{"id":336283,"date":"2017-05-22T11:29:18","date_gmt":"2017-05-22T17:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/?p=336283"},"modified":"2017-05-22T11:42:49","modified_gmt":"2017-05-22T17:42:49","slug":"public-schools-strike-a-blow-in-baseball-and-softball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/public-schools-strike-a-blow-in-baseball-and-softball\/","title":{"rendered":"Public schools strike a blow in baseball and softball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/NutsandBolts-5-22-17-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-336330 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/NutsandBolts-5-22-17-1-1024x384.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"384\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If we&#8217;re going to continue to debate how private high schools fit into the public school league in the state of Alabama &#8212; which we clearly are going to do &#8212; then we should consider all the relevant information.<\/p>\n<p>That includes state championships won in all sports, including baseball and softball. Based on the results of the last week in Montgomery, there is no issue to solve.<\/p>\n<p>Six of the seven state championships in baseball were won by public schools. The exception was the outstanding team from UMS-Wright in Class 4A.<\/p>\n<p>The results were the same in softball. Only Sumiton Christian in Class 1A bucked the trend of public schools dominating the state tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, results are often going to be different in sports such as golf, tennis or swimming and diving, but the idea of public schools not having a chance to compete for championships because of the advantages afforded to private schools was proven untrue in two of the highest-profile high school sports.<\/p>\n<p>For Threaded Fasteners, I&#8217;m Randy Kennedy with Nuts and Bolts of the Game.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-336283-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/NutsBolts052217.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/NutsBolts052217.mp3\">http:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/NutsBolts052217.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>If we&#8217;re going to continue to debate how private high schools fit into the public school league in the state of Alabama &#8212; which we <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/public-schools-strike-a-blow-in-baseball-and-softball\/\" title=\"Public schools strike a blow in baseball and softball\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":4489,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[161,106,176],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-336283","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-nuts-and-bolts","7":"category-on-the-air","8":"category-top"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4489"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336283"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336332,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336283\/revisions\/336332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}