{"id":688,"date":"2005-12-11T13:29:11","date_gmt":"2005-12-11T21:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=688"},"modified":"2005-12-11T14:14:40","modified_gmt":"2005-12-11T22:14:40","slug":"a-1-tankmavericks-merger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=688","title":{"rendered":"A-1 Tank \/ Nor Cal Mavericks Merger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sledgehammer22 has broken another piece of big news at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/forum\/viewtopic.php?t=423&#038;start=165\">2006 Rumor Central<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>News Break!!! Fresh off the phone with Chris Wright of the Nor Cal Mavericks. The Mavericks have announced a merger between them and A-1 Tank. The deal was said to be done last week and the details have been ironed out. The team will take on the A-1 Tank name and compete at the ISC II level. Wright, who will have the duties of General Manager and Field Manager, says the merger is a two year deal with options after the first year. The merger instantly makes the northern California based team a serious player at the &#8220;B&#8221; level and ISCII level. When asked about the deal, Wright added, &#8220;It&#8217;s tough to watch my Mavericks team name go but this could turn out to be a great thing for Nor Cal fastpitch. I&#8217;m excited for the season to start.&#8221; The Mavericks look to compete in Red Rock, Portland and a travel league in preparation for the ISC II Tournament of Champions.  Details of the roster will be released later this month. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The merger positions the team to compete with another new California ISC II team being formed, for a bid to compete in the ISC II Tournament of Champions in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada in August.<\/p>\n<p>Sledgehammer22&#8217;s &#8220;2006 Rumor Central&#8221; has nearly 10,000 page views in barely a month&#8217;s time &#8212; almost as many as all of 2005.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/forum\/viewtopic.php?t=423&#038;start=165\">Click here to catch the latest.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sledgehammer22 has broken another piece of big news at the 2006 Rumor Central: News Break!!! Fresh off the phone with Chris Wright of the Nor Cal Mavericks. The Mavericks have announced a merger between them and A-1 Tank. The deal was said to be done last week and the details have been ironed out. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,15,6,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688"}],"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=688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}