{"id":26069,"date":"2015-05-03T15:06:23","date_gmt":"2015-05-03T22:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=26069"},"modified":"2015-05-03T21:56:57","modified_gmt":"2015-05-04T04:56:57","slug":"saskatoon-opens-its-2015-softball-season-with-51-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=26069","title":{"rendered":"Saskatoon opens its 2015 softball season with 51 teams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_26070\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26070\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saskatoonamateursoftball.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/image001-300x166.jpg\" alt=\"Click photo to view official Saskatoon Amateur Softball Association website\" width=\"300\" height=\"166\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-26070\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/image001-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/image001-360x200.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/image001.jpg 453w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-26070\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bob Van Impe Stadium in Saskatoon SK (click photo to view official Saskatoon Amateur Softball Association website<\/figcaption><\/figure>The Saskatoon Amateur Softball Association is proud to announce the opening of it\u2019s 51st season. The first pitch will take place today at 1:00 at Bob Van Impe Stadium when the Saskatoon Pirates will take on the Flaman Kodiaks in Bob Van Impe Division play. This will be followed by games at 3, 5 and 7 PM.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The SASA is the largest adult Fastpitch Softball league in the country<\/strong> and will feature 51 teams in 3 ladies and 3 men\u2019s\u2019 divisions. The quality of play will be better than ever as it includes a number of national team and former national team players playing in the Keith McLean and Bob Stayner divisions.<\/p>\n<p>You can follow the league results on our league website at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saskatoonamateursoftball.com\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.saskatoonamateursoftball.com<\/a><br \/>\nFor more detailed information please see the attached media guide<\/p>\n<p>Thanks<br \/>\nMark Loehndorf<br \/>\nCommincations Manager<br \/>\n2015 WBSC Men\u2019s Softball World Championship<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.2015isfmensworldsoftball.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.2015isfmensworldsoftball.ca\/<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/2015ISFmensworlds\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/2015ISFmensworlds<\/a><br \/>\n@ISFMens2015<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<strong>Editor&#8217;s note:<\/strong> Bob Van Impe Stadium in Saskatoon SK will be the site of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=25721\" target=\"_blank\">2015 WBSC Men&#8217;s World Championship<\/a>, July 26-July 5.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Saskatoon Amateur Softball Association is proud to announce the opening of it\u2019s 51st season. The first pitch will take place today at 1:00 at Bob Van Impe Stadium when the Saskatoon Pirates will take on the Flaman Kodiaks in Bob Van Impe Division play. This will be followed by games at 3, 5 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26070,"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":[5,28,13],"tags":[128,72],"class_list":{"0":"post-26069","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"category-featured","9":"category-leagues","10":"tag-sasa","11":"tag-saskatoon","12":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26069","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=26069"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26074,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26069\/revisions\/26074"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}