{"id":321,"date":"2005-07-02T21:51:54","date_gmt":"2005-07-03T05:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=321"},"modified":"2005-07-02T21:52:16","modified_gmt":"2005-07-03T05:52:16","slug":"australia-tops-japan-awaits-winner-of-canada-japan-for-gold-medal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=321","title":{"rendered":"Australia Tops Japan, Awaits Winner of Canada-Japan for Gold Medal at ISF Junior Worlds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Folkard lands Aussies in Jr. Softball Worlds final<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>SUMMERSIDE &#8211; For the third straight ISF Junior Men&#8217;s World Softball  Championship, Australia will be in the championship final. The Aussies can make their mark in Junior World Softball as they go for the three-peat after a 15-strikeout performance from Adam Folkard Saturday night in a 6-1 win over Japan during semifinal Saturday at ISF 2005 Junior Men&#8217;s World Softball Championship at Queen Elizabeth Park&#8217;s VIV Field in Summerside. Leading the Aussie attack was Travis Southam (2-2, run scored, RBI), Jon Hudson (2-3, run scored, double), Shaun Mason (1-2, RBI, double) and Jamie Sheehan (1-2, two runs scored).  For Japan, Masaki Sawada (2-3, run scored, Akifumi Horita (1-4) and Takuto Tsutsui (1-3) led the way. Folkard pitched a complete game five-hitter walking two.  Losing pitcher Hayami Takahashi who went two and one third innings allowing two runs on three hits walking three and fanning one. Hikaru<br \/>\nMatsuda went three innings allowing three runs on four hits, and striking out one. Tatsuya Oyama went two-third innings allowing a run on two hits and walking one. The Aussie win puts them into the championship final at 3 p.m. Sunday to face the winner of the 12 p.m. noon game between Japan and Canada. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.2005worldsoftball.com\">http:\/\/www.2005worldsoftball.com<\/a><br \/>\nPat Healey<br \/>\nMARKETING AND MEDIA CONSULTANT<br \/>\nISF 2005 JR MEN&#8217;S WORLD SOFTBALL CHAMPIONSHIPS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Folkard lands Aussies in Jr. Softball Worlds final SUMMERSIDE &#8211; For the third straight ISF Junior Men&#8217;s World Softball Championship, Australia will be in the championship final. The Aussies can make their mark in Junior World Softball as they go for the three-peat after a 15-strikeout performance from Adam Folkard Saturday night in a 6-1 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321"}],"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=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}