{"id":18943,"date":"2012-11-07T11:48:05","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T19:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=18943"},"modified":"2012-11-07T11:52:49","modified_gmt":"2012-11-07T19:52:49","slug":"top-8-teams-set-for-playoffs-in-2012-isf-jr-mens-world-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=18943","title":{"rendered":"Top 8 teams set for playoffs in 2012 ISF Jr. Men&#8217;s World Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/9JuniorWorld-sinfondo-256x300-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/9JuniorWorld-sinfondo-256x300-1-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"9JuniorWorld-sinfondo-256x300 (1)\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-18790\" \/><\/a>The eight playoff teams have been determined, following Denmark&#8217;s 12-0 win over India this morning, on the final day of pool play in the 2012 ISF Jr. Men&#8217;s World Championship at Parana, Argentina.<\/p>\n<p>Teams qualifying for playoff round:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pool A<\/strong><br \/>\n1\/2. AUS\/USA (both 5-0, playing each other tonight at 8:30pm)<br \/>\n3. NZL (3-2, last game today vs. Singapor)<br \/>\n4. DEN (2-4, head to head winner over Venezuela)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pool B<\/strong><br \/>\n1. ARG (6-0)<br \/>\n2. JPN (5-1)<br \/>\n3\/4. CAN\/MEX (both 3-2, playing each other tonight at 6pm)<\/p>\n<p>The all-important seeding is still up in the air, and will be determined by the two nightcap games Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The 6pm game between Canada (3-2) and Mexico (3-2) will send the winner to an opening round game vs. Denmark (2-4), while the loser draws New Zealand.   Denmark is the only country advancing to the playoffs with a losing record.  New Zealand finished third in Pool A, but took the world champion Aussies to extra innings and lost by a single run to unbeaten USA.<\/p>\n<p>The 8:30pm game between Australia and the USA will determine the top spot in Pool A, with the loser facing unbeaten host Argentina, while the winner draws Japan.<\/p>\n<p>The playoff format is has 4 teams from each of the two pools squaring off:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A3 v. B4<br \/>\nB3 v. A4<br \/>\nA1 v. B2<br \/>\nA2 v. B1<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The eight playoff teams have been determined, following Denmark&#8217;s 12-0 win over India this morning, on the final day of pool play in the 2012 ISF Jr. Men&#8217;s World Championship at Parana, Argentina. Teams qualifying for playoff round: Pool A 1\/2. AUS\/USA (both 5-0, playing each other tonight at 8:30pm) 3. NZL (3-2, last game [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18790,"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":[12,38,23,27],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18943","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-isf","8":"category-latinamerica","9":"category-tournaments","10":"category-youth","11":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18943","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=18943"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18949,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18943\/revisions\/18949"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}