{"id":31112,"date":"2017-06-06T16:03:15","date_gmt":"2017-06-06T23:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=31112"},"modified":"2017-06-06T16:03:33","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T23:03:33","slug":"39th-annual-rice-lake-invitational-tournament-june-9-11-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=31112","title":{"rendered":"39th Annual Rice Lake Invitational Tournament &#8211; June 9-11, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/rsz_ricelake_map_250.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-27610\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/rsz_ricelake_map_250.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"241\" \/><\/a><\/strong><em>Information courtesy of Ron Kopp:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>9 TEAMS TO COMPETE IN 39th RICE LAKE AQUAFEST<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>INVITATIONAL MEN\u2019S FASTPITCH TOURNAMENT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Six teams from Wisconsin, two from Minnesota, and one from Kansas make up the roster of teams for the 39th Rice Lake Invitational Men\u2019s Fastpitch Tournament to be held June 9-11, once again as part of the city\u2019s Aquafest celebration.<\/p>\n<p>Defending champion Tin Cup of St. Paul and 2016 runner-up Ostrander Norsemen of Ostrander, Minnesota are not entered in this year\u2019s meet.<\/p>\n<p>Wisconsin entries include Striker\u2019s Lanes of Baldwin, Dugout Bar and Grill and Cushing Tigers of Cushing, Ben\u2019s Northern Bar-Deer\u2019s Food Locker of Luck, and the Rice Lake Orangemen, the only team to have played in all 38 previous events.<\/p>\n<p>Len\u2019s Automotive of St. Paul and last year\u2019s third place finisher, Odin Fastpitch, are the two Gopher State entries.<\/p>\n<p>The Kansas entry is Wizard of Oz from Silver Lake, a perennial entry in national fastpitch competition of the North American Fastpitch Association.<\/p>\n<p>Play begins Friday evening at Rice Lake\u2019s Tate Park with one game, that at 8:00 p.m., and continues all day Saturday with opening games at 10:00 a.m. and Sunday starting at 9:00 a.m.\u00a0 The event concludes early Sunday evening.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Ronn Kopp \u2013 ronnkopp [at] charter.net<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Information courtesy of Ron Kopp: 9 TEAMS TO COMPETE IN 39th RICE LAKE AQUAFEST INVITATIONAL MEN\u2019S FASTPITCH TOURNAMENT Six teams from Wisconsin, two from Minnesota, and one from Kansas make up the roster of teams for the 39th Rice Lake Invitational Men\u2019s Fastpitch Tournament to be held June 9-11, once again as part of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27610,"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":[28,23],"tags":[722,721],"class_list":{"0":"post-31112","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured","8":"category-tournaments","9":"tag-ricelake2017","10":"tag-wifastball","11":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31112","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=31112"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31115,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31112\/revisions\/31115"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}