{"id":29444,"date":"2016-04-02T11:11:35","date_gmt":"2016-04-02T18:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=29444"},"modified":"2016-04-02T11:12:06","modified_gmt":"2016-04-02T18:12:06","slug":"defending-gold-medalists-argentina-drawn-in-same-pool-as-hosts-united-states-for-2016-wbsc-junior-mens-softball-world-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=29444","title":{"rendered":"Defending Gold Medalists Argentina drawn in same pool as hosts United States for 2016 WBSC Junior Men&#8217;s Softball World Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_29442\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29442\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidethegames.biz\/articles\/1036016\/holders-argentina-drawn-in-same-pool-as-hosts-united-states-for-2016-wbsc-junior-mens-softball-world-championship\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-29442\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/2016_WBSC_JMWC.png\" alt=\"Click logo for original press release\" width=\"360\" height=\"288\" class=\"size-full wp-image-29442\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/2016_WBSC_JMWC.png 360w, https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/2016_WBSC_JMWC-300x240.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-29442\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click logo for original press release<\/figcaption><\/figure><a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidethegames.biz\/articles\/1036016\/holders-argentina-drawn-in-same-pool-as-hosts-united-states-for-2016-wbsc-junior-mens-softball-world-championship\" target=\"_blank\">From Inside the Games<\/a><\/p>\n<p>By Daniel Etchells  Saturday, 2 April 2016<br \/>\nThe 2016 WBSC Junior Men&#8217;s Softball World Championship is due to take place in Midland, Michigan in July \u00a9WBSC<br \/>\nTwo-time defending champions Argentina have been drawn in the same pool as hosts United States for the 2016 World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) Junior Men&#8217;s Softball World Championship in Midland, Michigan.<\/p>\n<p>The South American nation, which captured the gold medals in the Canadian city of Whitehorse in 2014 and on home soil in Paran\u00e1 in 2012, are also joined in Pool A by Australia, Botswana, Czech Republic, Denmark and Venezuela.<\/p>\n<p>World number one ranked nation and 2014 silver medallists New Zealand headline Pool B, which features Canada, Israel, Mexico, South Africa and Japan &#8211; the 2012 runners-up and 2014 bronze medallists.<\/p>\n<p>Competition is scheduled to take place from July 24 to 30 at the Currie Stadium in Emerson Park.<\/p>\n<p>The top four teams from each round-robin pool will advance into a double-page play-off system.<\/p>\n<p>As the home nation, the US will be hoping to improve on their fifth-place finishes at the last two editions of the event.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidethegames.biz\/articles\/1036016\/holders-argentina-drawn-in-same-pool-as-hosts-united-states-for-2016-wbsc-junior-mens-softball-world-championship\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to continue reading at Inside the Games.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Inside the Games By Daniel Etchells Saturday, 2 April 2016 The 2016 WBSC Junior Men&#8217;s Softball World Championship is due to take place in Midland, Michigan in July \u00a9WBSC Two-time defending champions Argentina have been drawn in the same pool as hosts United States for the 2016 World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) Junior Men&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29442,"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":[3,61,82,27],"tags":[418,73,421,487],"class_list":{"0":"post-29444","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-asa","8":"category-usa-softball","9":"category-wbsc","10":"category-youth","11":"tag-midland2016","12":"tag-wbsc","13":"tag-wbsc2016","14":"tag-wbscjmwc2016","15":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29444","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=29444"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29446,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29444\/revisions\/29446"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}