{"id":4535,"date":"2010-08-16T20:07:50","date_gmt":"2010-08-17T03:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=4535"},"modified":"2010-08-16T20:33:48","modified_gmt":"2010-08-17T03:33:48","slug":"l-paso-steel-wins-nafa-a-major-world-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=4535","title":{"rendered":"El Paso Steel Wins NAFA A-Major World Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>El Paso Steel won the A-Major World Series in Des Moines Iowa this past weekend going 7-1.  It was not an easy saturday night after losing to Goring Law Care out of Minnesota 10-3. On sunday morning Steel came back to face a strong New York City Bombers team and won 8-4 as El Paso&#8217;s offense came to life in the sixth after being down 4-3.  El Paso then had to win two games against GLC to take the world title.  Tony Mancha was given the ball all day Sunday pitching 3 games and winning all three earning him the ALL WORLD MVP.  Noe Soto, Lauro Felix and Hector Garcia also earned All World honors. Albert Gomez said it was a total team effort, the guys showed alot of heart and determination.  In the first game Steel had a quick start scoring four runs in the first inning.  Hector Garcia hit a big two run home run putting Steel ahead 6 &#8211; 2 and held the lead comfortably to win 8 &#8211; 4.  In the &#8220;if&#8221; game Henry Sedillo started a big rally with a lead off single jump starting once again Steel&#8217;s big bats that lead to a 5 &#8211; 0 lead in the first inning.  GLC manage to scratch 2 runs in the second cutting the lead 5 -2.  Jorge Correra kept the scoring going for Steel with a big home run giving them a 7 &#8211; 2 lead.  Tony Mancha kept GLC at bay mixing a variety of pitches. El Paso Steel went on to dominate the final game with the score ending at 7 -3 to win the NAFA World Series title.  Robert Erives said it was a great feeling winning the title among close friends. This marks the second tournament that two southwest teams have competed well in National and World tournaments; The Las Cruces Wolfpack also won second place in Mens Class C ASA National Tournmanent in Salem, Oregon. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>El Paso Steel won the A-Major World Series in Des Moines Iowa this past weekend going 7-1. It was not an easy saturday night after losing to Goring Law Care out of Minnesota 10-3. On sunday morning Steel came back to face a strong New York City Bombers team and won 8-4 as El Paso&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4535"}],"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=4535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}