{"id":14983,"date":"2011-10-10T10:44:31","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T17:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=14983"},"modified":"2011-10-15T11:07:03","modified_gmt":"2011-10-15T18:07:03","slug":"11-year-old-shows-how-its-done-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=14983","title":{"rendered":"11 year old shows how it&#8217;s done in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_14984\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14984\" style=\"width: 142px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.maitlandmercury.com.au\/news\/local\/sport\/softball\/pitching-for-state\/2318965.aspx\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/MaitlandMercury001.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"MaitlandMercury001\" width=\"142\" height=\"63\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14984\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14984\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click for complete news story and photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure><em>By JOSH CALLINAN<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.maitlandmercury.com.au\/news\/local\/sport\/softball\/pitching-for-state\/2318965.aspx\">From the Maitland Mercury<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nCameron Henderson simply loves pitching. Fast balls, curve balls, drop balls, the change up and even a knuckle ball \u2013 not a bad lot to have in the kit bag for an 11-year-old.<\/p>\n<p>This variety on the mound combined with a packet of stellar performances has seen Henderson selected in the NSW Primary School Sports Association (PSSA) softball team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was shocked,\u201d Henderson said after hearing his name read out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I was excited to make the team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The year 6 student from Thornton Public School was picked in the NSW PSSA squad following the state championships at Woolooware late last month.<\/p>\n<p>Contesting his first state titles in the school system, Henderson pitched in each one of Hunter\u2019s matches and the team conceded just eight runs across three days of competition.<\/p>\n<p>Hunter went down in the first two games on day one but struck back with a vengeance, remaining undefeated for the rest of the tournament.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maitlandmercury.com.au\/news\/local\/sport\/softball\/pitching-for-state\/2318965.aspx\">Click here to continue reading<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Editor&#8217;s note:  <\/strong> And we in the USA wonder where those pitchers come from&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By JOSH CALLINAN From the Maitland Mercury Cameron Henderson simply loves pitching. Fast balls, curve balls, drop balls, the change up and even a knuckle ball \u2013 not a bad lot to have in the kit bag for an 11-year-old. This variety on the mound combined with a packet of stellar performances has seen Henderson [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14984,"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":[35,19,27],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14983","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oceania","8":"category-players","9":"category-youth","10":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14983","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=14983"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15045,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14983\/revisions\/15045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}