{"id":28070,"date":"2015-07-19T15:01:48","date_gmt":"2015-07-19T22:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=28070"},"modified":"2015-07-19T15:10:50","modified_gmt":"2015-07-19T22:10:50","slug":"stouffville-pitchers-proud-to-put-canada-back-on-top-of-softball-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=28070","title":{"rendered":"Stouffville pitchers proud to put Canada back on top of softball world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yorkregion.com\/pan-am-games-story\/5741133-stouffville-pitchers-proud-to-put-canada-back-on-top-of-softball-world-\/\" target=\"_blank\">From the Stouffville Sun-Tribune <\/a><strong><br \/>\nNational team veteran Koert retiring after golden summer <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Stouffville Sun-Tribune<br \/>\nBy Michael Hayakawa <\/em><\/p>\n<p>There are not many people who can lay claim to winning a softball world championship and Pan American Games gold medal in the same year.<\/p>\n<p>To be more precise, within weeks of each other.<\/p>\n<p>But Paul Koert, 36, and Andy Skelton, 28, can proudly proclaim they were a part of that select group.<\/p>\n<p>The two Stouffville residents played vital roles in helping Canada capture the WBSC Men\u2019s World Softball Championship title in Saskatoon earlier this month and the Pan American Games gold medal.<\/p>\n<p>They went undefeated during the Pan Ams that culminated with a dramatic 2-1 win over Venezuela in the final before a jam-packed pro-Canadian crowd on a hot, sultry Saturday afternoon at the President\u2019s Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"pullquote\">\u201cIt\u2019s pretty awesome, it\u2019s amazing,\u201d said Skelton, who saw duty as a designated hitter and pitcher, recording two of Canada\u2019s wins on the rubber. \u201cNow Canada is back on top of the softball world.\u201d <\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yorkregion.com\/pan-am-games-story\/5741133-stouffville-pitchers-proud-to-put-canada-back-on-top-of-softball-world-\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to continue reading at the Stouffville Sun-Tribune \/ YorkRegion.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Stouffville Sun-Tribune National team veteran Koert retiring after golden summer Stouffville Sun-Tribune By Michael Hayakawa There are not many people who can lay claim to winning a softball world championship and Pan American Games gold medal in the same year. To be more precise, within weeks of each other. But Paul Koert, 36, [&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":[5,9,23],"tags":[126,323,193,329],"class_list":{"0":"post-28070","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-canada","7":"category-international","8":"category-tournaments","9":"tag-panams2015","10":"tag-panamsoftball","11":"tag-softballcanada","12":"tag-to2015","13":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28070","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=28070"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28075,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28070\/revisions\/28075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}