{"id":3777,"date":"2009-11-25T11:44:19","date_gmt":"2009-11-25T18:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=3777"},"modified":"2009-11-25T11:45:14","modified_gmt":"2009-11-25T18:45:14","slug":"kohlhase-likely-to-return-to-black-sox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=3777","title":{"rendered":"Kohlhase likely to return to Black Sox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/sport\/3097726\/Kohlhase-likely-to-return-to-Black-Sox\"><img src=\"http:\/\/static.stuff.co.nz\/1233366198\/441\/941441.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>(click logo for original news story)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>By TONY SMITH &#8211; The Press<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\nIncumbent coach Eddie Kohlhase has been offered another chance to lead the Black Sox back to the world men&#8217;s softball championship title.<\/p>\n<p>Kohlhase beat out a bid by recently retired longtime Black Sox pitcher Marty Grant.<\/p>\n<p>The Press understands Kohlhase was offered the position earlier this week. His appointment is set to be officially confirmed next Tuesday at a function in Wellington when Softball New Zealand launches the new National Fastpitch Championship.<\/p>\n<p>Softball New Zealand (SNZ) general manager Dane Dougan was only prepared to say yesterday that &#8220;a person has been offered the role. We are just working out the contracting [details] now&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Kohlhase had hoped to guide the Black Sox to a record fourth consecutive world championship title in Saskatoon, Canada last July after stepping up to the plate as head coach following two successful campaigns as Don Tricker&#8217;s assistant in 2000 and 2004.<\/p>\n<p>But the Black Sox lost the Saskatoon final 0-5 to Australia after losing 0-7 to their trans-Tasman rivals in the first round of the playoff series.<\/p>\n<p>The much-vaunted Black Sox batting lineup \u00e2\u20ac\u201c obsessed as they were with longball hitting \u00e2\u20ac\u201c failed to score a run off ace Australian pitcher Adam Folkard in two games.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Sox&#8217;s campaign was reviewed by a committee comprising Kohlhase, team manager Wayne Small, Dougan and SNZ chairman Rex Capil.<\/p>\n<p>Dougan said yesterday SNZ&#8217;s board supported the committee&#8217;s six key recommendations.<\/p>\n<p>These include more focus on high-performance programmes and better definition of management roles.<\/p>\n<p>Softball New Zealand will work with the International Softball Federation and other national federations to set up a &#8220;sanctioned and recognised&#8221; international programme.<\/p>\n<p>SNZ will look to develop a national team for &#8220;men in between the Junior Black Sox [under-19 squad] and the Black Sox&#8221;. &#8220;Whether this is an under-23 [team] or a New Zealand A concept is still to be explored,&#8221; Dougan said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(click logo for original news story) By TONY SMITH &#8211; The Press Incumbent coach Eddie Kohlhase has been offered another chance to lead the Black Sox back to the world men&#8217;s softball championship title. Kohlhase beat out a bid by recently retired longtime Black Sox pitcher Marty Grant. The Press understands Kohlhase was offered the [&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\/3777"}],"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=3777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}