{"id":27207,"date":"2015-06-10T14:49:52","date_gmt":"2015-06-10T21:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=27207"},"modified":"2015-06-10T14:49:52","modified_gmt":"2015-06-10T21:49:52","slug":"kitchener-twins-cut-back-on-schedule-to-allow-for-pan-ams-and-worlds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=27207","title":{"rendered":"Kitchener  Twins cut back on schedule to allow for Pan Ams and worlds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.therecord.com\/sports-story\/5669263-twins-cut-back-on-schedule-to-allow-for-pan-ams-and-worlds\/\" target=\"_blank\">From the Waterloo Region Record<\/a><br \/>\n<em>By Christine Rivet<\/em><\/p>\n<p>KITCHENER \u2014 Local senior men&#8217;s fastball will take a seat in the dugout in favour of the International Softball Federation&#8217;s world championship and the Pan Am Games this summer.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament-only Kitchener Hallman Twins will play ball, but with a truncated schedule \u2014 only four event appearances \u2014 and not much in the way of local games to accommodate this summer&#8217;s marquee events.<\/p>\n<p>The Twins have two players \u2014 infielder Brandon Horn and outfielder Ryan Wolfe \u2014 set to join Team Canada for the ISF worlds in Saskatoon June 26 to July 5.<\/p>\n<p>Canada&#8217;s roster for the Pan Am Games \u2014 softball competition runs July 12-18 in Ajax \u2014 will at least include Horn, although the final lineup has not yet been released.<\/p>\n<p>The Twins won&#8217;t hold their own tournament this year due to the crammed summer schedule.<\/p>\n<p>The club surrendered its usual home tournament date \u2014 the third weekend in June \u2014 to organizers in Tavistock who rely on their event as a fundraiser for their local ball association, said Twins sponsor Jim Hallman.<\/p>\n<p>The regular date for the Tavistock tourney \u2014 in mid July \u2014 would have fallen right in the middle of the Pan Ams, resulting in many of the world&#8217;s top players not being available.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have every intention of returning next year,&#8221; he said of Kitchener&#8217;s Peter Hallman Memorial.<\/p>\n<p>And so this year&#8217;s version of the Cephas Roth, a 15-team tourney in Tavistock, goes June 18-21.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.therecord.com\/sports-story\/5669263-twins-cut-back-on-schedule-to-allow-for-pan-ams-and-worlds\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to read the entire story at the Waterloo Region Record.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Waterloo Region Record By Christine Rivet KITCHENER \u2014 Local senior men&#8217;s fastball will take a seat in the dugout in favour of the International Softball Federation&#8217;s world championship and the Pan Am Games this summer. The tournament-only Kitchener Hallman Twins will play ball, but with a truncated schedule \u2014 only four event appearances [&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":[5,21,23],"tags":[280,279,278],"class_list":{"0":"post-27207","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-canada","7":"category-teams","8":"category-tournaments","9":"tag-cephasroth","10":"tag-hallmantwins","11":"tag-kitchener","12":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27207","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=27207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27208,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27207\/revisions\/27208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}