{"id":3953,"date":"2010-04-07T14:26:02","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T21:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=3953"},"modified":"2010-04-07T14:29:36","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T21:29:36","slug":"20th-annual-best-of-the-west-june-5-6-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=3953","title":{"rendered":"20th Annual Best of The West &#8211; June 5-6, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>20th Annual Best of The West Tournament Now Has 8 Entries<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>April 7, 2010, Santa Barbara, California \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 8 teams have now entered into the 20th Annual Best of The West Tournament, It is happening on June 5 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 6 at Elings Park, located in the beachside resort city of Santa Barbara.<\/p>\n<p>An ISC World Tournament Berth is available to the highest finishing<br \/>\nWest Region team competing with it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s approved 2010 ISC roster.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Entered are:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>California Builders<br \/>\nCalifornia Athletics<br \/>\nBakersfield SilverHawks<br \/>\nRude Pac<br \/>\nWest Coast Smokers<br \/>\nMaccabi USA<br \/>\nItalian Athletic Club<br \/>\nLiberty Fastpitch<\/p>\n<p>Interest in entering has also been shown by:<\/p>\n<p>Mexico National Team<br \/>\nMexicali Santa Cecelia<br \/>\nCarribean Fastpitch<br \/>\nColton Dirt Bags<\/p>\n<p>A waiting list has now been started to bump the field up to either<br \/>\n10 or 12 teams (max). We will not expand to either 9 or 11 teams.<br \/>\nEntry fee is $450. Any teams interested in grabbing one of the last<br \/>\nspots in the Tournament should immediately contact:<\/p>\n<p>Dave Blackburn<br \/>\nTournament Director<br \/>\n310-266-7803<br \/>\ndaveb (at) virtvent.com<\/p>\n<p><strong>Editor&#8217;s Note:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/images2\/bow_1992.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nThe image above is from an old T-shirt from the 2nd Best of the West in 1992, in the days when the &#8220;Bombers&#8221; were from Vista \ud83d\ude09 Recognize any of those other teams?<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of Best of the West history, we are looking for any information (scores, recaps, etc.) from the &#8220;early years&#8221; &#8211; pre- 1998.  If you have any, or know of someone that does, please email the editor, jim (at) fastpitchwest (dot) com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>20th Annual Best of The West Tournament Now Has 8 Entries April 7, 2010, Santa Barbara, California \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 8 teams have now entered into the 20th Annual Best of The West Tournament, It is happening on June 5 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 6 at Elings Park, located in the beachside resort city of Santa Barbara. An ISC World [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,6,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3953"}],"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=3953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}