{"id":1600,"date":"2025-03-29T22:53:11","date_gmt":"2025-03-30T02:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/baseball\/?p=1600"},"modified":"2025-03-29T22:53:11","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T02:53:11","slug":"apprentice-snaps-losing-skid-with-20-3-rout-of-macu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/baseball\/2025\/03\/29\/apprentice-snaps-losing-skid-with-20-3-rout-of-macu\/","title":{"rendered":"Apprentice Snaps Losing Skid with 20-3 Rout of MACU"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>HAMPTON, Va. &#8211;<\/strong> Apprentice snapped a four-game losing skid in a big way Friday afternoon, taking down MACU 20-3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Mustangs struck first in the top of the third inning with a single run, but the Builders answered with the next 20 runs, five of which came in the third. Jeremy Harmon started the scoring with a RBI double before Caleb Russell kept it going two batters later on a RBI single to give Apprentice a 2-1 lead. Hunter Johnson then doubled, setting the table for Mason Cox to clear the bases on a triple that made the score 5-1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Builders tacked on 14 more runs in the fourth inning, sending 20 batters to the plate in the frame. The inning was highlighted by a Jett Winslow two-run blast early in the frame before AS added 10 more runs after the homer to push the score to 19-1. Another Cox RBI single pushed the score to 20-1 after five innings of work. MACU pushed two more across in the sixth to get to the final score.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Johnson finished the game going 5-for-5 with a double, three runs scored and two RBI. Russell went 4-for-5, while Cam Weston, Cox and Harmon each had three hits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nick Redman (2-1) got the win, going five innings, allowing just one run off three hits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Story and image courtesy Apprentice Athletics<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HAMPTON, Va. &#8211; Apprentice snapped a four-game losing skid in a big way Friday afternoon, taking down MACU 20-3. The Mustangs struck first in the top of the third inning with a single run, but the Builders answered with the next 20 runs, five of which came in the third. Jeremy Harmon started the scoring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1601,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,15,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apprentice","category-macu","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1600","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=1600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1602,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1600\/revisions\/1602"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}