{"id":25211,"date":"2015-01-15T08:36:10","date_gmt":"2015-01-15T16:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=25211"},"modified":"2015-01-15T08:55:26","modified_gmt":"2015-01-15T16:55:26","slug":"new-san-diego-independent-fastpitch-league-poway-ca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=25211","title":{"rendered":"New San Diego Independent Fastpitch League – Poway, CA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Editor’s note:<\/strong> Thanks to the efforts of Jay Crawley, San Diego has a new fastpitch league.<\/p>\n

From the Pomerado News:<\/a>

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New fastpitch softball league in Poway open to men<\/strong>
\nGames will be played at the Poway Sportsplex
\nBy Michael Bower<\/em><\/p>\n

There was nothing Jay Crawley could do. The men\u2019s fastpitch softball league he was part of in downtown San Diego in 2008 dwindled to three teams and eventually became extinct.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe city wouldn\u2019t do it with three teams,\u201d said the 44-year-old Crawley, who added that to his knowledge it was the last men\u2019s fastpitch softball league in the area. \u201cBasically, they said they are going to give it to slow pitch and they never gave it back because they can do four games in the time we can do two.\u201d<\/p>\n

So, Crawley, who moved to Rancho Bernardo in 2000 and has been playing in men\u2019s fastpitch softball leagues since he was 16, traveled nearly every week to the Los Angeles area to play in the Southern California Independent FastPitch League.<\/p>\n

But now, seven years after the league in downtown San Diego distinguished, Crawley is trying to put a sustainable league back together in the county. And he is doing it at the Poway Sportsplex.<\/p>\n

A four-team recreation league, dubbed \u201cSan Diego Independent FastPitch League,\u201d was formed by Crawley and had its opening day Dec. 19. The six-week season will be ending in February and a new season is scheduled to start on Feb. 27.<\/p>\n

Crawley is hoping to spark interest in the area and eventually expand the league and create divisions based on competitiveness. But right now he just wants to educate people about fastpitch softball (the game follows nearly all the rules of baseball, but is played on a softball diamond with underhand pitching).<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the biggest thing is that a lot of people just don\u2019t know that men\u2019s fastpitch softball exists,\u201d Crawley said. \u201cOur main purpose is to educate, inform, and develop men\u2019s fastpitch in the San Diego area and all of Southern California.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Despite advertising it as a men\u2019s fastpitch league, women can also join. The age requirement is 16 years and up (must have parental permission if 16 or 17). Those who wish to register a whole team or as an individual for the upcoming season in February can do so by contacting Crawley at jcrawley07@sbcglobal.net.
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Editor’s note: Thanks to the efforts of Jay Crawley, San Diego has a new fastpitch league. From the Pomerado News: New fastpitch softball league in Poway open to men Games will be played at the Poway Sportsplex By Michael Bower There was nothing Jay Crawley could do. The men\u2019s fastpitch softball league he was part […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25212,"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":[13,20],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25211","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leagues","8":"category-so-cal","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25211","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=25211"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25218,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25211\/revisions\/25218"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}