{"id":2952,"date":"2023-05-27T20:54:18","date_gmt":"2023-05-28T00:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=2952"},"modified":"2023-05-27T20:54:21","modified_gmt":"2023-05-28T00:54:21","slug":"laurent-fires-no-hitter-braves-beat-maconaquah-3-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/27\/laurent-fires-no-hitter-braves-beat-maconaquah-3-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Laurent fires no-hitter; Braves beat Maconaquah 3-0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Eli Laurent threw seven no-hit innings and the Bellmont Braves advanced to the sectional championship game at Oak Hill by beating Maconaquah 3-0 Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/98.158.76.108\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/EdThurmanWithEliLaurentOnSaturday.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Ed Thurman interviewed Bellmont&#8217;s Eli Laurent after he threw a no-hitter and knocked in the winning run Saturday. <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Laurent allowed just three baserunners, all on walks, and struck out ten for the first seven-inning no-hitter of the senior\u2019s career in what could have been his final high school game.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Andrew James led off the first inning with a hit but was gunned down by the Maconaquah catcher, setting the tone for the rest of the game as the Braves were hesitant to test his arm again.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Laurent walked after James was out at second but was stranded at second.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gavin Krull was hit by a pitch to lead off the third, then took second on a sacrifice bunt by Aiden Zimmerman and third on a groundout by James.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That set up Laurent to drive in the eventual winning run in the game with a single.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Braves scored twice more &#8211; once in the fourth after a leadoff walk to Dylan Velez and again in the fifth when James doubled and scored.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bellmont will play Norwell in Monday\u2019s championship game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eli Laurent threw seven no-hit innings and the Bellmont Braves advanced to the sectional championship game at Oak<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2954,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[44,13,15,26],"class_list":["post-2952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-baseball","tag-bellmont","tag-featured","tag-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/DSC_0203-1-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1696&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}