{"id":4101,"date":"2012-07-02T00:03:46","date_gmt":"2012-07-02T04:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=4101"},"modified":"2012-07-02T00:06:03","modified_gmt":"2012-07-02T04:06:03","slug":"kau-under-ten-year-olds-advance-to-final-four-in-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=4101","title":{"rendered":"KAU under ten year olds advance to final four in district"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong><em><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Kennett youngsters show heart in loser&#8217;s bracket win over Coatesville<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">By Dave Conard<\/span> <\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">Sports Editor, KennettTimes.com<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?attachment_id=4102\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4102\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4102 alignright\" style=\"border: 2px solid blue; margin: 4px;\" title=\"KAU copy\" src=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/KAU-copy-300x243.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/KAU-copy-300x243.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/KAU-copy.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>LIONVILLE&#8211;It takes a certain kind of\u00a0mentality to be successful when a team finds themselves battling through the loser&#8217;s bracket in any double elimination tournament.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, the KAU under-10 years old all stars showed their metal as they battled the heat and a very good Coatesville team in the 10-and-under little league district championship tournament being held in Lionville.<\/p>\n<p>Helping lead the way, 10-year old Earl McKenny, who rapped a double, was hit by a pitch and drove in a run on a sacrifice, KAU defeated Coatesville by a count of 9-5.<\/p>\n<p>The win eliminated Coatesville and advanced KAU into the district semi final on Monday night at 6:00pm where they will face Avon Grove, who suffered their first loss of the tourney on Sunday at the hands of Eastside.<\/p>\n<p>The winner from Monday night\u2019s battle will advance to the championship game on Tuesday at Lionville, with a berth in the state tournament at stake.<\/p>\n<p>Check back at KennettTimes.com for complete coverage from Monday&#8217;s game including a photo slide show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kennett youngsters show heart in loser&#8217;s bracket win over Coatesville By Dave Conard Sports Editor, KennettTimes.com LIONVILLE&#8211;It takes a certain kind of\u00a0mentality to be successful when a team finds themselves battling through the loser&#8217;s bracket in any double elimination tournament. On Sunday, the KAU under-10 years old all stars showed their metal as they battled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,4,9],"tags":[822,823,158,821,820],"class_list":["post-4101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-featured","category-schools","tag-10-and-under","tag-coatesville-little-league","tag-kau","tag-lionville-little-league","tag-little-league-baseball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4101","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=4101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}