{"id":30334,"date":"2014-10-20T09:20:47","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T14:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=30334"},"modified":"2014-10-21T11:11:14","modified_gmt":"2014-10-21T16:11:14","slug":"brock-baseball-captures-fourth-oua-championship-in-program-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2014\/10\/brock-baseball-captures-fourth-oua-championship-in-program-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock baseball captures fourth OUA championship in program history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/brockchamps.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-30335\" title=\"brockchamps\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/brockchamps-1024x551.jpg\" alt=\"brockchamps\" width=\"504\" height=\"271\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Brock Badgers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oua.ca\/sports\/bsb\/2014-15\/releases\/201410197yiqd3\" target=\"_blank\">captured the Ontario university baseball crown<\/a> on Sunday, exploding for seven runs in the third inning en route to an 8-0 win over the Waterloo Warriors.<\/p>\n<p>The provincial championship, their sixth in the past 20 years, caps off a stellar first-place finish in the regular season when the Badgers went 30-3 overall, including a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oua.ca\/sports\/bsb\/2014-15\/standings\" target=\"_blank\">17-1 record<\/a> against OUA opponents.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am so proud of this group of players,&#8221; said head coach Jeff Lounsbury. &#8220;We had a team goal from the start of training camp to win a championship and we accomplished that. To finish with 30 wins in a single season is also something special that these players will remember.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For the Badgers, it was their 495th win as a program and fifth time in their 20-year history that they have won 30-plus games in a season.<\/p>\n<p>Brock also won OUA titles in 2002, 2004 and 2010. They captured back-to-back CIBA national championships in 1998 and 1999.<\/p>\n<p>After posting a league best 17-1 OUA regular season record in 2014, the Badgers went 3-0 in the OUA championships.<\/p>\n<p>In the final against Waterloo, the Badgers led 1-0 after one inning and scored seven runs in the bottom of the third to blow the game wide open.<\/p>\n<p>Brock batters collected 13 hits with Phil Steer (2-for-3, 2 RBI), Koddi Quick (2-for-3, 2 RBI), Justin Gideon (2-for-3, RBI), Dan Nicoletta (2-for-5, RBI) and Ryan Laird (2-for-5) leading the way.<\/p>\n<p>Ricky Ferri, Chris Anderi and Ben Kirby all chipped in with singles. Blair Gignac had two RBI in the win.<\/p>\n<p>Brock starter and OUA championship MVP Johnny Hutton picked up the victory, allowing three hits and no runs while striking out one in six innings.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan Beckett, Jeffrey Baggaley and Phil Owen tossed three scoreless innings in relief.<\/p>\n<p>Other Notes:<br \/>\n10 Niagara Metros players were members of the Badgers this season.<br \/>\n30 + win seasons include 1996, 1998, 1999, 2013, 2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Brock Badgers captured the Ontario university baseball crown on Sunday, exploding for seven runs in the third inning en route to an 8-0 win over the Waterloo Warriors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30335,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,1],"tags":[581,256,2471,582],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30334"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30334"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30387,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30334\/revisions\/30387"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}