{"id":41915,"date":"2023-09-03T15:04:54","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T22:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=41915"},"modified":"2023-09-03T15:06:16","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T22:06:16","slug":"bear-creek-express-falls-to-defending-champs-galway-hitmen-finish-3rd-in-2023-canadians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=41915","title":{"rendered":"Bear Creek Express falls to Defending Champs Galway Hitmen, finish 3rd in 2023 Canadians"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Defending Champs Galway Hitmen to face Toronto Batmen in Championship Game<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The Defending Champs Galway Hitmen scored early and often in their semi-final win over Bear Creek Express, 11-1 in four innings.   The Hitmen scored two runs in the first, two more in the second, four in the third and 3 in the fourth for the win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The win avenged the Hitmen&#8217;s lone loss in the tournament, a 4-3 loss to Bear Creek earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The brothers Ezekiel came out hitting each blasting a homer in an 11-1 win over Bear Creek to advance to the final. <br><br>Colin Walsh pitched 4 innings allowing 2 hits, 4 K\u2019s. He also went 3-3 with a homer and 3 RBI\u2019s. <br><br>Galway will now play Toronto Batmen for the title. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LetsGo?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#LetsGo<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JeC4xoT7jv\">pic.twitter.com\/JeC4xoT7jv<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Galway Hitmen (@GalwayHitmen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GalwayHitmen\/status\/1698447503564140715?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 3, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Game eight is a loss 11-1 to DC Galway Hitmen. Bear Creek Express end Canadians 3rd place finish! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Lgof7dvRUg\">pic.twitter.com\/Lgof7dvRUg<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Bear Creek Express (@bearcreek_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bearcreek_\/status\/1698448720684311008?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 3, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defending Champs Galway Hitmen to face Toronto Batmen in Championship Game The Defending Champs Galway Hitmen scored early and often in their semi-final win over Bear Creek Express, 11-1 in four innings. The Hitmen scored two runs in the first, two more in the second, four in the third and 3 in the fourth for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41805,"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":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-41915","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":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41915","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=41915"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41918,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41915\/revisions\/41918"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}