{"id":14509,"date":"2011-09-13T14:46:21","date_gmt":"2011-09-13T21:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=14509"},"modified":"2011-09-13T14:46:21","modified_gmt":"2011-09-13T21:46:21","slug":"shakespeare-on-falcons-swoop-down-on-all-takers-to-win-spmfl-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=14509","title":{"rendered":"Shakespeare ON Falcons swoop down on all takers to win SPMFL title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_13646\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13646\" style=\"width: 288px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"Falcons swoop down on all takers to win SPMFL title\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/mitchell-advocate.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"mitchell advocate\" width=\"288\" height=\"64\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13646\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13646\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click logo for complete story.<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n<em>By Andy Bader<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Shakespeare Falcons used balanced offense and some outstanding pitching by ace Fred Follings to capture their first-ever South Perth Men&#8217;s Fastball League championship this past weekend in Mitchell.<\/p>\n<p>The sixth-seed during the regular season in the 12-team league, the Falcons won by mercy rule their three opening games over Linwood, regular season pennant-winners Wellington and the Kitchener Cubs. In the undefeated game Sunday morning, the Falcons took advantage of some early sloppy play by the defending league champs from Elmira and won 4-1 to give them a berth in the final where they would have to be beat twice in the double-knockout tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Wellington rallied up the loser&#8217;s bracket to advance to the final, with ace Todd Uhrig pitching despite a nagging foot injury, challenging Follings pitch by pitch. The clubs were deadlocked 1-1 after six before the Falcons scored two runs in the top of the seventh, the key blow an RBI-triple by Rob Faulhafer, to win 3-1 Reliever Luke Raymer shut the door the final two innings for the win, but Follings was recognized for his efficiency in being named the tournament top pitcher.<\/p>\n<p>The balanced offense was led by second baseman Jamie Wicke, who was red-hot all weekend.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mitchelladvocate.com\/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3297078\">Click here to continue reading.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Andy Bader The Shakespeare Falcons used balanced offense and some outstanding pitching by ace Fred Follings to capture their first-ever South Perth Men&#8217;s Fastball League championship this past weekend in Mitchell. The sixth-seed during the regular season in the 12-team league, the Falcons won by mercy rule their three opening games over Linwood, regular [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13646,"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":[5,13],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14509","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"category-leagues","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14509","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=14509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14510,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14509\/revisions\/14510"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}