{"id":1297,"date":"2017-05-25T16:55:55","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T21:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rctc.edu\/echo\/?p=1297"},"modified":"2025-09-24T08:10:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T14:10:24","slug":"baseball-team-battled-every-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/baseball-team-battled-every-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Baseball team battled every day&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>By Faith Boyum<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Staff Writer<\/p>\n<p>Faith.Boyum5336@mb.rctc.edu<\/p>\n<p>Though the RCTC baseball team didn&#8217;t meet its goal of winning the Southern Division of the Minnesota Collegiate Athletic Conference, Coach Steve Hucke said there were highlights for the season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I felt the season went well,&#8221; Hucke said. &#8220;We did underachieve, but all in all, I&#8217;m proud of my guys and how they battled every day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1287\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1287\" class=\"wp-image-1287 size-medium\" src=\"\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_5602-200x300.gif\" alt=\"Baseball Pitcher\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1287\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sophomore Jeremy Maschino was one of the mainstays of the pitching staff, making seven starts and three relief appearances. He posted 3-3 record while striking out 22 in 34 innings. (Echo photos by McKayla Ahlrich)<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1288\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1288\" class=\"wp-image-1288 size-medium\" src=\"\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_5780-300x200.gif\" alt=\"Baseball runner\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_5780-300x200.gif 300w, https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_5780-768x512.gif 768w, https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_5780-1024x683.gif 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1288\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ben Boran was named to the MCAC All-Southern Division team. (Echo photos by McKayla Ahlrich)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1294\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1294\" class=\"wp-image-1294 size-medium\" src=\"\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_5756-300x200.gif\" alt=\"First baseman catching ball\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_5756-300x200.gif 300w, https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_5756-768x512.gif 768w, https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_5756-1024x683.gif 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1294\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Freshman first baseman Zeb Render makes a putout against Ellsworth Community College. (Echo photos by McKayla Ahlrich)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Faith Boyum Staff Writer Faith.Boyum5336@mb.rctc.edu Though the RCTC baseball team didn&#8217;t meet its goal of winning the Southern Division of the Minnesota Collegiate Athletic Conference, Coach Steve Hucke said there were highlights for the season. &#8220;I felt the season went well,&#8221; Hucke said. &#8220;We did underachieve, but all in all, I&#8217;m proud of my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}