{"id":1158,"date":"2009-05-21T17:45:20","date_gmt":"2009-05-22T01:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/thedeuce\/?p=1158"},"modified":"2009-05-21T17:48:58","modified_gmt":"2009-05-22T01:48:58","slug":"pride-is-back-in-decatur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/thedeuce\/?p=1158","title":{"rendered":"Pride is back in Decatur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Editor&#8217;s Note: The Decatur Pride, an ISC powerhouse in the 1990s, is back in the game and are starting out in ISC II. They made their debut in Villa Grove, dropping a quarter-final game in extra innings, but bigger things are expected from the Pride as they attempt to qualify for the 2009 ToC.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Team doesn&#8217;t miss a beat in return<\/strong><br \/>\nFrom:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.herald-review.com\/articles\/2009\/05\/21\/columnists\/tupper\/1041322.txt\"><img src=\"http:\/\/images.townnews.com\/herald-review.com\/includes\/header\/images\/logo.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>(click banner for original news story)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/images.townnews.com\/herald-review.com\/images\/mugs\/tupper.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<em>By Mark Tupper &#8211; H&#038;R Executive Sports Editor<\/em><\/p>\n<p>DECATUR &#8211; There&#8217;s no telling how many men&#8217;s fastpitch softball games Don &#8220;Doc&#8221; Boyer has witnessed at Borg-Warner Field. Maybe all of them from 1980 through 1995.<\/p>\n<p>As the former trainer for the ADM and Decatur Pride softball teams, he has tended to more sore muscles, bloody contusions and overheated pitchers than he could ever count.<\/p>\n<p>Read the rest of this story on our brother blog, the Morning Brief <a href=\"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=3212\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor&#8217;s Note: The Decatur Pride, an ISC powerhouse in the 1990s, is back in the game and are starting out in ISC II. They made their debut in Villa Grove, dropping a quarter-final game in extra innings, but bigger things are expected from the Pride as they attempt to qualify for the 2009 ToC. Team [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/thedeuce\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/thedeuce\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/thedeuce\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/thedeuce\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/thedeuce\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/thedeuce\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/thedeuce\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/thedeuce\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/thedeuce\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}