{"id":28138,"date":"2015-07-24T10:50:22","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T17:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=28138"},"modified":"2015-07-24T10:52:08","modified_gmt":"2015-07-24T17:52:08","slug":"softball-veteran-paul-koert-calls-it-a-career-after-pan-am-games-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=28138","title":{"rendered":"Softball veteran Paul Koert calls it a career after Pan Am Games gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Cap tip Bob Simms<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.durhamregion.com\/pan-am-games-story\/5743936-softball-veteran-paul-koert-calls-it-a-career-after-pan-am-games-gold\/\" target=\"_blank\">From the Durham Region Daily<\/a><br \/>\n<em>By Brian McNair<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Former Brooklin resident has spent plenty of years in Oshawa and District Fastball League<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>AJAX &#8212; Team Canada&#8217;s Paul Koert wound up a pitch during men&#8217;s softball action against Venezuela at the President&#8217;s Choice Pan Am Ball Park. July 16, 2015<br \/>\nAjax News Advertiser<br \/>\nBy Brian McNair<\/p>\n<p>AJAX \u2014 If Saturday, July 18 marked the final game in the illustrious career of softball star Paul Koert, he sure left on a high note.<\/p>\n<p>Koert, a 36-year-old former resident of Brooklin and longtime pitcher in the Oshawa and District Fastball League, was part of the Canadian men\u2019s softball team that claimed gold at the Toronto 2015 Pan Am Games.<\/p>\n<p>He didn\u2019t pitch in the championship game, a 2-1 edge-of-the-seat victory over Venezuela at the President\u2019s Choice Ajax Pan Am Ballpark, but he contributed plenty overall for Canada, which won all seven games it played.<\/p>\n<p>The win came hard on the heels of Canada also winning a world championship on home soil, in Saskatoon.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"pullquote\">\u201cThis was it for me, being in the later part of my 30s,\u201d said Koert, who is the vice-president of sales for a veterinary medical company. \u201cWork was very gracious in letting me follow my two dreams, winning a world championship and then a Pan American Games. Both have happened just now, so that\u2019s a huge thing for me and a great way to finish off my career.\u201d <\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.durhamregion.com\/pan-am-games-story\/5743936-softball-veteran-paul-koert-calls-it-a-career-after-pan-am-games-gold\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to continue reading at the Durham Region Daily.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cap tip Bob SimmsFrom the Durham Region Daily By Brian McNair Former Brooklin resident has spent plenty of years in Oshawa and District Fastball League AJAX &#8212; Team Canada&#8217;s Paul Koert wound up a pitch during men&#8217;s softball action against Venezuela at the President&#8217;s Choice Pan Am Ball Park. July 16, 2015 Ajax News Advertiser [&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],"class_list":{"0":"post-28138","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":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28138","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=28138"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28142,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28138\/revisions\/28142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}