{"id":25018,"date":"2014-12-15T16:05:37","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T00:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=25018"},"modified":"2014-12-15T16:05:37","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T00:05:37","slug":"new-zealand-black-sox-qualify-for-2015-isf-world-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=25018","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand  Black Sox qualify for 2015 ISF World Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.odt.co.nz\/sport\/other-sport\/327150\/softball-black-sox-qualify-worlds\">From the Otago Daily Times<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Black Sox strolled to qualification for next year&#8217;s world championships in Canada, giving them a chance to claim back-to-back titles.<\/p>\n<p>The Sox earned their spot after a convincing overall display in the Oceania Softball Series at Albany&#8217;s Rosedale Park, despite narrowly losing last night&#8217;s series final to Australia 1-0.<\/p>\n<p>The series functioned as a three-way playoff between New Zealand, Australia and Samoa for the two available Oceania places.<\/p>\n<p>It started in inauspicious fashion for the Kiwis, losing veteran pitcher Jeremy Manley to injury before proceedings got under way. But the setback didn&#8217;t bother them, with Bayley Pearson-Hoani, Nik Hayes, Heinrick Shannon and Kurt Schollum stepping out of the bullpen to pick up the slack.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.odt.co.nz\/sport\/other-sport\/327150\/softball-black-sox-qualify-worlds\"><br \/>\nClick here to read the complete story and view photo.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Otago Daily Times The Black Sox strolled to qualification for next year&#8217;s world championships in Canada, giving them a chance to claim back-to-back titles. The Sox earned their spot after a convincing overall display in the Oceania Softball Series at Albany&#8217;s Rosedale Park, despite narrowly losing last night&#8217;s series final to Australia 1-0. [&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":[9,12,35,23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25018","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-international","7":"category-isf","8":"category-oceania","9":"category-tournaments","10":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25018","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=25018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25019,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25018\/revisions\/25019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}