{"id":3660,"date":"2009-09-05T13:15:46","date_gmt":"2009-09-05T20:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=3660"},"modified":"2009-09-05T13:15:46","modified_gmt":"2009-09-05T20:15:46","slug":"illinois-fastpitch-teams-advance-in-asa-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=3660","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Fastpitch Teams Advance in ASA Nationals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.duquoin.com\/sports\/x2056227169\/Local-Fastpitch-Teams-Advance-in-ASA-Nationals\"><img src=\"http:\/\/global.static.ghm.zope.net\/resources\/global\/images\/logos\/il-duquoin_logo.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a>(click logo for original news story)<\/p>\n<p>Decatur, ILL. &#8211; An 11th inning sacrifice fly by Tim Herring scored the deciding run Friday night, pushing Elkville Fastpitch to a 6-5 marathon win over Jefferson City, Mo. SLAM at the ASA Class C Men&#8217;s Fastpitch Nationals. <\/p>\n<p>Elkville now moves to the semifina round, facing Wessel&#8217;s Coors Light of Teutopolis at 1:15 Saturday. The local team is guaranteed of finishing no worse than fifth in the 29-team tourney and beat Reading, Pa. 2-1 earlier Friday. Lance Bedar had four hits for Elkville as winning pitcher Les Wood fanned 16.<\/p>\n<p>In the Class A Nationals, also being played at Rotary Park in Decatur, Pinckneyville (KC\/Lee&#8217;s Sports defeated Mascoutah, Il. (Pete&#8217;s Blues) 7-3 late Friday night.  At 9:45 Saturday, KC\/Lee&#8217;s Sports plays Rice Creek Lightning from Wisconsin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(click logo for original news story) Decatur, ILL. &#8211; An 11th inning sacrifice fly by Tim Herring scored the deciding run Friday night, pushing Elkville Fastpitch to a 6-5 marathon win over Jefferson City, Mo. SLAM at the ASA Class C Men&#8217;s Fastpitch Nationals. Elkville now moves to the semifina round, facing Wessel&#8217;s Coors Light [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,1,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3660"}],"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=3660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}