{"id":3446,"date":"2009-07-16T19:07:12","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T02:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=3446"},"modified":"2009-07-16T19:16:48","modified_gmt":"2009-07-17T02:16:48","slug":"20-california-as-to-face-10-midland-in-isc-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=3446","title":{"rendered":"# 20 California A&#8217;s to face # 10 Midland in ISC  World Tournament Opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.iscfastpitch.com\/images\/isclogo.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The # 20 ranked California A&#8217;s will open the 2009 ISC World Tournament against the # 10 ranked Midland Explorers, of Midland, Michigan on <strong>Saturday afternoon, August 15, at  1:00 p.m. CDT, 11:00 a.m. PDT\/West coast time<\/strong>.  <\/p>\n<p>The California squad is comprised of a nucleus of players from last year&#8217;s ISC II Tournament of Champion California Lumberkings, as well as the So Cal Bombers, who finished 6th out of a field of 32 teams with a 4-2 record in the ISC World tournament.  Midland finished 21st, with a 2-2 record last year.  The Explorers are one of the longest running programs in the ISC and will be the host for next year&#8217;s ISC World Tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The winner will advance in the double elimination tournament to face the # 7 ranked <strong>Vancouver Grey Sox, B.C<\/strong>. on Sunday night, August 16, at 6:00 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The loser will drop into the loser&#8217;s bracket to play the loser of game 11, on Monday morning at 11:00 a.m. CDT, 9:00 a.m. PDT, a second round game between the winner of Dominican Republic\/Winterset and # 6 Jarvis, Ontario, Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The # 20 ranked California A&#8217;s will open the 2009 ISC World Tournament against the # 10 ranked Midland Explorers, of Midland, Michigan on Saturday afternoon, August 15, at 1:00 p.m. CDT, 11:00 a.m. PDT\/West coast time. The California squad is comprised of a nucleus of players from last year&#8217;s ISC II Tournament of Champion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,18,6,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3446"}],"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=3446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}