{"id":28150,"date":"2015-07-24T12:41:41","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T19:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=28150"},"modified":"2015-07-24T12:43:20","modified_gmt":"2015-07-24T19:43:20","slug":"its-softball-gold-and-goodbye-for-townsends-ian-fehrman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=28150","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s softball gold and goodbye for Townsend\u2019s Ian Fehrman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Cap tip ISC Canada East<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/It\u2019s softball gold and goodbye for Townsend\u2019s Ian Fehrman\" target=\"_blank\">From the Hamilton Spectator<\/a><br \/>\n<em>By Janie Ginsberg <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Team Canada&#8217;s Ian Fehrman is retiring with gold.<\/p>\n<p>The 35-year-old softball player grew up playing ball in Jarvis and Hagersville \u2014 a shortstop all his life \u2014 and capped it all off when Canada beat Venezuela 2-1 in the gold medal final.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It as an exciting game, pretty much a draw right until the sixth inning it was nothing-nothing,&#8221; said Fehrman.<\/p>\n<p>Then, Canada took the lead it would never relinquish on a two-run home run in the bottom of the sixth.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We kind of tried to make things interesting in the seventh,&#8221; he said. &#8220;They got a run \u2026 but then our pitcher shut the door.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>His team also won the world championships in Saskatoon a couple weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s been a pretty cool last month, that&#8217;s for sure, winning the ISF and coming right to the Pan Am&#8217;s and getting gold there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But playing in Ajax, an hour away from the athletes&#8217; village, the team had to wait to celebrate.<\/p>\n<p>After a couple medal ceremonies, getting back to the athletes&#8217; village around 11 p.m., the team was finally able to have a couple drinks for a proper celebration.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I had no idea what to expect coming into it \u2026 everything was first class, 24\/7 food and you were catered to, whatever you needed,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It&#8217;s something hopefully every athlete will experience at least once.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/It\u2019s softball gold and goodbye for Townsend\u2019s Ian Fehrman\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to continue reading at The Hamilton Spectator<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cap tip ISC Canada East From the Hamilton Spectator By Janie Ginsberg Team Canada&#8217;s Ian Fehrman is retiring with gold. The 35-year-old softball player grew up playing ball in Jarvis and Hagersville \u2014 a shortstop all his life \u2014 and capped it all off when Canada beat Venezuela 2-1 in the gold medal final. &#8220;It [&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-28150","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\/28150","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=28150"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28152,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28150\/revisions\/28152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}