{"id":2893,"date":"2008-09-10T18:06:15","date_gmt":"2008-09-11T01:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=2893"},"modified":"2008-09-10T20:01:24","modified_gmt":"2008-09-11T03:01:24","slug":"three-california-teams-in-top-10-at-2008-isc-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=2893","title":{"rendered":"Three California Teams in Top 10 at 2008 ISC II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The official Final Order of Finish for the 2008 ISC II Tournament of Champions was released at the ISC website today.  (see below)<\/p>\n<p>All three California teams finished in the Top 10, with the Bakersfield Lumberkings coming away with the championship trophy in this highly competititive event.   <\/p>\n<p>The 2008 ISC II marked the third trip to the ISC II Tournament of Champions for the Lumberkings, who improved in three consecutive years.  In 2006, they became the first California team ever to compete in the event, qualfying for the playoff round, and winning their first round game before elimination.  In 2007, the Lumberkings were the runners-up, falling to TNT of South Lebanon, Pennsylvania in the finals, after eliminating another California team, A-1 Taylor Farms in extra innings in the semi-finals.  This year, they reached the top of the mountain, combining forces with many of the A-1 Taylor Farms players.<\/p>\n<p>2008 was the first time that the River City Rockers of Sacramento, California and Rude Pac of Sun Valley competed in the tournament, with both clubs finishing in the top 10 and coming away with winning records.  <\/p>\n<p>California teams were a combined 15-5 in this year&#8217;s T of C.<\/p>\n<p>Photos from the tournament available at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maddysphotos.com\"><strong>www.maddysphotos.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>From the official ISC Website:<br \/>\n09\/10\/08<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iscfastpitch.com\/index.php?page=169\"><br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/www.iscfastpitch.com\/uploads\/images\/ISC_II_Tournament_logo_2008.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>                      <strong>FINAL STANDINGS<\/p>\n<p>RANK\tTEAM\tWON\tLOST<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1\tBakersfield, CA Taylor Farms LumberKings\t7\t1<\/strong><br \/>\n2\tWaterdown, ON Hammer\t6\t1<br \/>\nT3\tNew York, NY Knights\t5\t1<br \/>\nT3\tKitchener, ON Outlaws\t5\t1<br \/>\n<strong>T5\tSacramento, CA River City Rockers\t5\t2<\/strong><br \/>\nT5\tAshland, OH Stock Pack\t4\t1<br \/>\nT5\tSt. Paul, MN ASB Villard\t4\t2<br \/>\nT5\tOttawa, ON Team Easton Thunder\t3\t2<br \/>\nT9\tElmira, ON Cubs\t3\t1<br \/>\n<strong>T9\tSun Valley, CA Rude Pac\t3\t2<\/strong><br \/>\nT9\tPerkasie, PA Hoffman Rise\t3\t2<br \/>\nT9\tWilkes-Barre, PA Keating&#8217;s Fitness Center\t3\t2<br \/>\nT9\tOswego, NY Cutro Professional Inspections\t3\t2<br \/>\nT9\tMascoutah, IL Pete&#8217;s Blues\t3\t3<br \/>\nT9\tLloydminster, AB PWM Steel Dodgers\t2\t2<br \/>\nT9\tBridgeport, ON PROforma Braves\t2\t2<br \/>\nT17\tSioux Falls, SD Sox\t2\t2<br \/>\nT17\tPalermo, ON Athletics\t2\t2<br \/>\nT17\tBulyea, SK Rustlers\t2\t3<br \/>\nT17\tElora, ON Wellington Brewers\t2\t3<br \/>\nT17\tHermann, MO Black Gold\t2\t3<br \/>\nT17\tWyevale, ON Tribe\t2\t3<br \/>\nT17\tWaverly, MN Herda and Sons\t1\t4<br \/>\nT17\tSalt Lake City, UT Innovative Communications\t1\t4<br \/>\nT25\tMemphis, TN Posse\t1\t3<br \/>\nT25\tCarp, ON I4C Victory\t1\t3<br \/>\nT25\tSouth Lebanon, PA TNT\t1\t3<br \/>\nT25\tChicago, IL Fastpitch Club\t1\t3<br \/>\nT25\tKelvington, SK PDC Comets\t0\t4<br \/>\nT25\tAppleton, WI The Bar of Appleton II\t0\t4<br \/>\nT25\tWinterset, IA A&#8217;s\t0\t4<br \/>\nT25\tKenosha, WI Earl&#8217;s Club\t0\t4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The official Final Order of Finish for the 2008 ISC II Tournament of Champions was released at the ISC website today. (see below) All three California teams finished in the Top 10, with the Bakersfield Lumberkings coming away with the championship trophy in this highly competititive event. The 2008 ISC II marked the third trip [&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\/2893"}],"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=2893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}