{"id":3584,"date":"2009-08-09T19:59:12","date_gmt":"2009-08-10T02:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=3584"},"modified":"2009-08-09T21:24:13","modified_gmt":"2009-08-10T04:24:13","slug":"portage-phillies-miss-playoffs-at-westerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=3584","title":{"rendered":"Portage Phillies miss playoffs at Westerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\" http:\/\/www.cpheraldleader.com\/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1692380\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.cpheraldleader.com\/images\/www.portagedailygraphic.com.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Phillies miss playoffs at Westerns<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <em>By Eric MacKenzie, The Daily Graphic<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A tough start to the Senior B Men&#8217;s Western Canadian Fastpitch Championship in Regina was too much for the Portage Phillies to overcome, as they missed the playoff round at this weekend&#8217;s tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The Phillies, who captured a bronze medal at last year&#8217;s Westerns in Brandon, went 1-5 through the round-robin to finish eighth out of the nine teams.<\/p>\n<p>Portage&#8217;s bats were relatively silent at the event, as they posted a tournament-low 14 runs in their six games, and batting just .220 as a team.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The other teams had really quality pitching, so we didn&#8217;t hit the ball the way we normally do,&#8221; said Phillies&#8217; pitcher Gregg Waldvogel. &#8220;The teams were a lot deeper than we saw last year in Brandon, and every game was a tough game for us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Waldvogel had a rare off-weekend, struggling to an 0-3 record and a 14.00 ERA in his 13 innings of work.<\/p>\n<p>Look for the full story in The Daily Graphic newspaper, or subscribe to our online edition.<\/p>\n<p>sports.dailygraphic@shawcable.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phillies miss playoffs at Westerns By Eric MacKenzie, The Daily Graphic A tough start to the Senior B Men&#8217;s Western Canadian Fastpitch Championship in Regina was too much for the Portage Phillies to overcome, as they missed the playoff round at this weekend&#8217;s tournament. The Phillies, who captured a bronze medal at last year&#8217;s Westerns [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,1,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3584"}],"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=3584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}