{"id":30438,"date":"2016-09-02T10:39:23","date_gmt":"2016-09-02T17:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=30438"},"modified":"2016-09-02T10:41:28","modified_gmt":"2016-09-02T17:41:28","slug":"newfoundland-teams-lead-standings-at-2016-canadians-with-undefeated-records-through-two-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=30438","title":{"rendered":"Newfoundland teams lead standings at 2016 Canadians with undefeated records through two days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_30330\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30330\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.softballcanada.tv\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/SRCanadians2016.logo_200.jpg\" alt=\"Click for today&#039;s Live scoreboard\" width=\"200\" height=\"167\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30330\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30330\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click for today&#8217;s Live scoreboard<\/figcaption><\/figure><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetelegram.com\/Sports\/2016-09-01\/article-4630811\/Births-1847\" target=\"_blank\">From The Telegram:<\/a><\/p>\n<p>At the Canadian senior men\u2019s fastpitch championship being held in St. John\u2019s this week, those playoff aspirations come in two parts \u2014 the first is to get there, the second is to get there with a double life.<\/p>\n<p>Eight of the 10 teams in the championship will advance to the playoffs, set to begin Saturday at the Caribou Complex in the Pleasantville area of the city. The top four finishers will advance with a double life, meaning they have a loss to give in their quest for a medal.<\/p>\n<p>Two of the three Newfoundland entries are well on their way to that double life status. Heading into late games Thursday night, the Galway Hitmen, the four-time defending national champions, and Kelly\u2019s Pub Molson Bulldogs were sitting on top of the standings, both with 4-0 records as the only undefeated clubs through the first two days.<\/p>\n<p>The Hitmen have mostly bowled over the opposition, scoring 44 runs overall while giving up just four and seeing three of their contests ended early by the seven-run mercy rule.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetelegram.com\/Sports\/2016-09-01\/article-4630811\/Births-1847\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to continue reading at The Telegram.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nTeam    W    L<\/p>\n<p>NL1 Kellys Pub Molson Bulldogs    4    0<br \/>\nDC Galway Hitmen    4    0<br \/>\nNS East Hants Mastodons    3    1<br \/>\nSK2 Chettys Pretty Boys    2    2<br \/>\nSK3 Saskatoon Poly Plus Angels    2    2<br \/>\nON2 Alvinston Indians    2    2<br \/>\nON1 Kitchener Hallman Cubs    1    2<br \/>\nSK1 Bulyea Rustlers    1    3<br \/>\nSK4 Bridge City Sharks    0    3<br \/>\nNL2 WMC The Bigs Bombers    0    4<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Telegram: At the Canadian senior men\u2019s fastpitch championship being held in St. John\u2019s this week, those playoff aspirations come in two parts \u2014 the first is to get there, the second is to get there with a double life. Eight of the 10 teams in the championship will advance to the playoffs, set [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30330,"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":[5,28,23],"tags":[600,601],"class_list":{"0":"post-30438","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"category-featured","9":"category-tournaments","10":"tag-2016menscfpc","11":"tag-canadians2016","12":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30438","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=30438"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30441,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30438\/revisions\/30441"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}