{"id":25014,"date":"2014-12-15T15:51:50","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T23:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=25014"},"modified":"2014-12-17T11:57:12","modified_gmt":"2014-12-17T19:57:12","slug":"australia-beat-new-zealand-black-sox-in-oceania-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=25014","title":{"rendered":"Australia beats New Zealand Black Sox in Oceania final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Oceania-Qualifier-2014.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Oceania-Qualifier-2014-300x145.jpg\" alt=\"Oceania Qualifier 2014\" width=\"300\" height=\"145\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-25004\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Oceania-Qualifier-2014-300x145.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Oceania-Qualifier-2014.jpg 353w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/home.nzcity.co.nz\/news\/article.aspx?id=198669\">From NZ City:<br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\nAustralia&#8217;s beefed-up pitching proved the difference in a 1-0 win over New Zealand in the Oceania men&#8217;s softball championship final.<\/p>\n<p>Australia wheeled out their big pitching weapons to telling effect to beat New Zealand 1-0 in the final of the Oceania men&#8217;s softball championship.<\/p>\n<p>After dominating the round-robin phase in Auckland, the world champion Black Sox batters failed to fire in Saturday&#8217;s final.<\/p>\n<p>They struggled against Adam Folkard and Andrew Kirkpatrick, who deliberately hadn&#8217;t been used when the teams met twice in the leadup &#8211; games won 6-0 and 9-5 by New Zealand.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/home.nzcity.co.nz\/news\/article.aspx?id=198669\"><br \/>\nClick here to read the entire story at NZ City.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From NZ City: Australia&#8217;s beefed-up pitching proved the difference in a 1-0 win over New Zealand in the Oceania men&#8217;s softball championship final. Australia wheeled out their big pitching weapons to telling effect to beat New Zealand 1-0 in the final of the Oceania men&#8217;s softball championship. After dominating the round-robin phase in Auckland, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25004,"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":[9,12,35,23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25014","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-international","8":"category-isf","9":"category-oceania","10":"category-tournaments","11":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25014","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=25014"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25026,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25014\/revisions\/25026"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}