{"id":3404,"date":"2009-07-10T00:07:20","date_gmt":"2009-07-10T07:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=3404"},"modified":"2009-07-10T07:59:17","modified_gmt":"2009-07-10T14:59:17","slug":"senior-selects-earn-split-with-aussies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=3404","title":{"rendered":"Senior Selects earn split with Aussies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.owensoundsuntimes.com\/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1648171\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.owensoundsuntimes.com\/images\/www.owensoundsuntimes.com.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Senior Selects earn split with Aussies<\/p>\n<p>face New Zealand tonight<\/p>\n<p>Posted By THE SUN TIMES<\/p>\n<p>The Owen Sound Verge Senior Selects earned a split with the Australian National Team after downing the visitors 3-2 in the nightcap Tuesday in men&#8217;s fastball exhibition action.<\/p>\n<p>Adam Dearborn had two solo homers for Owen Sound while Matt Lyon had one solo shot.<\/p>\n<p>Andy Skelton earned the win for Owen Sound, allowing four hits and five walks while striking out four in five-and-two-third innings. Jamie Simpson gave up a hit and a walk in an inning-and-a-third of relief.<\/p>\n<p>Former Scenic City Automotive Crunch pitcher Andrew Kirkpatrick was tagged for the loss in allowing three hits &#8212; all homers &#8212; while striking out 12 over five innings.<\/p>\n<p>Adam Humble allowed a hit while striking out for in two innings of relief.<\/p>\n<p>Australia won the opener Tuesday 8-1 in a five-inning game.<\/p>\n<p>Owen Sound hosts the three-time defending world champion New Zealand Black Sox tonight. Game 1 of the doubleheader gets underway at 7 p. m. at Duncan McLellan Park.<\/p>\n<p>Both the Aussies and the Kiwis are touring Ontario and playing a series of exhibition games in preparation for the 2009 International Softball Federation world championships which run July 17 to 28 in Saskatoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senior Selects earn split with Aussies face New Zealand tonight Posted By THE SUN TIMES The Owen Sound Verge Senior Selects earned a split with the Australian National Team after downing the visitors 3-2 in the nightcap Tuesday in men&#8217;s fastball exhibition action. Adam Dearborn had two solo homers for Owen Sound while Matt Lyon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3404"}],"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=3404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}