{"id":31575,"date":"2017-09-04T10:59:17","date_gmt":"2017-09-04T17:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=31575"},"modified":"2017-09-04T12:56:24","modified_gmt":"2017-09-04T19:56:24","slug":"nova-scotiaa-east-hants-mastodons-captures-canadian-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=31575","title":{"rendered":"Nova Scotia&#8217;s East Hants Mastodons Capture Canadian Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetelegram.com\/sports\/other-sports\/2017\/9\/3\/newfoundland-s-national-men-s-fastpitch-championship-run-ends.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-31576\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Canadians2017.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Canadians2017.jpg 310w, https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Canadians2017-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 310px) 100vw, 310px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/Newfoundland's national men's fastpitch championship run ends\">From the Telegram<\/a><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Newfoundland&#8217;s national men&#8217;s fastpitch championship run ends<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Galway Hitmen&#8217;s bid for province&#8217;s sixth straight title falls just short with 6-5 loss to Nova Scotia team in final<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Galway Hitmen\u2019s chase for Newfoundland\u2019s sixth straight Canadian men\u2019s fastpitch title fell one run short Sunday as they lost 6-5 to the East Hants Mastodons of Nova Scotia in the national championship final in Saskatoon.<\/p>\n<p>It was the defending champion Hitmen\u2019s second playoff loss to the Mastodons, who had prevailed 5-2 in a Saturday matchup.<\/p>\n<p>That meant Galway had to play in Sunday\u2019s semifinal against the Bulyea, Sask., Rustlers, and made short work of the Prairie team in that one, winning 22-1 in a game that ended after just three innings. But in the game that immediately followed against the Mastodons, the Hitmen couldn\u2019t come up with same sort of dominance, although they did take a 4-2 lead with a couple runs in the top of the third inning.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/Newfoundland's national men's fastpitch championship run ends\">Click here to continue reading at The Telegram<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Telegram Newfoundland&#8217;s national men&#8217;s fastpitch championship run ends Galway Hitmen&#8217;s bid for province&#8217;s sixth straight title falls just short with 6-5 loss to Nova Scotia team in final The Galway Hitmen\u2019s chase for Newfoundland\u2019s sixth straight Canadian men\u2019s fastpitch title fell one run short Sunday as they lost 6-5 to the East Hants [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31576,"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":[807,804,193],"class_list":{"0":"post-31575","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-easthantsmastodons","11":"tag-mensnationals17","12":"tag-softballcanada","13":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31575","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=31575"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31579,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31575\/revisions\/31579"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}