{"id":21539,"date":"2013-07-20T08:44:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-20T15:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=21539"},"modified":"2013-07-20T11:17:10","modified_gmt":"2013-07-20T18:17:10","slug":"top-mens-softball-teams-gather-in-elkland-for-fastpitch-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=21539","title":{"rendered":"Top men&#8217;s softball teams gather in Elkland for fastpitch tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_21540\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21540\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stargazette.com\/article\/20130718\/SPORTS\/307180057\/Top-men-s-softball-teams-gather-Elkland-fastpitch-tournament?nclick_check=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/ElklandSoftballAssociation1-300x132.jpg\" alt=\"Click photo for original news story at the Star Gazette.(click photo to enlarge)\" width=\"300\" height=\"132\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-21540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/ElklandSoftballAssociation1-300x132.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/ElklandSoftballAssociation1.jpg 607w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-21540\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click photo for original news story at the Star Gazette.<\/figcaption><\/figure>ELKLAND, PA. \u2014 The Elkland Softball Association Thunderbellies will host some of the nation\u2019s top men\u2019s fastpitch softball teams at a tournament this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The event will be played at the Durk Sherman Memorial Complex on Saturday and Sunday. There will be six to eight games Saturday, starting at 8 a.m. Another six to eight games will be played Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Admission is $5, with free admission for children under 12.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament is sponsored by the N.Y. Gremlins and the Pennsylvania Power.<\/p>\n<p>The Gremlins, from Clifton Park, finished first in the final 2013 International Softball Congress rankings.<\/p>\n<p>Other teams scheduled to compete are the second-ranked Hallman Twins of Jarvis, Ontario; the fourth-ranked Pennsylvania Power of Harrisburg; and the 10th-ranked Circle Tap Dukes of Kimberly, Wis. The ESA Thunderbellies and Bar on the Avenue, from Appleton, Wis., are also in the field.<\/p>\n<p>Players in the tournament hail from all over the world, including the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Cuba, New Zealand, Australia and Canada.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, <a href=\"http:\/\/elklandsoftball.sharepoint.com\/Pages\/default.aspx\">click here to visit the Elkand website.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ELKLAND, PA. \u2014 The Elkland Softball Association Thunderbellies will host some of the nation\u2019s top men\u2019s fastpitch softball teams at a tournament this weekend. The event will be played at the Durk Sherman Memorial Complex on Saturday and Sunday. There will be six to eight games Saturday, starting at 8 a.m. Another six to eight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21540,"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":[28,10,23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21539","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured","8":"category-isc","9":"category-tournaments","10":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21539","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=21539"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21595,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21539\/revisions\/21595"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}