{"id":19818,"date":"2011-08-12T18:13:47","date_gmt":"2011-08-13T01:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/taylor-baseball-18u-team-wins-usabf-wood-bat-world-series\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T18:00:32","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T01:00:32","slug":"taylor-baseball-18u-team-wins-usabf-wood-bat-world-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/sports\/taylor-baseball-18u-team-wins-usabf-wood-bat-world-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Baseball 18U team wins USABF Wood Bat World Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taylorbaseball.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Taylor Baseball Club<\/a>,  an 18U select team that includes several local players, won the United  States Amateur Baseball Federation Wood Bat World Series on Saturday,  Aug. 6 at Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego, Calif.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Behind a strong pitching performance by ace Spencer Hobson, a 2011  Tahoma High graduate, Taylor Baseball turned back the San Diego Hustle,  6-1.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Hobson allowed one run while scattering three hits and striking out  five in six innings of work. The tournament ran from July 29-Aug. 6.  Taylor Baseball won eight of its 11 games, culminating with the  championship over the Hustle.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Other locals on the team along with Hobson include: Kyle Doyle  (Kentwood), Avery Kain (Kentwood), Chris Kerwood (Tahoma), Austin  Pernell (Kentlake) and Dylan Wright (Kentlake).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>This story originally appeared on Erick Walker\u2019s blog, Kent Valley Sports, at www.covingtonreporter.com.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Taylor Baseball Club, an 18U select team that includes several local players, won the United States Amateur Baseball Federation Wood Bat World Series on Saturday, Aug. 6 at Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego, Calif.<\/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-19818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19818"}],"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=19818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19818"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=19818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}