Many soccer fans are glued to their television screens, enraptured by the global extravaganza that is the World Cup.<\/p>\n
But if you want to witness an intense international competition first-hand, circle Tuesday on your calendar. That\u2019s the day Argentina\u2019s senior men\u2019s fastball team will be in our region to clash with the Vasey Selects in a dynamic doubleheader featuring some of the globe\u2019s top fastball players.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt will be a great event. I hope lots of kids make it out to the park to enjoy it (because it) will be very entertaining action for those who are familiar (with) fastball and those who are not,\u201d said Vasey pitching ace Grant Patterson.<\/p>\n
The former Team Canada star said his Vasey Selects \u2014 a team of local fastball stalwarts, many of whom have competed at International Softball Congress competitions \u2014 will have their hands full.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Argentina lineup has a ton of speed and power and will be exciting to play against and watch,\u201d said Patterson.<\/p>\n
Last year, at the 2013 International Softball Federation world championship, the Argentinian national team finished fourth \u2014 one spot ahead of Canada. The visiting squad features two of the world\u2019s top-10 fast-pitch hurlers in Lucas Mata and Juan Potolicchio. Click here to continue reading at the Orillia Packet<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Many soccer fans are glued to their television screens, enraptured by the global extravaganza that is the World Cup. But if you want to witness an intense international competition first-hand, circle Tuesday on your calendar. That\u2019s the day Argentina\u2019s senior men\u2019s fastball team will be in our region to clash with the Vasey Selects in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23539","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-canada","7":"category-international","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23539","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=23539"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23541,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23539\/revisions\/23541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}