament of Champions. Young 23-year-old second baseman Marcus Tan started off the game with an [&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\/2789"}],"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=2789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}