{"id":3159,"date":"2014-09-29T20:44:09","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T00:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/birminghamgiants.com\/?p=3159"},"modified":"2014-09-29T20:49:22","modified_gmt":"2014-09-30T00:49:22","slug":"birmingham-giants-notch-100-win-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/birminghamgiants.com\/?p=3159","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham Giants notch 100, win tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Birmingham Giants 15u baseball team reached the 100 win milestone on sunday at thompson high school, and cruised to a first place finish.<\/p>\n

\"Fall<\/a>In game 1 the Giants faced off with the North Alabama Patriots. Quenton Kersey became the Giants All time Pitching wins leader winning his 8th career game, going 5 Innings, allowing 3 hits and 1 run while striking out 4.\u00a0 Offensively the Giants were lead by Mikey McGuire (1), who notched the Giants first hit in the 4th inning to end a no hit bid, Noah Hat Horn (1) , Quenton Kersey (1), Joey Schramm (1), and Jamie Rainer (1), and the Giants put 4 runs on the board and won 4-1. This win was the 100th in the history of the Birmingham Giants 15u team.<\/p>\n

\"Mikey<\/a>

Mikey McGuire P\/C\/OF\/SS 2017<\/p><\/div>\n

In the second tournament game, which because the Hurricanes were using 16u players, became a win for the Giants. Mikey McGuire went 4 innings on the mound, allowing 1 hit, striking out 4 , and 1 earned run. Offensively the Giants managed only 2 hits (McGuire (1), Schramm (1))<\/p>\n

In Game 3 the Giants faced a declining Birmingham Braves team. In a walk filled affair, Giants pitchers allowed 10 walks in 5 innings, but just 2 hits to the weak hitting braves club and left with an extremely disappointing 5-5 tie.<\/p>\n

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\"Noah<\/a>

Noah Hathorn P\/1B\/OF<\/p><\/div>\n

Offensively the Giants blasted braves pitching for 8 hits,(\u00a0Cobb (1), Hathorn (3), McGuire (1), Thrasher (2, 2b), Kersey (1), Miller (1), and a game saving sacrifice from Hunter Garcia, that became the biggest play of the game,\u00a0but stranded 7 runners and allowed the braves to escape with more than they could have expected, a 5-5 tie.<\/p>\n

The Giants play next sunday at Faulkner Univ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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