{"id":13514,"date":"2011-08-05T11:42:49","date_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=13514"},"modified":"2011-08-05T11:43:13","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:43:13","slug":"arsenault-makes-it-to-the-big-leagues-of-softball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=13514","title":{"rendered":"Arsenault makes it to the big leagues of softball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ups and downs<\/strong><figure id=\"attachment_7601\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7601\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.journalpioneer.com\/Sports\/2011-08-04\/article-2692572\/Arsenault-makes-it-to-the-big-leagues-of-softball\/1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Journal-Pioneer.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Journal Pioneer\" width=\"300\" height=\"60\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7601\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7601\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click logo for original news story.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>CHARLOTTETOWN &#8211; For Mark Arsenault, playing in a ball tournament last weekend in Erie, Pa., was almost like being a rookie again.<\/p>\n<p>He suited up with the Midland Explorers from Michigan in the Erie Classic &#8211; his first-ever International Softball Congress (ISC) tournament experience.  The tournament was a bit of an eye-opener for the Charlottetown resident and veteran member of the Charlottetown Fawcetts&#8217; ball club.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When it boils down, the games are a little bit faster and the talent is deeper, but it&#8217;s the same rules,&#8221; said Arsenault, who caught for the Explorers in three of their five tournament games and was their designated hitter in another game. He drove a home run over the left-field fence in one of the games.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was a good tournament,&#8221; he assessed. &#8220;I had my ups and downs.&#8221;<br \/>\nArsenault made a strong enough impression that he will be the team&#8217;s catcher for their two biggest weekends of the year &#8211; the Amateur Softball Association of America (ASA) American nationals this weekend in South Bend, Ind., and the ISC world tournament in Quad Cities from Aug. 14 to 20. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.journalpioneer.com\/Sports\/2011-08-04\/article-2692572\/Arsenault-makes-it-to-the-big-leagues-of-softball\/1\"> Click here for the complete story.<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ups and downs CHARLOTTETOWN &#8211; For Mark Arsenault, playing in a ball tournament last weekend in Erie, Pa., was almost like being a rookie again. He suited up with the Midland Explorers from Michigan in the Erie Classic &#8211; his first-ever International Softball Congress (ISC) tournament experience. The tournament was a bit of an eye-opener [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13514","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-isc","8":"category-players","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13514"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13516,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13514\/revisions\/13516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}