{"id":593,"date":"2005-10-06T22:03:05","date_gmt":"2005-10-07T06:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=593"},"modified":"2005-10-07T09:52:17","modified_gmt":"2005-10-07T17:52:17","slug":"so-cal-bombers-win-mexicali-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=593","title":{"rendered":"So Cal Bombers Win Mexicali Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The So Cal Bombers won the Mexicali tournament this past weekend, with a perfect 5-0 record, including a 5-0 shutout win over former Bomber Panfilo Valdez&#8217;s team in the Championship game.  Jason Porto hit a 2-run homer in the first inning of the title game, and Arturo Solano socked a 2-run homer in the 6th to put the game away.   <\/p>\n<p>Bomber&#8217;s pitcher <strong>Sean Whitten<\/strong> had 17 K&#8217;s in the championship and was <strong>Most Valuable Pitcher<\/strong> for the tourney.   Whitten had two of the Bombers wins, giving up 0 runs and striking out 34 in his two starts. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Raymundo Parra<\/strong> was selected the tournament&#8217;s <strong>Most Valuable Player<\/strong>, hitting 3 homeruns on the weekend. <\/p>\n<p>Bomber pitcher Travis Price was 2-0, only allowing 2 earned runs in 13 innings of work.<\/p>\n<p>The Bombers&#8217; Championship roster included the following players:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dan Winnick \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Walnut Creek, Calif.<br \/>\n       Jason Porto \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Elk Grove, Calif.<br \/>\n       Cesar Rodriguez &#8211; Huntington Beach, Calif.<br \/>\n       Travis Price \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Corona, Calif.<br \/>\n       Sean Whitten \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Calgary, AB, Canada<br \/>\n       Glenn Ormsby \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Kelowna, BC, Canada<br \/>\n       Greg Crawford \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Calgary, AB. Canada<br \/>\n       Kelly Wenstrom &#8211;  Calgary, AB, Canada<br \/>\n       Ray Parra \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Ensenada, BC, MX<br \/>\n       Estephan  Solano \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Mexicali, BC, MX<br \/>\n       Arturo Solano \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Mexicali, BC, MX<br \/>\n       Omar Moraga \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Tucson,AZ <\/p>\n<p>        Coach: Cesar Rodriguez <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Another local So Cal team also competed in the tournament, Raymar, of Santa Ana, California.   Raymar finished 1-2, dropping games to Panfilo Valdez&#8217;s team, and a team with a pitcher on Mexico&#8217;s National team.  Raymar defeated Los Grillos (&#8220;The Crickets&#8221;, en Ingles).  Gerald Pyle, Andy Martinez, and Angel &#8220;Yogi&#8221; Saucedo were among the players on the Raymar squad.<\/p>\n<p><em>Editor&#8217;s note: See &#8220;Comments&#8221; &#8211; link just below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The So Cal Bombers won the Mexicali tournament this past weekend, with a perfect 5-0 record, including a 5-0 shutout win over former Bomber Panfilo Valdez&#8217;s team in the Championship game. Jason Porto hit a 2-run homer in the first inning of the title game, and Arturo Solano socked a 2-run homer in the 6th [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,11,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593"}],"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=593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}