{"id":634,"date":"2005-11-06T22:10:25","date_gmt":"2005-11-07T06:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=634"},"modified":"2005-11-18T19:00:19","modified_gmt":"2005-11-19T03:00:19","slug":"california-chaos-brings-order-to-cal-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=634","title":{"rendered":"California Chaos Brings Order to Cal Cup II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>California Chaos<\/strong> reeled off four straight wins Sunday, to finish a perfect 7-0 on the weekend, and capture the 2nd Annual Cal Cup tournament, at Palm Springs, Sunday, including a 6-1 championship game win over the So Cal Hustlers.   Chaos ousted Sun Fastpitch in the semi-finals while the Hustlers reached the title game with a win over Quicksilver.  The Chaos accepted the Cal Cup, taking over from last year&#8217;s inaugural winner, Fred Hanker&#8217;s Long Beach Black Sox.  The Cal Cup is a perpetual trophy, handed off each year from the previous winner, a la Stanley Cup.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Scott Harrison<\/strong> of California Chaos was named the <strong>Most Valuable Player<\/strong> of the tournament, hitting a home run in the semi-final and championship game, the difference maker in both games and made a diving catch in centerfield with two on in the 7th of the semi-final game against Sun Fastpitch to preserve the win.   Chaos pitchers <strong>Robby Epp<\/strong> and <strong>Brett Pobantz<\/strong> were selected as <strong>co-Most Valuable Pitchers<\/strong>, posting identical 3-0 records.  <\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/images2\/calcup125.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Cal Cup tournament travels to one of California&#8217;s three fastball regions each year, North, Central or South.  The first Cal Cup was hosted in 2004 by Central California, in Fresno, California.   This year&#8217;s tournament was hosted by Vicki Oltean and the City of Palm Springs, in Southern California, so the tournament heads north next year to a site to be determined.   Those teams or cities in Northern California interested in hosting the tournament can email us, <em>calcup [at] fastpitchwest.com <\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/tournaments\/california\/Cal_Cup\/Cal_Cup.htm\">Click here for complete scoreboard, standings, seeding, a few photos, and Sunday&#8217;s schedule of games.<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nFull story to follow.<\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\nHave you posted your flag at the Frappr Fastball Map? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frappr.com\/fastpitchwest\">Click here for details<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California Chaos reeled off four straight wins Sunday, to finish a perfect 7-0 on the weekend, and capture the 2nd Annual Cal Cup tournament, at Palm Springs, Sunday, including a 6-1 championship game win over the So Cal Hustlers. Chaos ousted Sun Fastpitch in the semi-finals while the Hustlers reached the title game with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,6,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634"}],"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=634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}