{"id":1128,"date":"2024-05-04T21:11:22","date_gmt":"2024-05-05T01:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/baseball\/?p=1128"},"modified":"2024-05-09T21:35:45","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T01:35:45","slug":"apprentice-sweeps-championship-saturday-to-claim-first-nsac-baseball-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/baseball\/2024\/05\/04\/apprentice-sweeps-championship-saturday-to-claim-first-nsac-baseball-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Apprentice Sweeps Championship Saturday to Claim First NSAC Baseball Title"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>WILSON, N.C. &#8211; <\/strong>After being shut out by Lighthouse Christian in the opening round, The Apprentice School came back with a vengeance on Saturday to win both games against the Makos and claim its first New South Conference baseball title.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A deeper bullpen proved the difference with both games being decided by the 10-run rule, 19-9 in the first and 15-3 in the second.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Apprentice (39-8) came into the tournament ranked eighth in the final USCAA regular season baseball poll and now awaits to see its opponent in next week&#8217;s Small College World Series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lighthouse (5-29) stunned the Builders 5-0 on Thursday, holding Apprentice scoreless for the first time this season. The Makos then followed that with an 11-9 win over Virginia State on Friday, only the fifth win for the first-year baseball program from Pensacola, Florida. The Builders advanced to the championship round by downing VSU 11-1 in Friday&#8217;s elimination game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But Lighthouse&#8217;s magical run was to end there as the Builders, already touting the best record in school history, pulled away from the Makos in both games on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WILSON, N.C. &#8211; After being shut out by Lighthouse Christian in the opening round, The Apprentice School came back with a vengeance on Saturday to win both games against the Makos and claim its first New South Conference baseball title. A deeper bullpen proved the difference with both games being decided by the 10-run rule, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1130,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,22,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apprentice","category-lighthouse","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1128"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1134,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128\/revisions\/1134"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}