{"id":9084,"date":"2011-03-16T11:44:54","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T18:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=9084"},"modified":"2011-03-16T12:33:02","modified_gmt":"2011-03-16T19:33:02","slug":"porirua-city-off-to-a-mixed-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=9084","title":{"rendered":"Porirua City off to a mixed start at New Zealand Nationals"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6153\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6153\" style=\"width: 128px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/sport\/other-sports\/4777043\/Porirua-City-off-to-a-mixed-start\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Stuff.NZ_.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"Stuff.NZ\" width=\"128\" height=\"40\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6153\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6153\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click logo for original news story<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>By Linda Wood<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nDisappointing, but perhaps expected. That best sums up Porirua City United coach Les Bishop&#8217;s description of his side&#8217;s performance yesterday in the national men&#8217;s open softball tournament at Fraser Park.  Porirua beat Fastpitch (Hawke&#8217;s Bay) 7-2, but then lost to Mt Albert Ramblers 11-1.  &#8220;It was disappointing,&#8221; Bishop said. &#8220;We really needed two wins.&#8221; However, it was always going to be a tough ask for Porirua to beat Ramblers, whose lineup includes Australian pitcher Andrew Kirkpatrick, and were ahead 3-0 after the first inning. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/sport\/other-sports\/4777043\/Porirua-City-off-to-a-mixed-start\">Click here for the complete story at Stuff.nz<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Editor&#8217;s note:<\/strong> The favorites in this tournament are Kirkpatrick&#8217;s Ramblers, Miramar, the Hutt Valley Dodgers and Auckland Marist.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-5012464944583968\";\n\/* Ballparkradio Main *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"2176237682\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 468;\ngoogle_ad_height = 60;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Linda Wood Disappointing, but perhaps expected. That best sums up Porirua City United coach Les Bishop&#8217;s description of his side&#8217;s performance yesterday in the national men&#8217;s open softball tournament at Fraser Park. Porirua beat Fastpitch (Hawke&#8217;s Bay) 7-2, but then lost to Mt Albert Ramblers 11-1. &#8220;It was disappointing,&#8221; Bishop said. &#8220;We really needed [&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":[9,23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9084","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-international","8":"category-tournaments","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9084","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=9084"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9088,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9084\/revisions\/9088"}],"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=9084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}