{"id":15493,"date":"2011-11-07T07:35:28","date_gmt":"2011-11-07T15:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=15493"},"modified":"2011-11-07T07:35:28","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T15:35:28","slug":"skipper-lii-shin-pitching-for-a-bronze-medal-malaysia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=15493","title":{"rendered":"Skipper Lii Shin pitching for a bronze medal (Malaysia)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_15495\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15495\" style=\"width: 120px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thestar.com.my\/sports\/story.asp?file=\/2011\/11\/7\/sports\/9853349&amp;sec=sports\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/the-star-malaysia.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"the star malaysia\" width=\"120\" height=\"56\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15495\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15495\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click to read the complete story.<\/figcaption><\/figure><em>By KNG ZHENG GUAN<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nPETALING JAYA: Veteran pitcher Liong Lii Shin is out to make amends in the Indonesia SEA Games which starts this week.<\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old men\u2019s softball team captain was in the squad for the 2007 Korat Games but they returned home empty handed.<\/p>\n<p>Malaysia won a bronze in Manila back in 2005 but Lii Shin was not part of the team then.<\/p>\n<p>This time, Lii Shin, who is a software engineer by trade, is hoping for better fortunes and bring home at least a bronze from Palembang.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was disappointing not getting anything the last time out but this time we are all fired up to get a bronze,\u201d said Lii Shin who has been playing softball for the past 15 years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe team are in good spirits and training hard and we believe that we\u2019ll be able to spring a surprise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Softball was not included in the 2009 Laos Games and Malaysia will be sending a relatively young squad this time.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the players are aged between 20-22 and it will be a first exposure for them against the traditional powerhouses such as Philippines, Thailand and hosts Indonesia.<\/p>\n<p>While the men are out to set things straight, their female counterparts will be competing in the SEA Games for the first time since 1997.  <a href=\"http:\/\/thestar.com.my\/sports\/story.asp?file=\/2011\/11\/7\/sports\/9853349&#038;sec=sports\">Click here to continue reading.<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By KNG ZHENG GUAN PETALING JAYA: Veteran pitcher Liong Lii Shin is out to make amends in the Indonesia SEA Games which starts this week. The 32-year-old men\u2019s softball team captain was in the squad for the 2007 Korat Games but they returned home empty handed. Malaysia won a bronze in Manila back in 2005 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15495,"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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15493","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-international","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15493","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=15493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15496,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15493\/revisions\/15496"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}