{"id":37365,"date":"2021-07-06T08:32:36","date_gmt":"2021-07-06T12:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=37365"},"modified":"2021-07-06T08:32:38","modified_gmt":"2021-07-06T12:32:38","slug":"kuba-knights-compete-in-cooperstown-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=37365","title":{"rendered":"KUBA Knights compete in Cooperstown tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_14169\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Knights.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14169\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14169\" src=\"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Knights-350x264.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"264\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14169\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Back Row (L-R): Garrett McCracken, Cam Tanner, Alex Gannon; Front Row (L-R): Matt DiFelice, Alexis Laboy, Micah Nelson, Bryce Boyer, Rex Bright, Jack Matthews, Tony Fulginiti, Ivan Dickinson, Grant Fleming<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The KUBA Knights 12U travel baseball team returned home on Friday, June 25<sup>th<\/sup> from a week-long tournament at Cooperstown All Star Village.\u00a0 \u201cAmerica\u2019s first and only baseball resort and tournament camp\u201d, CASV provides 12 year-old players a unique opportunity allowing family members to watch from their own dugout.\u00a0 Each player received a home and away jersey, warm-up jacket, hat and official ring.<\/p>\n<p>During their stay, they competed against teams from all over the country, visited the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown (NY) and bunked together with their three coaches: Steve Fleming, Mark Matthews and Brent McCracken.\u00a0 The team placed 17<sup>th<\/sup> overall out of the 44 teams that were there.\u00a0 Collectively they hit 18 home runs.<\/p>\n<p>The team would like to thank those community members that donated shoes at Brandywine Ace Pet &amp; Farm and Philter Coffee, bought pumpkins and Wawa coupons, and participated in various other fundraising efforts.\u00a0 In addition, they would like to extend a special thank you to the following companies for their generous donation despite the pandemic: Country Butcher, Kennett Community Wrestling Club, Leone Pizzini &amp; Sons Inc., Mushroom Central Supply Inc., and Skybound Construction LLC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The KUBA Knights 12U travel baseball team returned home on Friday, June 25th from a week-long tournament at Cooperstown All Star Village.\u00a0 \u201cAmerica\u2019s first and only baseball resort and tournament camp\u201d, CASV provides 12 year-old players a unique opportunity allowing family members to watch from their own dugout.\u00a0 Each player received a home and away [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[56,12978,12977,4946],"class_list":["post-37365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-baseball","tag-cooperstown","tag-kuba-knights","tag-youth-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37366,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37365\/revisions\/37366"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}