{"id":28096,"date":"2015-07-20T11:01:24","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T18:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=28096"},"modified":"2015-07-20T11:02:05","modified_gmt":"2015-07-20T18:02:05","slug":"horn-of-plenty-for-waterloo-softball-player-at-pan-am-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=28096","title":{"rendered":"Horn of plenty for Waterloo softball player at Pan Am Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Cap tip ISC Canada East<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.therecord.com\/pan-am-games-story\/5741297-horn-of-plenty-for-waterloo-softball-player-at-pan-am-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>From the Waterloo Region Record<\/em><\/a><br \/>\n<em>By Christine Rivet<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Brandon Horn&#8217;s gold rush continued unabated as Team Canada&#8217;s reigning world championship softball squad mined its second title this month, this time at the Pan American Games.<\/p>\n<p>The Waterloo native and Canada&#8217;s second baseman recorded one put-out and an assist in the field, but did not get a hit as Canada clipped Venezuela 2-1 in a pitchers&#8217; duel at the Games Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Canadian centrefielder Blair Ezekiel, one of five Newfoundlanders on the team, delivered the telling blow with a two-run homer in the bottom of the sixth.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"pullquote\">&#8220;I thought that should do it,&#8221; Horn, 29, a local plumber, said of the championship-winning hit. &#8220;We had Sean (Cleary) on the mound and Sean has been almost unhittable. But those last three outs did drag out a bit. Those are always the hardest outs to get.&#8221;<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.therecord.com\/pan-am-games-story\/5741297-horn-of-plenty-for-waterloo-softball-player-at-pan-am-games\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to continue reading at the Waterloo Region Record.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cap tip ISC Canada East From the Waterloo Region Record By Christine Rivet Brandon Horn&#8217;s gold rush continued unabated as Team Canada&#8217;s reigning world championship softball squad mined its second title this month, this time at the Pan American Games. The Waterloo native and Canada&#8217;s second baseman recorded one put-out and an assist in the [&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":[5,9,19],"tags":[126,323,193,329],"class_list":{"0":"post-28096","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-canada","7":"category-international","8":"category-players","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\/28096","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=28096"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28098,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28096\/revisions\/28098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}