{"id":23655,"date":"2014-06-30T15:03:16","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T22:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=23655"},"modified":"2014-06-30T15:03:16","modified_gmt":"2014-06-30T22:03:16","slug":"toronto-gators-too-much-for-jarvis-js","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=23655","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Gators too much for Jarvis J&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Monte Sonnenberg,<\/em><\/p>\n<p>JARVIS  &#8211; The Jarvis J\u2019s gave a good accounting of themselves at an intermediate men\u2019s fastball tournament in Jarvis over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The J\u2019s compete in the Erie Men\u2019s Fastball League and didn\u2019t even expect to participate in the three-day North American Fastball Challenge. However, they were asked to fill in at the last minute when Argentina\u2019s national junior squad was unable to follow through on its commitment to attend.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament was a struggle for the J\u2019s, who needed come-from-behind wins over Cobourg and Ohsweken to advance to Sunday\u2019s winner-take-all final against the Toronto Gators.<\/p>\n<p>J\u2019s coach Jeff McCarthy was pleased with the result given the skill level of the competing teams. The J\u2019s are one of the better teams in the Erie league but they didn\u2019t expect to make it as far as they did.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Gators were the world champions in 1993 and 1995,\u201d McCarthy said. \u201cThey\u2019re a little older than us. Half their team is young, the other half is older and more experienced.\u201d  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?rct=j&#038;sa=t&#038;url=http:\/\/www.simcoereformer.ca\/2014\/06\/29\/toronto-gators-too-much-for-jarvis-js&#038;ct=ga&#038;cd=CAEYACoSOTg5MTYxMTgxMDU5NjQ4NTI1MhowYmRhYTRlM2Q4ZDA1NWYxOmNvbTplbjpVUw&#038;usg=AFQjCNHPBDxULqnP0gKC9T1vZejtcs8m7w\">Click here to read the complete story at the  Simcoe Reformer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Monte Sonnenberg, JARVIS &#8211; The Jarvis J\u2019s gave a good accounting of themselves at an intermediate men\u2019s fastball tournament in Jarvis over the weekend. The J\u2019s compete in the Erie Men\u2019s Fastball League and didn\u2019t even expect to participate in the three-day North American Fastball Challenge. However, they were asked to fill in at [&hellip;]<\/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":[5,10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23655","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-canada","7":"category-isc","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23655","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=23655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23656,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23655\/revisions\/23656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}