{"id":9153,"date":"2018-05-08T19:59:38","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T23:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www-chs.stjohns.k12.fl.us\/athletics\/?p=9153"},"modified":"2018-05-08T20:11:09","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T00:11:09","slug":"prep-baseball-st-augustine-creekside-ponte-vedra-begin-playoff-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www-chs.stjohns.k12.fl.us\/athletics\/prep-baseball-st-augustine-creekside-ponte-vedra-begin-playoff-journey\/","title":{"rendered":"Prep Baseball: St. Augustine, Creekside, Ponte Vedra begin playoff journey"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong>Creekside (19-7) at Lake City Columbia (16-12)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>When:<\/strong>\u00a07 p.m.<\/p>\n<div id=\"interstitial\" class=\"interstitial interstitial adInject\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>Potential Starters:<\/strong>\u00a0Creekside \u2014 senior Hunter Bratek or junior Connor Hults will get the baseball. Columbia \u2014 Davion Love (5-4, 2.03) is a senior southpaw who has been the Tigers ace all season.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad-container\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>Analysis:<\/strong>\u00a0Creekside hits the road after being stunned by St. Augustine in the District 4-7A final. The Knights rode their offense all season and will look to do so against the Tigers.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Cantu, Nick Tripp and Hunter Bratek have led the way offensively. Josh Emerson, who had a strong April before sustaining an injury, should be back in the lineup. Sophomore Jacob Topping has provided a spark at the bottom of the lineup, with 3 RBIs and two runs scored in the district tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Cantu and Bratek are among the left-handed bats in the Creekside lineup. Columbia baseball coach Brian Thomas believes the left-on-left matchup may go a long way toward deciding who moves on to the Region 1-7A semifinals next Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey have kids who can swing it,\u201d Thomas said. \u201cLefty on lefty is big. When you can throw with movement a lefty has a tendency to not dig in a lot. Davion, that\u2019s his (modus operandi) He gets in on your hands as a righty and in on your hands as a lefty. If he can frustrate hitters, it\u2019s going to be a good day for him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Up Next:<\/strong>\u00a0The winner will face the winner of St. Augustine and Gainesville on May 15. Creekside would travel to St. Augustine and host Gainesville.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.staugustine.com\/sports\/20180507\/prep-baseball-st-augustine-creekside-ponte-vedra-begin-playoff-journey\">Prep Baseball: St. Augustine, Creekside, Ponte Vedra begin playoff journey<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Creekside (19-7) at Lake City Columbia (16-12) When:\u00a07 p.m. Potential Starters:\u00a0Creekside \u2014 senior Hunter Bratek or junior Connor Hults will get the baseball. Columbia \u2014 Davion Love (5-4, 2.03) is a senior southpaw who has been the Tigers ace all season. Analysis:\u00a0Creekside hits the road after being stunned by St. Augustine in the District 4-7A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1636,"featured_media":9156,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www-chs.stjohns.k12.fl.us\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www-chs.stjohns.k12.fl.us\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www-chs.stjohns.k12.fl.us\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www-chs.stjohns.k12.fl.us\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1636"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www-chs.stjohns.k12.fl.us\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www-chs.stjohns.k12.fl.us\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9154,"href":"https:\/\/www-chs.stjohns.k12.fl.us\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9153\/revisions\/9154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www-chs.stjohns.k12.fl.us\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www-chs.stjohns.k12.fl.us\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www-chs.stjohns.k12.fl.us\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www-chs.stjohns.k12.fl.us\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}