{"id":4707,"date":"2010-10-20T12:42:20","date_gmt":"2010-10-20T19:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=4707"},"modified":"2010-10-20T12:42:51","modified_gmt":"2010-10-20T19:42:51","slug":"best-of-the-west-2011-june-4-5-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=4707","title":{"rendered":"Best of the West 2011 &#8211; June 4-5, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A number of people have inquired as to the future of the Best of the West Tournament in California, in the wake of the serious injuries suffered by Dave Blackburn in a car accident in August, 2010.  The prognosis is that Dave&#8217;s recovery will be a lengthy process.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nThe tournament WILL be held in 2011<\/strong>, marking its 21st consecutive year, the longest running men&#8217;s open fastpitch tournament in California.   <\/p>\n<p>A group of Dave&#8217;s friends, including myself, SCIFL league Commissioner Robert Hernandez, and the co-tournament director for the past several years, Clyde Bennett, will serve as temporary tournament directors, and hold the reins during Dave&#8217;s absence.   Dave has been the tournament director for the past 13 years, and we all look forward to his return in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Please add the date to your list of tournament dates for 2011, and watch for further updates with additional information.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\n21st Annual Best of The West Men\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Fastpitch Tournament.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>June 4th &#038; 5th, 2011<\/strong><br \/>\nElings Park,<br \/>\n1298 Las Positas Road<br \/>\nSanta Barbara, CA 93105<\/p>\n<p>Teams interested in entering the tournament, and\/or general inquiries may be sent to Jim Flanagan, jim (at) fastpitchwest.com.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<br \/>\nJim Flanagan<br \/>\nEditor, FASTPITCHWEST<br \/>\nEmail: jim (at) fastpitchwest<br \/>\nWeb:  www.fastpitchwest.com<br \/>\nTel: (562) 726-3004<\/p>\n<p>p.s. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=4607\"><strong>Click here for updates on Dave&#8217;s condition.<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A number of people have inquired as to the future of the Best of the West Tournament in California, in the wake of the serious injuries suffered by Dave Blackburn in a car accident in August, 2010. The prognosis is that Dave&#8217;s recovery will be a lengthy process. The tournament WILL be held in 2011, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,6,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4707"}],"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=4707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}