{"id":8212,"date":"2011-02-19T08:50:34","date_gmt":"2011-02-19T16:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=8212"},"modified":"2011-02-20T16:33:50","modified_gmt":"2011-02-21T00:33:50","slug":"canterbury-red-sox-one-win-from-softball-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=8212","title":{"rendered":"Canterbury Red Sox one win from softball title (NZ)"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6153\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6153\" style=\"width: 128px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/sport\/other-sports\/4679959\/Canterbury-Red-Sox-one-win-from-softball-title\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6153\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Stuff.NZ_.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"128\" height=\"40\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6153\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click logo for original news story)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Canterbury men&#8217;s softball team are one game away from winning their first national fastpitch title since the tournament&#8217;s inception in 2002.<\/p>\n<p>Canterbury came from behind to beat Wellington 9-5 today to qualify top for tomorrow&#8217;s final at North Shore&#8217;s Rosedale Park.<\/p>\n<p>Canterbury scored seven unanswered runs, five of which were in the final innings, in the last three innings.<\/p>\n<p>Defending champions Wellington will need to beat Auckland in tomorrow&#8217;s playoff if they are to have a chance of making it back-to-back titles.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, winners of the last four women&#8217;s fastpitch titles Hutt Valley failed to qualify for the final. Instead, the title will be contested between Auckland, last year&#8217;s beaten finalists, and Wellington, who have been a surprise package at the tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Canterbury men&#8217;s softball team are one game away from winning their first national fastpitch title since the tournament&#8217;s inception in 2002. Canterbury came from behind to beat Wellington 9-5 today to qualify top for tomorrow&#8217;s final at North Shore&#8217;s Rosedale Park. Canterbury scored seven unanswered runs, five of which were in the final innings, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6153,"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-8212","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\/8212","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=8212"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8280,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8212\/revisions\/8280"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}