{"id":14524,"date":"2011-05-10T22:39:51","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T05:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/baseball-kentwood-knocks-off-gig-harbor-clinches-state-berth\/"},"modified":"2016-10-21T12:05:41","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T19:05:41","slug":"baseball-kentwood-knocks-off-gig-harbor-clinches-state-berth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/sports\/baseball-kentwood-knocks-off-gig-harbor-clinches-state-berth\/","title":{"rendered":"BASEBALL: Kentwood knocks off Gig Harbor, clinches state berth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>It wasn&#8217;t pretty, but the Kentwood High baseball team (16-8) earned a state berth in its first district playoff game Tuesday night with a 15-7 win over Gig Harbor at Heritage Park in Puyallup.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>&#8220;We didn&#8217;t play very good defense and didn&#8217;t pitch very well, but we came to hit,&#8221; said Kentwood coach Jon Aarstad.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Kentwood scored three runs in the first inning and three more in the second to take a 6-4 lead. The Tides hung around much of the night thanks to five Kentwood errors.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s nice to be able to get into the state tournament and have that berth solidified, and not have to play a loser-out game,&#8221; Aarstad said. &#8220;But we still have a lot of things to work on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Kyle Green picked up the win with 4 1\/3 innings of relief. Kyle Doyle led the offense with two hits and four runs batted in. Cash McGwire also scored four runs in the win.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Kentwood has advanced to state in each of the last three years, and seven of the last eight years.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It wasn&#8217;t pretty, but the Kentwood High baseball team (16-8) earned a state berth in its first district playoff game Tuesday night with a 15-7 win over Gig Harbor at Heritage Park in Puyallup.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We didn&#8217;t play very good defense and didn&#8217;t pitch very well, but we came to hit,&#8221; said Kentwood coach Jon Aarstad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-14524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14524"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14524"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=14524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}