{"id":4867,"date":"2010-11-18T19:03:28","date_gmt":"2010-11-19T02:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=4867"},"modified":"2010-11-18T19:05:59","modified_gmt":"2010-11-19T02:05:59","slug":"all-in-softball-brawl-sees-stern-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=4867","title":{"rendered":"All in Softball brawl sees stern response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawkesbaytoday.co.nz\/local\/news\/all-in-softball-brawl-sees-stern-response\/3930726\/\"><img src=\"http:\/\/media.hawkesbaytoday.co.nz\/nz_regionals\/www_hawkesbaytoday_co_nz\/gfx\/logo.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Softball Hawke&#8217;s Bay managing director Roger Aranui has promised tough judicial measures after an all-in brawl led to the abandonment of a second premier men&#8217;s clash within a week last night.<\/p>\n<p>Umpire Eric Horsham called off the match between Fast Pitch and Saints at Akina Park, Hastings before the second inning had been completed. The brawl erupted at first base after a confrontation between Saints first baseman Paul Roberts and Fast Pitch infielder Te Rangi Chadwick, who had been called out for leaving base early.<\/p>\n<p>Supporters from both teams ran on to the diamond to get involved. With the assistance of team officials, Horsham did a top job to reduce the risk of additional confrontation and after ending the game, sent both teams to opposite ends of the main diamond to cool down.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our board is 100 per cent behind the umpires and won&#8217;t tolerate this sort of behaviour,&#8221; Mr Aranui told Hawke&#8217;s Bay Today this morning after reading the umpire&#8217;s report.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We launched a Stepping Up To The Plate campaign at the start of the season and it&#8217;s clear some players are struggling to do that,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>He agreed the closeness of the province&#8217;s premier men&#8217;s competition and the fact 23 players are battling for 15 berths in Hawke&#8217;s Bay&#8217;s National Fastpitch Championship side which will play in the country&#8217;s elite competition has created an extra edge to this season&#8217;s play.<\/p>\n<p>Last weekend the Fast Pitch-Dodgers match was called off in the bottom off the first inning after Dodgers infielder Joe O&#8217;Leary refused to leave the park after being ejected.<\/p>\n<p>He received a one-match suspension.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nClick logo above for complete, original news story.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Softball Hawke&#8217;s Bay managing director Roger Aranui has promised tough judicial measures after an all-in brawl led to the abandonment of a second premier men&#8217;s clash within a week last night. Umpire Eric Horsham called off the match between Fast Pitch and Saints at Akina Park, Hastings before the second inning had been completed. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4867"}],"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=4867"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4870,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4867\/revisions\/4870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}