{"id":754,"date":"2007-06-15T14:39:04","date_gmt":"2007-06-15T22:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/thedeuce\/?p=754"},"modified":"2007-06-15T14:39:04","modified_gmt":"2007-06-15T22:39:04","slug":"niagara-elora-elmira-are-top-3-in-isc-ii-for-june-15-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/thedeuce\/?p=754","title":{"rendered":"Niagara, Elora &#038; Elmira are top 3 in ISC II for June 15 Rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/eteamz.active.com\/niagarasnappers\/images\/wink.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><img src=\"http:\/\/www.wellingtonbrewery.ca\/images\/welly.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><img src=\"http:\/\/acc-www.uchicago.edu\/Applicants\/images\/CubsLogo.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>June 15, 2007 \u2013 Top finishes at the highly regarded Snapper Shootout and the Mitchell tournaments vaulted Elora Wellington Brewers from 10th into a tie for second in the June 15 ISC II rankings. Elora finished in a dead heat with the 2005 ISC II Champion Elmira Cubs, who dropped the championship game to the Brewers in Mitchell, on the heels of a strong showing at the Woodstock Legends tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Remaining atop the rankings for the second straight period are the Niagara Snappers. Making his highly anticipated debut in Snapper black &#038; white at the Shootout was ISC II strikeout king Corey Costello and he didn&#8217;t disappoint, leading the Snappers to the final game against Elora before it was rained out.<\/p>\n<p>Moving up two spots to #4 are the California LumberKings, who have been giving fits to top-ranked ISC teams all season long. Rounding out the top five are the defending champion Tavistock Merchants who have played well, but haven&#8217;t been able to put it all together just yet.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 35 teams from across North America received at least one vote from the panel of 12 rankers.<\/p>\n<p>The top 10 are as follows:<\/p>\n<p>1. Niagara, ON Snappers<br \/>\n2. Elora, ON Wellington Brewers<br \/>\n2. Elmira, ON Cubs<br \/>\n4. Bakersfield, CA Lumberkings<br \/>\n5. Tavistock, ON Merchants<br \/>\n6. Palermo, ON Athletics<br \/>\n7. Perkasie, PA Rise<br \/>\n8. Oswego, NY Cutro Professional Inspections<br \/>\n9. Ottawa, ON Team Easton Thunder<br \/>\n10. South Lebanon, PA TNT<\/p>\n<p>To see the full list, including how each committee member ranked the teams, please see the ISC II section of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iscfastpitch.com\">ISC website.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>The rankings will form the basis for seeding teams in the sixth annual ISC II Tournament of Champions which will be played August 14-18 at Budd Park in Kitchener and Kinsmen Park in Cambridge, Ontario. The tournament will feature 35 teams from across North America playing a four-game round robin schedule in seven pools of five teams each. The top three teams from each pool along with three wildcards will advance to a single elimination playoff bracket. <\/p>\n<p>For more information, please contact: <\/p>\n<p>Blair Setford<br \/>\nISC II Commissioner<br \/>\nEmail: blairjs(at)rogers.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 15, 2007 \u2013 Top finishes at the highly regarded Snapper Shootout and the Mitchell tournaments vaulted Elora Wellington Brewers from 10th into a tie for second in the June 15 ISC II rankings. Elora finished in a dead heat with the 2005 ISC II Champion Elmira Cubs, who dropped the championship game to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/thedeuce\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754"}],"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=754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/thedeuce\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/thedeuce\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/thedeuce\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/thedeuce\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}