{"id":4651,"date":"2010-09-07T05:41:47","date_gmt":"2010-09-07T12:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=4651"},"modified":"2010-09-07T05:42:25","modified_gmt":"2010-09-07T12:42:25","slug":"4651","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=4651","title":{"rendered":"R-Twins claim back-to-back titles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.therecord.com\/Sports\/article\/773368\"><img src=\"http:\/\/news.therecord.com\/App_Themes\/TheStar\/images\/recordlogo.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Click logo to see original story<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> September 06, 2010<br \/>\nRecord staff<\/p>\n<p>CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I. \u00e2\u20ac\u201d The Kitchener Rivershark Twins earned a measure of redemption when they downed the hosts 6-1 in the title game at the Canadian senior men\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fastpitch championship on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The defending national champion R-Twins stumbled in their quest to collect three consecutive world club team titles a couple of weeks ago, settling for second place, but were not to be denied at the national championship.<\/p>\n<p>Rowan Lam collected two RBI for the winners who roared undefeated through the weeklong tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Hurricane Earl forced Saturday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s playoff round to be contested on Friday, but not even that could deter the R-Twins who recorded their first Canadian title in the team\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s four-decade history last year in St. Thomas.<\/p>\n<p>Don Scott and Paul Koert combined for the championship win. The duo scattered six hits while R-Twins ace Todd Martin remained on the shelf with a shoulder injury.<\/p>\n<p>Familiar foe Frank Cox absorbed the loss. He allowed three earned runs through three and a third innings for the hosts, known as the Gahan House Fawcetts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.quakerriversharks.com\/Templates\/includes\/shark_logo2.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click logo to see original story September 06, 2010 Record staff CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I. \u00e2\u20ac\u201d The Kitchener Rivershark Twins earned a measure of redemption when they downed the hosts 6-1 in the title game at the Canadian senior men\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fastpitch championship on Sunday. The defending national champion R-Twins stumbled in their quest to collect three consecutive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,1,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4651"}],"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=4651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}