{"id":731,"date":"2006-01-15T21:11:01","date_gmt":"2006-01-16T05:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=731"},"modified":"2006-01-16T16:17:26","modified_gmt":"2006-01-17T00:17:26","slug":"florida-fastpitch-with-z-man-and-jamie-simpson-at-aau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=731","title":{"rendered":"Florida Fastpitch with Z-man and Jamie Simpson at AAU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The following is one in a series of team profiles for the AAU Tournament, January 19-22, 2006:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/images2\/aau_usa.jpg\" alt=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/images2\/aau_usa.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nSteve Thurmer will follow his Florida Fastpitch team&#8217;s strong showing in 2005 with a pitching staff of Darren Zack and Jamie Simpson and the hitting of Michael Brown and Boomer Brush.  Dr. Larry Mastrogianakos is once again behind the scenes for this squad.<\/p>\n<p>In last year&#8217;s tournament, Florida Fastpitch finished in the &#8220;Elite Eight&#8221;, knocking off the Hallman Twins from Canada, in a 12-9 slugfest, before falling to eventual 3rd place finisher, Mexicali, 2-0, just missing a spot in the Final Four.   Skipper Steve Thurmer guided the Heflin-St. Louis team last year, which held a spot in ISC Ranking&#8217;s Top 10 all year long.<\/p>\n<p>Their roster:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nMike Pullin<br \/>\nSteve Runnings<br \/>\nChris White<br \/>\nTommie Gray<br \/>\nMichael Brown<br \/>\nBrad Johnson<br \/>\nSteve Mitchell<br \/>\nPaul Lynch<br \/>\nWayne Bryan<br \/>\nBoomer Brush<br \/>\nDarren Zack<br \/>\nJamie Simpson<br \/>\nLarry Mastrogianakis<br \/>\nChad Edwards<br \/>\nJody Summerlin<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is one in a series of team profiles for the AAU Tournament, January 19-22, 2006: Steve Thurmer will follow his Florida Fastpitch team&#8217;s strong showing in 2005 with a pitching staff of Darren Zack and Jamie Simpson and the hitting of Michael Brown and Boomer Brush. Dr. Larry Mastrogianakos is once again behind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731"}],"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=731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}