{"id":1280,"date":"2015-05-09T15:54:02","date_gmt":"2015-05-09T23:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/westernjournal\/?p=1280"},"modified":"2015-05-09T15:54:02","modified_gmt":"2015-05-09T23:54:02","slug":"ten-players-earn-great-northwest-athletic-conference-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/ten-players-earn-great-northwest-athletic-conference-honors\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten players earn Great Northwest Athletic Conference honors"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1307\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1307\" style=\"width: 5184px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernjournal\/files\/2015\/05\/IMG_124823.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernjournal\/files\/2015\/05\/IMG_124823.jpg\" alt=\"PHOTO BY OLIVIA DeJANVIER First baseman Nathan Etheridge (#12) at bat in game one against Northwest Nazarene on Saturday, May 2.\" width=\"5184\" height=\"3456\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1307\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1307\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">PHOTO BY OLIVIA DeJANVIER<br \/>First baseman Nathan Etheridge (#12) at bat in game one against Northwest Nazarene on Saturday, May 2.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<pre>By Jacob Mitchell\r\nStaff Writer<\/pre>\n<p>Western\u2019s baseball team had a solid weekend of play, as they went 3-1 in a four-game series against fellow GNAC competitor, Northwest Nazarene University. Their only loss in the series came by way of a nail biting, extra-inning slugfest in game three (7-8).<\/p>\n<p>Junior Adam Bloom led the Wolves offensively this past weekend, with a combined 6-for-8 at the plate with one run scored and two RBIs.<\/p>\n<p>Seniors Matt Taylor and Marcus Hinkle hammered out five hits apiece in their final games at home for Western. Senior Michael Sherwin recorded a pair of home runs in game one, and had a pair of RBIs to match.<\/p>\n<p>It was announced Monday from the GNAC head office that Western had 10 baseball players named to the GNAC Team.<\/p>\n<p>Senior Jesse Pratt was named Pitcher of the Year and Brady Miller was awarded Freshman of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>Along with Pratt, seniors Garret Harpole and Taylor, juniors Shawn Domke and Nathan Etheridge were named as members of the first team.<\/p>\n<p>Second team selection included Miller, junior Garrett Alvarez, juniors Darrien Moran, and Cody Sullivan, while earned honorable mention honors.<\/p>\n<p>Pratt and Taylor were unanimous selections on this year\u2019s first team, while Harpole and Taylor were veterans as they earned the same awards last season.<\/p>\n<p>The team traveled to Billings, Montana Thursday to play in the GNAC tournament. The Wolves lost their first game to NNU, 3-2.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of publication, the Wolves were playing against No. 1 seed Montana State Billings. A loss in this double-elimination tournament would end their season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jacob Mitchell Staff Writer Western\u2019s baseball team had a solid weekend of play, as they went 3-1 in a four-game series against fellow GNAC competitor, Northwest Nazarene University. Their only loss in the series came by way of a nail biting, extra-inning slugfest in game three (7-8). Junior Adam Bloom led the Wolves offensively [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":1326,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}