{"id":28942,"date":"2015-08-27T07:53:38","date_gmt":"2015-08-27T14:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=28942"},"modified":"2015-08-27T08:21:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-27T15:21:00","slug":"ellsworth-chasing-national-fast-pitch-title-and-fourth-gold-of-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=28942","title":{"rendered":"Ellsworth chasing national fast pitch title and fourth gold of 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.journalpioneer.com\/Sports\/2015-08-26\/article-4258236\/Ellsworth-chasing-national-fast-pitch-title-beginning-today\/1\" target=\"_blank\">From The Journal Pioneer<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Outfielder <strong>Jeff Ellsworth<\/strong> will wear his third different uniform of the softball season starting this afternoon in Quebec.<\/p>\n<p>The St. Lawrence native is playing with Nova Scotia\u2019s East Hants Mastodons at the six-team <a href=\"http:\/\/championship.softball.ca\/seniormens\/\" target=\"_blank\">Canadian senior men\u2019s fast pitch tournament<\/a> in Ste-Claire and St-Gervais.<\/p>\n<p>Fellow national team player Jason Sanford asked Ellsworth if he was interested in playing with the Mastodons earlier this summer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been playing against most of them for years at the nationals and the Eastern Canadian loop,\u201d said Ellsworth, the lone Islander playing in this year\u2019s tournament. \u201cI know probably 90 per cent of the roster.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/smfcc.bbstats.pointstreak.com\/team_roster.html?teamid=101319&#038;seasonid=29143\" target=\"_blank\">CLICK HERE FOR THE MASTODONS ROSTER.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>East Hants opens play today at 1:30 p.m. Atlantic against Saskatoon before driving about 30 minutes to another field to play Alvinston, Ont., at 4:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"pullquote\">\u201cWe want to go and get double life going into the weekend,\u201d Ellsworth said Wednesday morning. \u201cYou want to get confidence and the momentum going early, so the first day is key.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Mastodons, which has a Twitter handle of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mastodons13\" target=\"_blank\">@mastodons13<\/a>, drove to Quebec on Tuesday while Ellsworth and Sanford flew up Wednesday morning.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.journalpioneer.com\/Sports\/2015-08-26\/article-4258236\/Ellsworth-chasing-national-fast-pitch-title-beginning-today\/1\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to continue reading at The Journal Pioneer.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Journal Pioneer Outfielder Jeff Ellsworth will wear his third different uniform of the softball season starting this afternoon in Quebec. The St. Lawrence native is playing with Nova Scotia\u2019s East Hants Mastodons at the six-team Canadian senior men\u2019s fast pitch tournament in Ste-Claire and St-Gervais. Fellow national team player Jason Sanford asked Ellsworth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28898,"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":[5,23],"tags":[389,388,380],"class_list":{"0":"post-28942","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"category-tournaments","9":"tag-fortknox","10":"tag-jeffellsworth","11":"tag-srcanadians2015","12":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28942","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=28942"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28945,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28942\/revisions\/28945"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}