{"id":36415,"date":"2026-05-06T06:02:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T10:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=36415"},"modified":"2026-05-06T18:02:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T22:02:38","slug":"baker-birdies-twice-on-old-nine-at-cross-creek-in-rain-braves-lose-by-six-to-hn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/06\/baker-birdies-twice-on-old-nine-at-cross-creek-in-rain-braves-lose-by-six-to-hn\/","title":{"rendered":"Baker birdies twice on Old Nine at Cross Creek in rain; Braves lose by six to HN"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Chase Baker birdied old No. 2 and old No. 9 to overcome three bogies for a medalist round of 37, shared with Huntington North&#8217;s No. 3, Ceaten Brubaker, as the Vikings beat the Bellmont Braves in the rain Tuesday, 156 to 162. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Baker played consistently and avoided any doubles, playing cleanly despite the increasing pace of the rain on a night when all the other sporting events in the county were canceled. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/crosscreekdecatur.com\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"76\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/genericcrosscreek.jpg?resize=640%2C76&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6956\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/genericcrosscreek-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C121&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/genericcrosscreek-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C35&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/genericcrosscreek-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C91&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/genericcrosscreek-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C182&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/genericcrosscreek-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C242&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/genericcrosscreek-scaled.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/genericcrosscreek-scaled.jpg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Braves got a 41 from Sam Shifferly and 42s from Jacob Binegar and Kade Cutler, but the four Braves&#8217; scorers (all sophomores) were just short of the Vikings, who put three in the 30s. Shifferly finished the final three holes at one under for a nice finish to the night. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Senior Jack Johnson had a solid round for the JVs with a 47 for Bellmont. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The loss drops the Braves to .500 at 2-2 in the conference. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Varsity Scores<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bellmont (162): Chase Baker 37, Jacob Binegar 42, Cam Summers 51, Kade Cutler 42, Sam Shifferly 41<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Huntington North (156): Jude Davis 41, Cooper Wiley 39, Ceaten Brubaker 37, Ben Roth 44, Griffin Husband 39<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Junior Varsity Scores<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bellmont: Sebastian Heimann 47, Carson Manley 51, Jack Johnson 47, Nolan Leist 58, Luke Heyerly 66<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chase Baker birdied old No. 2 and old No. 9 to overcome three bogies for a medalist round<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36416,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[13,38,26],"class_list":["post-36415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-bellmont","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/DSC_0045.jpg?fit=2464%2C1632&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36415","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=36415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36417,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36415\/revisions\/36417"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}