{"id":23787,"date":"2014-07-05T19:13:07","date_gmt":"2014-07-06T02:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=23787"},"modified":"2014-07-05T19:14:16","modified_gmt":"2014-07-06T02:14:16","slug":"road-to-whitehorse-tour-continues-for-usa-softball-junior-mens-national-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=23787","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Road to Whitehorse&#8221; tour continues for USA Softball Junior Men&#8217;s National Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_22354\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22354\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamusa.org\/USA-Softball.aspx\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Team_USA-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"Click logo for official USA Softball website.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-22354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Team_USA-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Team_USA-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Team_USA-200x200.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Team_USA.jpeg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22354\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click logo for official USA Softball website.<\/figcaption><\/figure><em>Information courtesy of Steve Embree, USA Softball<\/em><\/p>\n<p>OKLAHOMA CITY \u2014 With four of the five stops in the books the USA Softball Junior Men\u2019s National Team will play a doubleheader at Dacca Park in Fife, Washington in their final event of the \u201cRoad to Whitehorse\u201d tour on July 6th the Amateur Softball Association (ASA)\/USA Softball announced today. Following the games in Fife, the USA Men will travel to Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada to begin preparations for the International Softball Federation (ISF) World Championships.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamusa.org\/USA-Softball\/Team-USA\/Junior-Men\"><br \/>\nClick here for box scores and recaps from the \u201cRoad to Whitehorse\u201d tour<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These five tour stops have been tremendous in helping our group come together as a team,&#8221; said head coach Tim Lyon.  &#8220;We have had the opportunity to put our guys in different on-the-field situations that they will most likely see in Whitehorse and that can\u2019t do anything but help us be more prepared as we compete in the World Championship. We really appreciate the ASA\/USA hosts who have done so much for us over the past week.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The USA Junior Men will begin ISF World Championship when they take on Denmark on July 11 at 7:30 PM (PST). They will compete in a round robin format through July 18th before starting the playoff portion of the tournament on July 19th. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamusa.org\/USA-Softball\/Events\/2014\/July\/11\/2014-ISF-Junior-Mens-World-Championship\">Click here to follow all of the ISF World Championship action.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>A complete team roster, including coaches, can be found here. Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.USASoftball.com\">www.USASoftball.com<\/a> throughout the summer and leading up to and during the 10th ISF Junior Men\u2019s World Championship for the tournament schedule and any additional updates and announcements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Information courtesy of Steve Embree, USA Softball OKLAHOMA CITY \u2014 With four of the five stops in the books the USA Softball Junior Men\u2019s National Team will play a doubleheader at Dacca Park in Fife, Washington in their final event of the \u201cRoad to Whitehorse\u201d tour on July 6th the Amateur Softball Association (ASA)\/USA Softball [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22354,"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":[3,12,21,23,27],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23787","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-asa","8":"category-isf","9":"category-teams","10":"category-tournaments","11":"category-youth","12":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23787","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=23787"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23790,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23787\/revisions\/23790"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}