{"id":3411,"date":"2009-07-10T22:09:52","date_gmt":"2009-07-11T05:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=3411"},"modified":"2009-07-10T22:11:20","modified_gmt":"2009-07-11T05:11:20","slug":"south-african-side-heads-for-saskatoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=3411","title":{"rendered":"South African Side Heads for Saskatoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SA softball squad heads for Canada<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sowetan.co.za\/Sport\/Article.aspx?id=1031123\"><br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/www.sowetan.co.za\/Images\/Header\/sowetan-new-logo-no-tag-line.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><em><br \/>\n(click banner for original news story)<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\nTOMMY Kgomo, coach of the national softball team Simunye, says they intend using the International Softball Federation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s World Series in Saskatoon, Canada, next week to improve their world ranking.<\/p>\n<p>The South Africans are ranked 15th and can move to the 10th spot if they reach the semifinal stage of the showpiece.<\/p>\n<p>The event kicks off on July 17 and the final will be played 11 days later in Saskatoon. In their final preparations for the event, Simunye won two of three friendly matches against Botswana last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153 We have been playing well in our preparatory matches and I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t see why we should struggle in Canada,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Kgomo said yesterday. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We have been in this tournament before and we know what will be required of us to deliver.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Simunye will be led by veteran campaigners such as Tyran Young, Moses \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Vasna\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Molaba, Greg Barrette and Anthony Carr. \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Matome Lebea<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SA softball squad heads for Canada (click banner for original news story) TOMMY Kgomo, coach of the national softball team Simunye, says they intend using the International Softball Federation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s World Series in Saskatoon, Canada, next week to improve their world ranking. The South Africans are ranked 15th and can move to the 10th spot if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3411"}],"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=3411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}