{"id":6125,"date":"2010-12-09T17:10:35","date_gmt":"2010-12-10T01:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=6125"},"modified":"2010-12-09T17:10:35","modified_gmt":"2010-12-10T01:10:35","slug":"final-looms-for-black-sox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=6125","title":{"rendered":"Final looms for Black Sox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/sport\/other-sports\/4443756\/Final-looms-for-Black-Sox\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/static2.stuff.co.nz\/1233366198\/441\/941441.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"128\" height=\"40\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Click logo for original story<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6126\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6126\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/casely.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6126\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/casely.jpg\" alt=\"Rhys Casely\" width=\"200\" height=\"298\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6126\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rhys Casely<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The New Zealand men&#8217;s softball team remain on course to reach tomorrow&#8217;s final of the international tournament in Canberra.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Sox yesterday beat Australia Green 12-7 and then backed up  that performance with a 9-1 win over Argentina to stay in contention  for the final.<\/p>\n<p>Against Australia Green, considered to be the weaker of the two  Australian national teams involved in the tournament, Black Sox captain  Rhys Casley led the way with three hits from his four turns at bat.<\/p>\n<p>Casley&#8217;s hit in the fourth inning was a home run which also scored  Ben Enoka and Tyson Byrne as New Zealand stretched their lead to 9-1.<\/p>\n<p>Australia Green hit back in the next inning when Black Sox pitcher Thomas Cameron gave up four hits, including a home run.<\/p>\n<p>Against Argentina, who had beaten Australia Gold 3-0 earlier  yesterday, the New Zealanders their opponents on the back foot from the  first inning when they scored three runs through Byrne, Wayne Laulu and  Brad Rona.<\/p>\n<p>Four innings later the game was over with the Black Sox scoring five runs.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Sox today (Dec 10) play Australia Green and Australia Gold to complete the round robin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click logo for original story The New Zealand men&#8217;s softball team remain on course to reach tomorrow&#8217;s final of the international tournament in Canberra. The Black Sox yesterday beat Australia Green 12-7 and then backed up that performance with a 9-1 win over Argentina to stay in contention for the final. Against Australia Green, considered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6126,"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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6125","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-international","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6125","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=6125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6127,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6125\/revisions\/6127"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}